Advancing the understanding of autism disease mechanisms through genetics

L de la Torre-Ubieta, H Won, JL Stein… - Nature medicine, 2016 - nature.com
Progress in understanding the genetic etiology of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) has
fueled remarkable advances in our understanding of its potential neurobiological …

Effects of cannabis use on human behavior, including cognition, motivation, and psychosis: a review

ND Volkow, JM Swanson, AE Evins, LE DeLisi… - JAMA …, 2016 - jamanetwork.com
With a political debate about the potential risks and benefits of cannabis use as a backdrop,
the wave of legalization and liberalization initiatives continues to spread. Four states …

Schizophrenia risk from complex variation of complement component 4

A Sekar, AR Bialas, H De Rivera, A Davis… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Schizophrenia is a heritable brain illness with unknown pathogenic mechanisms.
Schizophrenia's strongest genetic association at a population level involves variation in the …

A meta-analysis of blood cytokine network alterations in psychiatric patients: comparisons between schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and depression

DR Goldsmith, MH Rapaport, BJ Miller - Molecular psychiatry, 2016 - nature.com
Schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder (MDD) have all been
associated with aberrant blood cytokine levels; however, neither the pattern of cytokine …

Identification of 15 genetic loci associated with risk of major depression in individuals of European descent

CL Hyde, MW Nagle, C Tian, X Chen, SA Paciga… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Despite strong evidence supporting the heritability of major depressive disorder (MDD),
previous genome-wide studies were unable to identify risk loci among individuals of …

Genome-wide changes in lncRNA, splicing, and regional gene expression patterns in autism

NN Parikshak, V Swarup, TG Belgard, M Irimia… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) involves substantial genetic contributions. These
contributions are profoundly heterogeneous but may converge on common pathways that …

Developing and evaluating polygenic risk prediction models for stratified disease prevention

N Chatterjee, J Shi, M García-Closas - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2016 - nature.com
Abstract Knowledge of genetics and its implications for human health is rapidly evolving in
accordance with recent events, such as discoveries of large numbers of disease …

Detection and interpretation of shared genetic influences on 42 human traits

JK Pickrell, T Berisa, JZ Liu, L Ségurel, JY Tung… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
We performed a scan for genetic variants associated with multiple phenotypes by comparing
large genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of 42 traits or diseases. We identified 341 …

Chromosome conformation elucidates regulatory relationships in developing human brain

H Won, L de La Torre-Ubieta, JL Stein, NN Parikshak… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Three-dimensional physical interactions within chromosomes dynamically regulate gene
expression in a tissue-specific manner,,. However, the 3D organization of chromosomes …

Two-sample Mendelian randomization: avoiding the downsides of a powerful, widely applicable but potentially fallible technique

FP Hartwig, NM Davies, G Hemani… - International journal …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Mendelian randomization studies are often performed in an instrumental variables
framework, using germline genetic variants as instruments for modifiable disease risk factors …