Epigenetic mechanisms in schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders: a systematic review of empirical human findings

L Smigielski, V Jagannath, W Rössler, S Walitza… - Molecular …, 2020 - nature.com
Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders are highly debilitating psychiatric conditions
that lack a clear etiology and exhibit polygenic inheritance underlain by pleiotropic genes …

Epigenomic dysregulation in schizophrenia: in search of disease etiology and biomarkers

B Khavari, MJ Cairns - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
Schizophrenia is a severe psychiatric disorder with a complex array of signs and symptoms
that causes very significant disability in young people. While schizophrenia has a strong …

Genome-wide DNA methylation analysis of human brain tissue from schizophrenia patients

LF Wockner, EP Noble, BR Lawford… - Translational …, 2014 - nature.com
Recent studies suggest that genetic and environmental factors do not account for all the
schizophrenia risk, and epigenetics also has a role in disease susceptibility. DNA …

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 …

Can epigenetics shine a light on the biological pathways underlying major mental disorders?

L Alameda, G Trotta, H Quigley, V Rodriguez… - Psychological …, 2022 - cambridge.org
A significant proportion of the global burden of disease can be attributed to mental illness.
Despite important advances in identifying risk factors for mental health conditions, the …

The effects of DNA methylation on human psychology

F Kader, M Ghai, L Maharaj - Behavioural brain research, 2018 - Elsevier
DNA methylation is a fundamental epigenetic modification in the human genome; pivotal in
development, genomic imprinting, X inactivation, chromosome stability, gene expression …

Correlation between DNA methylation and gene expression in the brains of patients with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia

C Chen, C Zhang, L Cheng, JL Reilly… - Bipolar …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives Aberrant DNA methylation and gene expression have been reported in
postmortem brain tissues of psychotic patients, but until now there has been no systematic …

DNA methylation in peripheral tissue of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder: a systematic review

N Teroganova, L Girshkin, CM Suter, MJ Green - BMC genetics, 2016 - Springer
Background Increasing evidence suggests the involvement of epigenetic processes in the
development of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, and recent reviews have focused on …

DNA methylation and psychiatric disorders

C Liu, C Jiao, K Wang, N Yuan - Progress in molecular biology and …, 2018 - Elsevier
DNA methylation has been an important area of research in the study of molecular
mechanism to psychiatric disorders. Recent evidence has suggested that abnormalities in …

mGluR2 versus mGluR3 metabotropic glutamate receptors in primate dorsolateral prefrontal cortex: postsynaptic mGluR3 strengthen working memory networks

LE Jin, M Wang, VC Galvin, TC Lightbourne… - Cerebral …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The newly evolved circuits in layer III of primate dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC)
generate the neural representations that subserve working memory. These circuits are …