Identifying relationships among genomic disease regions: predicting genes at pathogenic SNP associations and rare deletions

S Raychaudhuri, RM Plenge, EJ Rossin, ACY Ng… - PLoS …, 2009 - journals.plos.org
Translating a set of disease regions into insight about pathogenic mechanisms requires not
only the ability to identify the key disease genes within them, but also the biological …

Accurately assessing the risk of schizophrenia conferred by rare copy-number variation affecting genes with brain function

S Raychaudhuri, JM Korn, SA McCarroll… - PLoS …, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Investigators have linked rare copy number variation (CNVs) to neuropsychiatric diseases,
such as schizophrenia. One hypothesis is that CNV events cause disease by affecting genes …

Boosting the power of schizophrenia genetics by leveraging new statistical tools

OA Andreassen, WK Thompson… - Schizophrenia …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified a large number of gene variants
associated with schizophrenia, but these variants explain only a small portion of the …

A genome-wide investigation of SNPs and CNVs in schizophrenia

AC Need, D Ge, ME Weale, J Maia, S Feng… - PLoS …, 2009 - journals.plos.org
We report a genome-wide assessment of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and copy
number variants (CNVs) in schizophrenia. We investigated SNPs using 871 patients and …

Transcriptome study of differential expression in schizophrenia

AR Sanders, HHH Göring, J Duan… - Human molecular …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Schizophrenia genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified common SNPs,
rare copy number variants (CNVs) and a large polygenic contribution to illness risk, but …

Suggestion of roles for both common and rare risk variants in genome-wide studies of schizophrenia

MJ Owen, N Craddock… - Archives of general …, 2010 - jamanetwork.com
This article reviews recent genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of schizophrenia and
considers future research directions. Until recently, genome-wide scans for dis-ease risk …

[PDF][PDF] Improved detection of common variants associated with schizophrenia by leveraging pleiotropy with cardiovascular-disease risk factors

OA Andreassen, S Djurovic, WK Thompson… - The American Journal of …, 2013 - cell.com
Several lines of evidence suggest that genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have the
potential to explain more of the" missing heritability" of common complex phenotypes …

Linking disease associations with regulatory information in the human genome

MA Schaub, AP Boyle, A Kundaje, S Batzoglou… - Genome …, 2012 - genome.cshlp.org
Genome-wide association studies have been successful in identifying single nucleotide
polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with a large number of phenotypes. However, an …

A Bayesian framework that integrates multi-omics data and gene networks predicts risk genes from schizophrenia GWAS data

Q Wang, R Chen, F Cheng, Q Wei, Y Ji, H Yang… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified more than 100 schizophrenia
(SCZ)-associated loci, but using these findings to illuminate disease biology remains a …

Genome-wide association studies of schizophrenia: does bigger lead to better results?

SE Bergen, TL Petryshen - Current opinion in psychiatry, 2012 - journals.lww.com
Identifying the genetic underpinnings of complex diseases offers insight into the etiological
mechanisms leading to manifestation of the disease. New and more effective treatments for …