The polygenic architecture of schizophrenia—rethinking pathogenesis and nosology

OB Smeland, O Frei, AM Dale… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Schizophrenia is a severe psychiatric disorder with considerable morbidity and mortality.
Although the past two decades have seen limited improvement in the treatment of …

Polygenic risk scores in clinical psychology: bridging genomic risk to individual differences

R Bogdan, DAA Baranger… - Annual review of clinical …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Genomewide association studies (GWASs) across psychiatric phenotypes have shown that
common genetic variants generally confer risk with small effect sizes (odds ratio< 1.1) that …

A phenotypic spectrum of autism is attributable to the combined effects of rare variants, polygenic risk and sex

D Antaki, J Guevara, AX Maihofer, M Klein, M Gujral… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The genetic etiology of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is multifactorial, but how
combinations of genetic factors determine risk is unclear. In a large family sample, we show …

Distinguishing genetic correlation from causation across 52 diseases and complex traits

LJ O'Connor, AL Price - Nature genetics, 2018 - nature.com
Mendelian randomization, a method to infer causal relationships, is confounded by genetic
correlations reflecting shared etiology. We developed a model in which a latent causal …

Next-generation sequencing strategies

SE Levy, BE Boone - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2019 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
More than a decade ago, the term “next-generation” sequencing was coined to describe
what was, at the time, revolutionary new methods to sequence RNA and DNA at a faster …

An evolutionary perspective on complex neuropsychiatric disease

JM McClellan, AW Zoghbi, JD Buxbaum, C Cappi… - Neuron, 2024 - cell.com
The forces of evolution—mutation, selection, migration, and genetic drift—shape the genetic
architecture of human traits, including the genetic architecture of complex neuropsychiatric …

Parental age and differential estimates of risk for neuropsychiatric disorders: Findings from the Danish birth cohort

M Janecka, SN Hansen, A Modabbernia… - Journal of the American …, 2019 - Elsevier
Objective Parental age at birth has been shown to affect the rates of a range of
neurodevelopmental disorders, but the understanding of the mechanisms through which it …

The shared genetic architecture of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and lifespan

G Muntané, X Farré, E Bosch, L Martorell, A Navarro… - Human genetics, 2021 - Springer
Psychiatric disorders such as Schizophrenia (SCZ) and Bipolar Disorder (BD) represent an
evolutionary paradox, as they exhibit strong negative effects on fitness, such as decreased …

Paternal age and 13 psychiatric disorders in the offspring: a population-based cohort study of 7 million children in Taiwan

SH Wang, CS Wu, LY Hsu, MC Lin, PC Chen… - Molecular …, 2022 - nature.com
Although paternal age has been linked to certain psychiatric disorders, the nature of any
causal relationship remains elusive. Here, we aimed to comprehensively assess the …

Neuro-transcriptomic signatures for mood disorder morbidity and suicide mortality

M Jabbi, D Arasappan, SB Eickhoff… - Journal of psychiatric …, 2020 - Elsevier
Suicidal behaviors are strongly linked with mood disorders, but the specific neurobiological
and functional gene-expression correlates for this linkage remain elusive. We performed …