Genetic causes and modifiers of autism spectrum disorder

L Rylaarsdam, A Guemez-Gamboa - Frontiers in cellular …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is one of the most prevalent neurodevelopmental
disorders, affecting an estimated 1 in 59 children. ASD is highly genetically heterogeneous …

Analysis of shared heritability in common disorders of the brain

Brainstorm Consortium, V Anttila, B Bulik-Sullivan… - Science, 2018 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Brain disorders may exhibit shared symptoms and substantial
epidemiological comorbidity, inciting debate about their etiologic overlap. However, detailed …

Genetic variants associated with longitudinal changes in brain structure across the lifespan

RM Brouwer, M Klein, KL Grasby, HG Schnack… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Human brain structure changes throughout the lifespan. Altered brain growth or rates of
decline are implicated in a vast range of psychiatric, developmental and neurodegenerative …

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 …

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) …

Genome-wide association study of alcohol consumption and use disorder in 274,424 individuals from multiple populations

HR Kranzler, H Zhou, RL Kember… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Alcohol consumption level and alcohol use disorder (AUD) diagnosis are moderately
heritable traits. We conduct genome-wide association studies of these traits using …

Genomic structural equation modelling provides insights into the multivariate genetic architecture of complex traits

AD Grotzinger, M Rhemtulla, R de Vlaming… - Nature human …, 2019 - nature.com
Genetic correlations estimated from genome-wide association studies (GWASs) reveal
pervasive pleiotropy across a wide variety of phenotypes. We introduce genomic structural …

Transancestral GWAS of alcohol dependence reveals common genetic underpinnings with psychiatric disorders

RK Walters, R Polimanti, EC Johnson… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Liability to alcohol dependence (AD) is heritable, but little is known about its complex
polygenic architecture or its genetic relationship with other disorders. To discover loci …

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 …

How genome-wide association studies (GWAS) made traditional candidate gene studies obsolete

LE Duncan, M Ostacher, J Ballon - Neuropsychopharmacology, 2019 - nature.com
A common belief among statistical geneticists is that genomewide association studies
1(GWAS) rendered candidate gene studies 2 obsolete. It is also widely believed that nearly …