[HTML][HTML] Defining the genetic, genomic, cellular, and diagnostic architectures of psychiatric disorders

PF Sullivan, DH Geschwind - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Studies of the genetics of psychiatric disorders have become one of the most exciting and
fast-moving areas in human genetics. A decade ago, there were few reproducible findings …

[HTML][HTML] From GWAS to gene: transcriptome-wide association studies and other methods to functionally understand GWAS discoveries

B Li, MD Ritchie - Frontiers in genetics, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Since their inception, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified more than a
hundred thousand single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) loci that are associated with …

Identification of shared and differentiating genetic architecture for autism spectrum disorder, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and case subgroups

M Mattheisen, J Grove, TD Als, J Martin, G Voloudakis… - Nature Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are
highly heritable neurodevelopmental conditions, with considerable overlap in their genetic …

[HTML][HTML] Trans effects on gene expression can drive omnigenic inheritance

X Liu, YI Li, JK Pritchard - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Early genome-wide association studies (GWASs) led to the surprising discovery that, for
typical complex traits, most of the heritability is due to huge numbers of common variants …

Sequential regulatory activity prediction across chromosomes with convolutional neural networks

DR Kelley, YA Reshef, M Bileschi, D Belanger… - Genome …, 2018 - genome.cshlp.org
Models for predicting phenotypic outcomes from genotypes have important applications to
understanding genomic function and improving human health. Here, we develop a machine …

Quantifying genetic effects on disease mediated by assayed gene expression levels

DW Yao, LJ O'connor, AL Price, A Gusev - Nature genetics, 2020 - nature.com
Disease variants identified by genome-wide association studies (GWAS) tend to overlap
with expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs), but it remains unclear whether this overlap is …

Genetics of the human microglia regulome refines Alzheimer's disease risk loci

R Kosoy, JF Fullard, B Zeng, J Bendl, P Dong… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Microglia are brain myeloid cells that play a critical role in neuroimmunity and the etiology of
Alzheimer's disease (AD), yet our understanding of how the genetic regulatory landscape …

[HTML][HTML] Identifying gene targets for brain-related traits using transcriptomic and methylomic data from blood

T Qi, Y Wu, J Zeng, F Zhang, A Xue, L Jiang… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Understanding the difference in genetic regulation of gene expression between brain and
blood is important for discovering genes for brain-related traits and disorders. Here, we …

Linkage disequilibrium–dependent architecture of human complex traits shows action of negative selection

S Gazal, HK Finucane, NA Furlotte, PR Loh… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Recent work has hinted at the linkage disequilibrium (LD)-dependent architecture of human
complex traits, where SNPs with low levels of LD (LLD) have larger per-SNP heritability …

Transcriptome-wide association study of schizophrenia and chromatin activity yields mechanistic disease insights

A Gusev, N Mancuso, H Won, M Kousi, HK Finucane… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified over 100 risk loci for
schizophrenia, but the causal mechanisms remain largely unknown. We performed a …