Exome sequencing in schizophrenia-affected parent–offspring trios reveals risk conferred by protein-coding de novo mutations

DP Howrigan, SA Rose, KE Samocha, M Fromer… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Protein-coding de novo mutations (DNMs) are significant risk factors in many
neurodevelopmental disorders, whereas schizophrenia (SCZ) risk associated with DNMs …

High rate of disease-related copy number variations in childhood onset schizophrenia

K Ahn, N Gotay, TM Andersen, AA Anvari… - Molecular …, 2014 - nature.com
Copy number variants (CNVs) are risk factors in neurodevelopmental disorders, including
autism, epilepsy, intellectual disability (ID) and schizophrenia. Childhood onset …

Exome sequencing followed by large-scale genotyping suggests a limited role for moderately rare risk factors of strong effect in schizophrenia

AC Need, JP McEvoy, M Gennarelli, EL Heinzen… - The American Journal of …, 2012 - cell.com
Schizophrenia is a severe psychiatric disorder with strong heritability and marked
heterogeneity in symptoms, course, and treatment response. There is strong interest in …

Schizophrenia, autism spectrum disorders and developmental disorders share specific disruptive coding mutations

E Rees, HDJ Creeth, HG Hwu, WJ Chen… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
People with schizophrenia are enriched for rare coding variants in genes associated with
neurodevelopmental disorders, particularly autism spectrum disorders and intellectual …

De novo mutations in schizophrenia implicate chromatin remodeling and support a genetic overlap with autism and intellectual disability

SE McCarthy, J Gillis, M Kramer, J Lihm, S Yoon… - Molecular …, 2014 - nature.com
Schizophrenia is a serious psychiatric disorder with a broadly undiscovered genetic
etiology. Recent studies of de novo mutations (DNMs) in schizophrenia and autism have …

Integrated Bayesian analysis of rare exonic variants to identify risk genes for schizophrenia and neurodevelopmental disorders

HT Nguyen, J Bryois, A Kim, A Dobbyn, LM Huckins… - Genome medicine, 2017 - Springer
Background Integrating rare variation from trio family and case–control studies has
successfully implicated specific genes contributing to risk of neurodevelopmental disorders …

Schizophrenia risk conferred by rare protein-truncating variants is conserved across diverse human populations

D Liu, D Meyer, B Fennessy, C Feng, E Cheng… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Schizophrenia (SCZ) is a chronic mental illness and among the most debilitating conditions
encountered in medical practice. A recent landmark SCZ study of the protein-coding regions …

Varying intolerance of gene pathways to mutational classes explain genetic convergence across neuropsychiatric disorders

S Shohat, E Ben-David, S Shifman - Cell reports, 2017 - cell.com
Genetic susceptibility to intellectual disability (ID), autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and
schizophrenia (SCZ) often arises from mutations in the same genes, suggesting that they …

Increased exonic de novo mutation rate in individuals with schizophrenia

SL Girard, J Gauthier, A Noreau, L Xiong, S Zhou… - Nature …, 2011 - nature.com
Schizophrenia is a severe psychiatric disorder that profoundly affects cognitive, behavioral
and emotional processes. The wide spectrum of symptoms and clinical variability in …

Contribution of copy number variants to schizophrenia from a genome-wide study of 41,321 subjects

CR Marshall, DP Howrigan, D Merico… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Copy number variants (CNVs) have been strongly implicated in the genetic etiology of
schizophrenia (SCZ). However, genome-wide investigation of the contribution of CNV to risk …