[HTML][HTML] Genetic associations between voltage-gated calcium channels and psychiatric disorders

A Andrade, A Brennecke, S Mallat, J Brown… - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Psychiatric disorders are mental, behavioral or emotional disorders. These conditions are
prevalent, one in four adults suffer from any type of psychiatric disorders world-wide. It has …

Unravelling the genetic basis of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder with GWAS: A systematic review

DP Prata, B Costa-Neves, G Cosme… - Journal of psychiatric …, 2019 - Elsevier
Objectives To systematically review findings of GWAS in schizophrenia (SZ) and in bipolar
disorder (BD); and to interpret findings, with a focus on identifying independent replications …

Identification of common genetic risk variants for autism spectrum disorder

J Grove, S Ripke, TD Als, M Mattheisen, RK Walters… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a highly heritable and heterogeneous group of
neurodevelopmental phenotypes diagnosed in more than 1% of children. Common genetic …

Genome-wide association study identifies 30 loci associated with bipolar disorder

EA Stahl, G Breen, AJ Forstner, A McQuillin, S Ripke… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Bipolar disorder is a highly heritable psychiatric disorder. We performed a genome-wide
association study (GWAS) including 20,352 cases and 31,358 controls of European descent …

[PDF][PDF] SynGO: an evidence-based, expert-curated knowledge base for the synapse

F Koopmans, P van Nierop, M Andres-Alonso… - Neuron, 2019 - cell.com
Synapses are fundamental information-processing units of the brain, and synaptic
dysregulation is central to many brain disorders (" synaptopathies"). However, systematic …

Genome-wide association analyses of risk tolerance and risky behaviors in over 1 million individuals identify hundreds of loci and shared genetic influences

R Karlsson Linnér, P Biroli, E Kong, SFW Meddens… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Humans vary substantially in their willingness to take risks. In a combined sample of over 1
million individuals, we conducted genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of general risk …

Comparative genetic architectures of schizophrenia in East Asian and European populations

M Lam, CY Chen, Z Li, AR Martin, J Bryois, X Ma… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Schizophrenia is a debilitating psychiatric disorder with approximately 1% lifetime risk
globally. Large-scale schizophrenia genetic studies have reported primarily on European …

[HTML][HTML] International meta-analysis of PTSD genome-wide association studies identifies sex-and ancestry-specific genetic risk loci

CM Nievergelt, AX Maihofer, T Klengel… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The risk of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) following trauma is heritable, but robust
common variants have yet to be identified. In a multi-ethnic cohort including over 30,000 …

Large-scale GWAS reveals insights into the genetic architecture of same-sex sexual behavior

A Ganna, KJH Verweij, MG Nivard, R Maier, R Wedow… - Science, 2019 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Across human societies and in both sexes, some 2 to 10% of individuals
report engaging in sex with same-sex partners, either exclusively or in addition to sex with …

Association of genetic risk factors for psychiatric disorders and traits of these disorders in a Swedish population twin sample

MJ Taylor, J Martin, Y Lu, I Brikell, S Lundström… - JAMA …, 2019 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Psychiatric traits associated with categorically defined psychiatric disorders are
heritable and present to varying degrees in the general population. It is commonly assumed …