Systems biology and gene networks in neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders

NN Parikshak, MJ Gandal, DH Geschwind - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2015 - nature.com
Genetic and genomic approaches have implicated hundreds of genetic loci in
neurodevelopmental disorders and neurodegeneration, but mechanistic understanding …

Beyond modules and hubs: the potential of gene coexpression networks for investigating molecular mechanisms of complex brain disorders

C Gaiteri, Y Ding, B French, GC Tseng… - Genes, brain and …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
In a research environment dominated by reductionist approaches to brain disease
mechanisms, gene network analysis provides a complementary framework in which to tackle …

Transcriptome-wide isoform-level dysregulation in ASD, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder

MJ Gandal, P Zhang, E Hadjimichael, RL Walker… - Science, 2018 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Our understanding of the pathophysiology of psychiatric disorders,
including autism spectrum disorder (ASD), schizophrenia (SCZ), and bipolar disorder (BD) …

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 …

Shared molecular neuropathology across major psychiatric disorders parallels polygenic overlap

MJ Gandal, JR Haney, NN Parikshak, V Leppa… - Science, 2018 - science.org
The predisposition to neuropsychiatric disease involves a complex, polygenic, and
pleiotropic genetic architecture. However, little is known about how genetic variants impart …

Gene expression elucidates functional impact of polygenic risk for schizophrenia

M Fromer, P Roussos, SK Sieberts, JS Johnson… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Over 100 genetic loci harbor schizophrenia-associated variants, yet how these variants
confer liability is uncertain. The CommonMind Consortium sequenced RNA from …

The phenotypic legacy of admixture between modern humans and Neandertals

CN Simonti, B Vernot, L Bastarache, E Bottinger… - Science, 2016 - science.org
Many modern human genomes retain DNA inherited from interbreeding with archaic
hominins, such as Neandertals, yet the influence of this admixture on human traits is largely …

Neurodevelopment, GABA system dysfunction, and schizophrenia

MJ Schmidt, K Mirnics - Neuropsychopharmacology, 2015 - nature.com
The origins of schizophrenia have eluded clinicians and researchers since Kraepelin and
Bleuler began documenting their findings. However, large clinical research efforts in recent …

Gene networks specific for innate immunity define post-traumatic stress disorder

MS Breen, AX Maihofer, SJ Glatt, DS Tylee… - Molecular …, 2015 - nature.com
The molecular factors involved in the development of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
(PTSD) remain poorly understood. Previous transcriptomic studies investigating the …

[HTML][HTML] Transcriptomic evidence for alterations in astrocytes and parvalbumin interneurons in subjects with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia

L Toker, BO Mancarci, S Tripathy, P Pavlidis - Biological psychiatry, 2018 - Elsevier
Background High-throughput expression analyses of postmortem brain tissue have been
widely used to study bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. However, despite the extensive …