An integrated genetic-epigenetic analysis of schizophrenia: evidence for co-localization of genetic associations and differential DNA methylation

E Hannon, E Dempster, J Viana, J Burrage, AR Smith… - Genome biology, 2016 - Springer
Background Schizophrenia is a highly heritable, neuropsychiatric disorder characterized by
episodic psychosis and altered cognitive function. Despite success in identifying genetic …

Epigenetic basis of mental illness

EJ Nestler, CJ Peña, M Kundakovic… - The …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Psychiatric disorders are complex multifactorial illnesses involving chronic alterations in
neural circuit structure and function as well as likely abnormalities in glial cells. While …

Genome-wide association analyses identify 44 risk variants and refine the genetic architecture of major depression

NR Wray, S Ripke, M Mattheisen, M Trzaskowski… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a common illness accompanied by considerable
morbidity, mortality, costs, and heightened risk of suicide. We conducted a genome-wide …

A genome-wide association study of shared risk across psychiatric disorders implicates gene regulation during fetal neurodevelopment

AJ Schork, H Won, V Appadurai, R Nudel… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
There is mounting evidence that seemingly diverse psychiatric disorders share genetic
etiology, but the biological substrates mediating this overlap are not well characterized. Here …

Hidden wounds? Inflammatory links between childhood trauma and psychopathology

A Danese, JR Baldwin - Annual review of psychology, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Childhood trauma is a key risk factor for psychopathology. However, little is known about
how exposure to childhood trauma is translated into biological risk for psychopathology …

Neuron-specific signatures in the chromosomal connectome associated with schizophrenia risk

P Rajarajan, T Borrman, W Liao, N Schrode, E Flaherty… - Science, 2018 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Chromosomal conformations, topologically associated chromatin domains
(TADs) assembling in nested fashion across hundreds of kilobases, and other “three …

Computational psychiatry: towards a mathematically informed understanding of mental illness

RA Adams, QJM Huys, JP Roiser - Journal of Neurology …, 2016 - jnnp.bmj.com
Computational Psychiatry aims to describe the relationship between the brain's
neurobiology, its environment and mental symptoms in computational terms. In so doing, it …

The contribution of rare variants to risk of schizophrenia in individuals with and without intellectual disability

T Singh, JTR Walters, M Johnstone, D Curtis… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
By performing a meta-analysis of rare coding variants in whole-exome sequences from
4,133 schizophrenia cases and 9,274 controls, de novo mutations in 1,077 family trios, and …

The emerging tale of microglia in psychiatric disorders

R Rahimian, M Wakid, LA O'Leary… - … & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
As the professional phagocytes of the brain, microglia orchestrate the immunological
response and play an increasingly important role in maintaining homeostatic brain functions …

Synergistic effects of common schizophrenia risk variants

N Schrode, SM Ho, K Yamamuro, A Dobbyn… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The mechanisms by which common risk variants of small effect interact to contribute to
complex genetic disorders are unclear. Here, we apply a genetic approach, using isogenic …