Shared genetic architecture between schizophrenia and subcortical brain volumes implicates early neurodevelopmental processes and brain development in …

W Cheng, D van der Meer, N Parker, G Hindley… - Molecular …, 2022 - nature.com
Patients with schizophrenia have consistently shown brain volumetric abnormalities,
implicating both etiological and pathological processes. However, the genetic relationship …

Genetic overlap between schizophrenia and volumes of hippocampus, putamen, and intracranial volume indicates shared molecular genetic mechanisms

OB Smeland, Y Wang, O Frei, W Li… - Schizophrenia …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Schizophrenia (SCZ) is associated with differences in subcortical brain volumes and
intracranial volume (ICV). However, little is known about the underlying etiology of these …

Genetic influences on schizophrenia and subcortical brain volumes: large-scale proof of concept

B Franke, JL Stein, S Ripke, V Anttila, DP Hibar… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Schizophrenia is a devastating psychiatric illness with high heritability. Brain structure and
function differ, on average, between people with schizophrenia and healthy individuals. As …

Genetic association between schizophrenia and cortical brain surface area and thickness

W Cheng, O Frei, D van der Meer, Y Wang… - JAMA …, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Schizophrenia is a complex heritable disorder associated with many genetic
variants, each with a small effect. While cortical differences between patients with …

Partitioning heritability analysis reveals a shared genetic basis of brain anatomy and schizophrenia

PH Lee, JT Baker, AJ Holmes, N Jahanshad, T Ge… - Molecular …, 2016 - nature.com
Schizophrenia is a devastating neurodevelopmental disorder with a complex genetic
etiology. Widespread cortical gray matter loss has been observed in patients and prodromal …

Genetic correlations between subcortical brain volumes and psychiatric disorders

K Ohi, T Shimada, Y Kataoka, T Yasuyama… - The British Journal of …, 2020 - cambridge.org
Psychiatric disorders as well as subcortical brain volumes are highly heritable. Large-scale
genome-wide association studies (GWASs) for these traits have been performed. We …

Association of a schizophrenia-risk nonsynonymous variant with putamen volume in adolescents: a voxelwise and genome-wide association study

Q Luo, Q Chen, W Wang, S Desrivières… - JAMA …, 2019 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Deviation from normal adolescent brain development precedes manifestations
of many major psychiatric symptoms. Such altered developmental trajectories in adolescents …

Genetic schizophrenia risk variants jointly modulate total brain and white matter volume

AFT Van Scheltinga, SC Bakker, NEM Van Haren… - Biological …, 2013 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Thousands of common single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are
weakly associated with schizophrenia. It is likely that subsets of disease-associated SNPs …

Heritability of subcortical and limbic brain volume and shape in multiplex-multigenerational families with schizophrenia

DR Roalf, SN Vandekar, L Almasy, K Ruparel… - Biological …, 2015 - Elsevier
Background Brain abnormalities of subcortical and limbic nuclei are common in patients with
schizophrenia, and variation in these structures is considered a putative endophenotype for …

Predicting brain structure in population‐based samples with biologically informed genetic scores for schizophrenia

S Van der Auwera, K Wittfeld… - American Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Schizophrenia is associated with brain structural abnormalities including gray and white
matter volume reductions. Whether these alterations are caused by genetic risk variants for …