A meta‐review of “lifestyle psychiatry”: the role of exercise, smoking, diet and sleep in the prevention and treatment of mental disorders

J Firth, M Solmi, RE Wootton, D Vancampfort… - World …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
There is increasing academic and clinical interest in how “lifestyle factors” traditionally
associated with physical health may also relate to mental health and psychological well …

Tutorial: a guide to performing polygenic risk score analyses

SW Choi, TSH Mak, PF O'Reilly - Nature protocols, 2020 - nature.com
A polygenic score (PGS) or polygenic risk score (PRS) is an estimate of an individual's
genetic liability to a trait or disease, calculated according to their genotype profile and …

Multi-trait analysis for genome-wide association study of five psychiatric disorders

Y Wu, H Cao, A Baranova, H Huang, S Li, L Cai… - Translational …, 2020 - nature.com
We conducted a cross-trait meta-analysis of genome-wide association study on
schizophrenia (SCZ)(n= 65,967), bipolar disorder (BD)(n= 41,653), autism spectrum …

Validity and utility of hierarchical taxonomy of psychopathology (HiTOP): I. Psychosis superspectrum

R Kotov, KG Jonas, WT Carpenter, MN Dretsch… - World …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) is a scientific effort to address
shortcomings of traditional mental disorder diagnoses, which suffer from arbitrary …

The genetics of bipolar disorder

FJA Gordovez, FJ McMahon - Molecular psychiatry, 2020 - nature.com
Bipolar disorder (BD) is one of the most heritable mental illnesses, but the elucidation of its
genetic basis has proven to be a very challenging endeavor. Genome-Wide Association …

Risk prediction of late-onset Alzheimer's disease implies an oligogenic architecture

Q Zhang, J Sidorenko, B Couvy-Duchesne… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Genetic association studies have identified 44 common genome-wide significant risk loci for
late-onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD). However, LOAD genetic architecture and prediction …

Genome-wide analysis reveals extensive genetic overlap between schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and intelligence

OB Smeland, S Bahrami, O Frei, A Shadrin… - Molecular …, 2020 - nature.com
Schizophrenia (SCZ) and bipolar disorder (BD) are severe mental disorders associated with
cognitive impairment, which is considered a major determinant of functional outcome …

The polygenic architecture of schizophrenia—rethinking pathogenesis and nosology

OB Smeland, O Frei, AM Dale… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Schizophrenia is a severe psychiatric disorder with considerable morbidity and mortality.
Although the past two decades have seen limited improvement in the treatment of …

Polygenic risk score contribution to psychosis prediction in a target population of persons at clinical high risk

DO Perkins, L Olde Loohuis, J Barbee… - American Journal of …, 2020 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective: The 2-year risk of psychosis in persons who meet research criteria for a high-risk
syndrome is about 15%− 25%; improvements in risk prediction accuracy would benefit the …

The effect of LRRK2 loss-of-function variants in humans

N Whiffin, IM Armean, A Kleinman, JL Marshall… - Nature Medicine, 2020 - nature.com
Human genetic variants predicted to cause loss-of-function of protein-coding genes (pLoF
variants) provide natural in vivo models of human gene inactivation and can be valuable …