Genetic architecture: the shape of the genetic contribution to human traits and disease

NJ Timpson, CMT Greenwood, N Soranzo… - Nature Reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
Genetic architecture describes the characteristics of genetic variation that are responsible for
heritable phenotypic variability. It depends on the number of genetic variants affecting a trait …

Genomic findings in schizophrenia and their implications

MJ Owen, SE Legge, E Rees, JTR Walters… - Molecular …, 2023 - nature.com
There has been substantial progress in understanding the genetics of schizophrenia over
the past 15 years. This has revealed a highly polygenic condition with the majority of the …

Exome sequencing in bipolar disorder identifies AKAP11 as a risk gene shared with schizophrenia

DS Palmer, DP Howrigan, SB Chapman, R Adolfsson… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
We report results from the Bipolar Exome (BipEx) collaboration analysis of whole-exome
sequencing of 13,933 patients with bipolar disorder (BD) matched with 14,422 controls. We …

Biological insights from 108 schizophrenia-associated genetic loci

C Pantelis, GN Papadimitriou, S Papiol… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Schizophrenia is a highly heritable disorder. Genetic risk is conferred by a large number of
alleles, including common alleles of small effect that might be detected by genome-wide …

[HTML][HTML] Biological insights from 108 schizophrenia-associated genetic loci

S Ripke, BM Neale, A Corvin, JTR Walters, KH Farh… - Nature, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Schizophrenia is a highly heritable disorder. Genetic risk is conferred by a large number of
alleles, including common alleles of small effect that might be detected by genome-wide …

Identification of risk loci with shared effects on five major psychiatric disorders: a genome-wide analysis

Cross-Disorder Group of the Psychiatric Genomics … - The Lancet, 2013 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Findings from family and twin studies suggest that genetic contributions to
psychiatric disorders do not in all cases map to present diagnostic categories. We aimed to …

Neuregulin-ERBB signaling in the nervous system and neuropsychiatric diseases

L Mei, KA Nave - Neuron, 2014 - cell.com
Neuregulins (NRGs) comprise a large family of growth factors that stimulate ERBB receptor
tyrosine kinases. NRGs and their receptors, ERBBs, have been identified as susceptibility …

Genetic architectures of psychiatric disorders: the emerging picture and its implications

PF Sullivan, MJ Daly, M O'donovan - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2012 - nature.com
Psychiatric disorders are among the most intractable enigmas in medicine. In the past 5
years, there has been unprecedented progress on the genetics of many of these conditions …

The polygenic architecture of schizophrenia—rethinking pathogenesis and nosology

OB Smeland, O Frei, AM Dale… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Schizophrenia is a severe psychiatric disorder with considerable morbidity and mortality.
Although the past two decades have seen limited improvement in the treatment of …

The ENIGMA Consortium: large-scale collaborative analyses of neuroimaging and genetic data

PM Thompson, JL Stein, SE Medland, DP Hibar… - Brain imaging and …, 2014 - Springer
Abstract The Enhancing NeuroImaging Genetics through Meta-Analysis (ENIGMA)
Consortium is a collaborative network of researchers working together on a range of large …