15 years of GWAS discovery: realizing the promise

A Abdellaoui, L Yengo, KJH Verweij… - The American Journal of …, 2023 - cell.com
It has been 15 years since the advent of the genome-wide association study (GWAS) era.
Here, we review how this experimental design has realized its promise by facilitating an …

The genetic basis of major depressive disorder

J Flint - Molecular psychiatry, 2023 - nature.com
The genetic dissection of major depressive disorder (MDD) ranks as one of the success
stories of psychiatric genetics, with genome-wide association studies (GWAS) identifying …

New insights from the last decade of research in psychiatric genetics: discoveries, challenges and clinical implications

OA Andreassen, GFL Hindley, O Frei… - World …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Psychiatric genetics has made substantial progress in the last decade, providing new
insights into the genetic etiology of psychiatric disorders, and paving the way for precision …

Multi-ancestry genome-wide association study of major depression aids locus discovery, fine mapping, gene prioritization and causal inference

X Meng, G Navoly, O Giannakopoulou, DF Levey… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Most genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of major depression (MD) have been
conducted in samples of European ancestry. Here we report a multi-ancestry GWAS of MD …

Ten challenges for clinical translation in psychiatric genetics

EM Derks, JG Thorp, ZF Gerring - Nature Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies have identified hundreds of robust genetic associations
underlying psychiatric disorders and provided important biological insights into disease …

A single-cell transcriptome atlas of glial diversity in the human hippocampus across the postnatal lifespan

Y Su, Y Zhou, ML Bennett, S Li, M Carceles-Cordon… - Cell Stem Cell, 2022 - cell.com
The molecular diversity of glia in the human hippocampus and their temporal dynamics over
the lifespan remain largely unknown. Here, we performed single-nucleus RNA sequencing …

Behavioural genetics methods

EA Willoughby, TJC Polderman… - Nature Reviews Methods …, 2023 - nature.com
The question of why people show individual differences in their behaviours and capacities
has intrigued researchers for centuries. Behaviour genetics offers us various methods to …

Genotyping and population characteristics of the China Kadoorie Biobank

RG Walters, IY Millwood, K Lin, DS Valle, P McDonnell… - Cell Genomics, 2023 - cell.com
Summary The China Kadoorie Biobank (CKB) is a population-based prospective cohort of>
512,000 adults recruited from 2004 to 2008 from 10 geographically diverse regions across …

[HTML][HTML] The brain-gut-microbiota interplay in depression: A key to design innovative therapeutic approaches

A Varesi, LIM Campagnoli, S Chirumbolo… - Pharmacological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Depression is the most prevalent mental disorder in the world associated with huge socio-
economic consequences. While depressive-related symptoms are well known, the …

White matter dysfunction in psychiatric disorders is associated with neurotransmitter and genetic profiles

GJ Ji, J Sun, Q Hua, L Zhang, T Zhang, T Bai… - Nature Mental …, 2023 - nature.com
Functional changes of white matter are largely unexplored in patients with psychiatric
disorders. This study examined white matter dysfunctions common in four major psychiatric …