Candidate biomarkers in psychiatric disorders: state of the field

A Abi‐Dargham, SJ Moeller, F Ali… - World …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The field of psychiatry is hampered by a lack of robust, reliable and valid biomarkers that can
aid in objectively diagnosing patients and providing individualized treatment …

Neurodevelopmental disorders: from genetics to functional pathways

I Parenti, LG Rabaneda, H Schoen, G Novarino - Trends in Neurosciences, 2020 - cell.com
Neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) are a class of disorders affecting brain development
and function and are characterized by wide genetic and clinical variability. In this review, we …

Autism genes converge on asynchronous development of shared neuron classes

B Paulsen, S Velasco, AJ Kedaigle, M Pigoni… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Genetic risk for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is associated with hundreds of genes
spanning a wide range of biological functions,,,,–. The alterations in the human brain …

[HTML][HTML] Single-cell epigenomics reveals mechanisms of human cortical development

RS Ziffra, CN Kim, JM Ross, A Wilfert, TN Turner… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
During mammalian development, differences in chromatin state coincide with cellular
differentiation and reflect changes in the gene regulatory landscape. In the developing brain …

The contributions of rare inherited and polygenic risk to ASD in multiplex families

M Cirnigliaro, TS Chang, SA Arteaga… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has a complex genetic architecture involving contributions
from both de novo and inherited variation. Few studies have been designed to address the …

PhenoScore quantifies phenotypic variation for rare genetic diseases by combining facial analysis with other clinical features using a machine-learning framework

AJM Dingemans, M Hinne, KMG Truijen, L Goltstein… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Several molecular and phenotypic algorithms exist that establish genotype–phenotype
correlations, including facial recognition tools. However, no unified framework that …

Genetic causes and modifiers of autism spectrum disorder

L Rylaarsdam, A Guemez-Gamboa - Frontiers in cellular …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is one of the most prevalent neurodevelopmental
disorders, affecting an estimated 1 in 59 children. ASD is highly genetically heterogeneous …

Macroautophagy in CNS health and disease

CJ Griffey, A Yamamoto - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2022 - nature.com
Macroautophagy is an evolutionarily conserved process that delivers diverse cellular
contents to lysosomes for degradation. As our understanding of this pathway grows, so does …

Establishing cerebral organoids as models of human-specific brain evolution

AA Pollen, A Bhaduri, MG Andrews, TJ Nowakowski… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Direct comparisons of human and non-human primate brains can reveal molecular
pathways underlying remarkable specializations of the human brain. However, chimpanzee …

Genome-wide association analyses of risk tolerance and risky behaviors in over 1 million individuals identify hundreds of loci and shared genetic influences

R Karlsson Linnér, P Biroli, E Kong, SFW Meddens… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Humans vary substantially in their willingness to take risks. In a combined sample of over 1
million individuals, we conducted genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of general risk …