Somatic mosaicism and neurodevelopmental disease

AM D'Gama, CA Walsh - Nature neuroscience, 2018 - nature.com
Traditionally, we have considered genetic mutations that cause neurodevelopmental
diseases to be inherited or de novo germline mutations. Recently, we have come to …

The role of brain microvascular endothelial cell and blood-brain barrier dysfunction in schizophrenia

S Pong, R Karmacharya, M Sofman, JR Bishop… - Complex …, 2020 - karger.com
Background: Despite decades of research, little clarity exists regarding pathogenic
mechanisms related to schizophrenia. Investigations on the disease biology of …

Measuring and estimating the effect sizes of copy number variants on general intelligence in community-based samples

G Huguet, C Schramm, E Douard, L Jiang… - JAMA …, 2018 - jamanetwork.com
Importance; Copy number variants (CNVs) classified as pathogenic are identified in 10% to
15% of patients referred for neurodevelopmental disorders. However, their effect sizes on …

Genome-wide analysis of gene dosage in 24,092 individuals estimates that 10,000 genes modulate cognitive ability

G Huguet, C Schramm, E Douard, P Tamer… - Molecular …, 2021 - nature.com
Genomic copy number variants (CNVs) are routinely identified and reported back to patients
with neuropsychiatric disorders, but their quantitative effects on essential traits such as …

Ontogenetic and pathogenetic views on somatic chromosomal mosaicism

IY Iourov, SG Vorsanova, YB Yurov, SI Kutsev - Genes, 2019 - mdpi.com
Intercellular karyotypic variability has been a focus of genetic research for more than 50
years. It has been repeatedly shown that chromosome heterogeneity manifesting as …

Mutations in human DNA methyltransferase DNMT1 induce specific genome-wide epigenomic and transcriptomic changes in neurodevelopment

KN Davis, PP Qu, S Ma, L Lin, M Plastini… - Human molecular …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract DNA methyltransferase type 1 (DNMT1) is a major enzyme involved in maintaining
the methylation pattern after DNA replication. Mutations in DNMT1 have been associated …

Somatic mutations in the human brain: implications for psychiatric research

M Nishioka, M Bundo, K Iwamoto, T Kato - Molecular psychiatry, 2019 - nature.com
Psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are caused by complex
gene–environment interactions. While recent advances in genomic technologies have …

NDST3 deacetylates α‐tubulin and suppresses V‐ATPase assembly and lysosomal acidification

Q Tang, M Liu, Y Liu, RD Hwang, T Zhang… - The EMBO …, 2021 - embopress.org
Lysosomes are key organelles maintaining cellular homeostasis in health and disease.
Here, we report the identification of N‐deacetylase and N‐sulfotransferase 3 (NDST3) as a …

Dynamic nature of somatic chromosomal mosaicism, genetic-environmental interactions and therapeutic opportunities in disease and aging

SG Vorsanova, YB Yurov, IY Iourov - Molecular Cytogenetics, 2020 - Springer
Background Somatic chromosomal mosaicism is the presence of cell populations differing
with respect to the chromosome complements (eg normal and abnormal) in an individual …

Somatic mosaicism in the diseased brain

IY Iourov, SG Vorsanova, OS Kurinnaia, SI Kutsev… - Molecular …, 2022 - Springer
It is hard to believe that all the cells of a human brain share identical genomes. Indeed,
single cell genetic studies have demonstrated intercellular genomic variability in the normal …