Validity and utility of hierarchical taxonomy of psychopathology (HiTOP): II. Externalizing superspectrum

RF Krueger, KA Hobbs, CC Conway, DM Dick… - World …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) is an empirical effort to address
limitations of traditional mental disorder diagnoses. These include arbitrary boundaries …

Emerging phenotyping strategies will advance our understanding of psychiatric genetics

S Sanchez-Roige, AA Palmer - Nature neuroscience, 2020 - nature.com
Over the last decade, genome-wide association studies of psychiatric disorders have
identified numerous significant loci. Whereas these studies initially depended on cohorts …

Genome-wide association study of problematic opioid prescription use in 132,113 23andMe research participants of European ancestry

S Sanchez-Roige, P Fontanillas, MV Jennings… - Molecular …, 2021 - nature.com
The growing prevalence of opioid use disorder (OUD) constitutes an urgent health crisis.
Ample evidence indicates that risk for OUD is heritable. As a surrogate (or proxy) for OUD …

Multi-trait genome-wide association study of opioid addiction: OPRM1 and beyond

N Gaddis, R Mathur, J Marks, L Zhou, B Quach… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Opioid addiction (OA) is moderately heritable, yet only rs1799971, the A118G variant in
OPRM1, has been identified as a genome-wide significant association with OA and …

Systematic review and meta‐analysis of the moderating effect of rs1799971 in OPRM1, the mu‐opioid receptor gene, on response to naltrexone treatment of alcohol …

EE Hartwell, R Feinn, PE Morris, J Gelernter… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Background and Aims There is wide inter‐individual variability in response to the
treatment of alcohol use disorder (AUD) with the opioid receptor antagonist naltrexone. To …

Genome-wide association analysis of opioid use disorder: A novel approach using clinical data

W Song, J Kossowsky, J Torous, CY Chen… - Drug and alcohol …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Opioid use disorder (OUD) represents a large and pervasive global public
health challenge. Previous genetic studies have demonstrated the significant heritability of …

Evolution of regulatory signatures in primate cortical neurons at cell-type resolution

A Kozlenkov, MW Vermunt, P Apontes… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
The human cerebral cortex contains many cell types that likely underwent independent
functional changes during evolution. However, cell-type–specific regulatory landscapes in …

[HTML][HTML] Illicit drug use and the genetic overlap with Cannabis use

JM Vink, L Veul, A Abdellaoui, JJ Hottenga… - Drug and alcohol …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background The use of illicit substances is correlated, meaning that individuals who use one
illicit substance are more likely to also use another illicit substance. This association could …

Trauma and posttraumatic stress interact with sex-specific risk loci for suicidality and converge on brain extracellular matrix biology and synaptic plasticity

FR Wendt, GA Pathak, DF Levey, YZ Nuñez… - medRxiv, 2020 - medrxiv.org
We performed a multivariate gene-by-environment genome-wide interaction study (GEWIS)
of suicidality in 123,633 individuals using a covariance matrix based on 26 environments …