CNVs: harbingers of a rare variant revolution in psychiatric genetics

D Malhotra, J Sebat - Cell, 2012 - cell.com
The genetic bases of neuropsychiatric disorders are beginning to yield to scientific inquiry.
Genome-wide studies of copy number variation (CNV) have given rise to a new …

[HTML][HTML] Serotonin in the modulation of neural plasticity and networks: implications for neurodevelopmental disorders

KP Lesch, J Waider - Neuron, 2012 - cell.com
Serotonin (5-HT) shapes brain networks during development and modulates a wide
spectrum of essential neuronal functions ranging from perception and cognitive appraisal to …

ADHD and autism: differential diagnosis or overlapping traits? A selective review

R Taurines, C Schwenck, E Westerwald… - ADHD Attention Deficit …, 2012 - Springer
Abstract According to DSM-IV TR and ICD-10, a diagnosis of autism or Asperger Syndrome
precludes a diagnosis of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). However, despite …

Synaptopathies: diseases of the synaptome

SGN Grant - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2012 - Elsevier
The human synapse proteome is a highly complex collection of proteins that is disrupted by
hundreds of gene mutations causing over 100 brain diseases. These synaptic diseases, or …

[HTML][HTML] Copy-number disorders are a common cause of congenital kidney malformations

S Sanna-Cherchi, K Kiryluk, KE Burgess… - The American Journal of …, 2012 - cell.com
We examined the burden of large, rare, copy-number variants (CNVs) in 192 individuals with
renal hypodysplasia (RHD) and replicated findings in 330 RHD cases from two independent …

Next-generation treatments for mental disorders

TR Insel - Science translational medicine, 2012 - science.org
There has been a steady retreat by the private sector away from developing medications for
mental disorders. This retreat comes just as research is identifying new molecular targets …

[HTML][HTML] Phasing of many thousands of genotyped samples

AL Williams, N Patterson, J Glessner… - The American Journal of …, 2012 - cell.com
Haplotypes are an important resource for a large number of applications in human genetics,
but computationally inferred haplotypes are subject to switch errors that decrease their utility …

TNiK is required for postsynaptic and nuclear signaling pathways and cognitive function

MP Coba, NH Komiyama… - Journal of …, 2012 - Soc Neuroscience
Traf2 and NcK interacting kinase (TNiK) contains serine-threonine kinase and scaffold
domains and has been implicated in cell proliferation and glutamate receptor regulation in …

Confluence of genes, environment, development, and behavior in a post Genome-Wide Association Study world

SI Vrieze, WG Iacono, M McGue - Development and …, 2012 - cambridge.org
This article serves to outline a research paradigm to investigate main effects and interactions
of genes, environment, and development on behavior and psychiatric illness. We provide a …

Small rare recurrent deletions and reciprocal duplications in 2q21.1, including brain-specific ARHGEF4 and GPR148

AV Dharmadhikari, SHL Kang… - Human molecular …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
We have identified a rare small (∼ 450 kb unique sequence) recurrent deletion in a
previously linked attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) locus at 2q21. 1 in five …