Colloquium: Quantum anomalous Hall effect

CZ Chang, CX Liu, AH MacDonald - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2023 - APS
The quantum Hall (QH) effect, quantized Hall resistance combined with zero longitudinal
resistance, is the characteristic experimental fingerprint of Chern insulators—topologically …

Angle-resolved photoemission studies of quantum materials

JA Sobota, Y He, ZX Shen - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2021 - APS
The physics of quantum materials is dictated by many-body interactions and mathematical
concepts such as symmetry and topology that have transformed our understanding of matter …

APOE4 impairs myelination via cholesterol dysregulation in oligodendrocytes

JW Blanchard, LA Akay, J Davila-Velderrain… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
APOE4 is the strongest genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease,–. However, the effects of
APOE4 on the human brain are not fully understood, limiting opportunities to develop …

Tau activation of microglial cGAS–IFN reduces MEF2C-mediated cognitive resilience

JC Udeochu, S Amin, Y Huang, L Fan, ERS Torres… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Pathological hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease (AD) precede clinical symptoms by years,
indicating a period of cognitive resilience before the onset of dementia. Here, we report that …

Mapping genomic loci implicates genes and synaptic biology in schizophrenia

V Trubetskoy, AF Pardiñas, T Qi, G Panagiotaropoulou… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Schizophrenia has a heritability of 60–80%, much of which is attributable to common risk
alleles. Here, in a two-stage genome-wide association study of up to 76,755 individuals with …

A genome-wide association study with 1,126,563 individuals identifies new risk loci for Alzheimer's disease

DP Wightman, IE Jansen, JE Savage, AA Shadrin… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Late-onset Alzheimer's disease is a prevalent age-related polygenic disease that accounts
for 50–70% of dementia cases. Currently, only a fraction of the genetic variants underlying …

Large-scale cis- and trans-eQTL analyses identify thousands of genetic loci and polygenic scores that regulate blood gene expression

U Võsa, A Claringbould, HJ Westra, MJ Bonder… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Trait-associated genetic variants affect complex phenotypes primarily via regulatory
mechanisms on the transcriptome. To investigate the genetics of gene expression, we …

Single-cell dissection of the human brain vasculature

FJ Garcia, N Sun, H Lee, B Godlewski, H Mathys… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Despite the importance of the cerebrovasculature in maintaining normal brain physiology
and in understanding neurodegeneration and drug delivery to the central nervous system …

Human microglial state dynamics in Alzheimer's disease progression

N Sun, MB Victor, YP Park, X Xiong, AN Scannail… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Altered microglial states affect neuroinflammation, neurodegeneration, and disease but
remain poorly understood. Here, we report 194,000 single-nucleus microglial transcriptomes …

Genome-wide meta-analysis of insomnia prioritizes genes associated with metabolic and psychiatric pathways

K Watanabe, PR Jansen, JE Savage, P Nandakumar… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Insomnia is a heritable, highly prevalent sleep disorder for which no sufficient treatment
currently exists. Previous genome-wide association studies with up to 1.3 million subjects …