DNA methylation and schizophrenia: current literature and future perspective

T Magwai, KB Shangase, FO Oginga, B Chiliza… - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
Schizophrenia is a neuropsychiatric disorder characterized by dissociation of thoughts, idea,
identity, and emotions. It has no central pathophysiological mechanism and precise …

A genome-wide association study with 1,126,563 individuals identifies new risk loci for Alzheimer's disease

DP Wightman, IE Jansen, JE Savage, AA Shadrin… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Late-onset Alzheimer's disease is a prevalent age-related polygenic disease that accounts
for 50–70% of dementia cases. Currently, only a fraction of the genetic variants underlying …

A compendium of uniformly processed human gene expression and splicing quantitative trait loci

N Kerimov, JD Hayhurst, K Peikova, JR Manning… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Many gene expression quantitative trait locus (eQTL) studies have published their summary
statistics, which can be used to gain insight into complex human traits by downstream …

Genome-wide meta-analysis, fine-mapping and integrative prioritization implicate new Alzheimer's disease risk genes

J Schwartzentruber, S Cooper, JZ Liu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies have discovered numerous genomic loci associated with
Alzheimer's disease (AD); yet the causal genes and variants are incompletely identified. We …

Transcriptome-scale spatial gene expression in the human dorsolateral prefrontal cortex

KR Maynard, L Collado-Torres, LM Weber… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
We used the 10x Genomics Visium platform to define the spatial topography of gene
expression in the six-layered human dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. We identified extensive …

Transcriptomic organization of the human brain in post-traumatic stress disorder

MJ Girgenti, J Wang, D Ji, DA Cruz, MB Stein… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Despite extensive study of the neurobiological correlates of post-traumatic stress disorder
(PTSD), little is known about its molecular determinants. Here, differential gene expression …

How do established developmental risk-factors for schizophrenia change the way the brain develops?

DW Eyles - Translational Psychiatry, 2021 - nature.com
The recognition that schizophrenia is a disorder of neurodevelopment is widely accepted.
The original hypothesis was coined more than 30 years ago and the wealth of supportive …

Genome-wide sequencing-based identification of methylation quantitative trait loci and their role in schizophrenia risk

KA Perzel Mandell, NJ Eagles, R Wilton… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
DNA methylation (DNAm) is an epigenetic regulator of gene expression and a hallmark of
gene-environment interaction. Using whole-genome bisulfite sequencing, we have surveyed …

Genome-wide landscape of RNA-binding protein target site dysregulation reveals a major impact on psychiatric disorder risk

CY Park, J Zhou, AK Wong, KM Chen, CL Theesfeld… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Despite the strong genetic basis of psychiatric disorders, the underlying molecular
mechanisms are largely unmapped. RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) are responsible for most …

D-cysteine is an endogenous regulator of neural progenitor cell dynamics in the mammalian brain

ER Semenza, MM Harraz… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
d-amino acids are increasingly recognized as important signaling molecules in the
mammalian central nervous system. However, the d-stereoisomer of the amino acid with the …