Genetic variation, brain, and intelligence differences

IJ Deary, SR Cox, WD Hill - Molecular psychiatry, 2022 - nature.com
Individual differences in human intelligence, as assessed using cognitive test scores, have a
well-replicated, hierarchical phenotypic covariance structure. They are substantially stable …

Twin studies to GWAS: there and back again

NP Friedman, MT Banich, MC Keller - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2021 - cell.com
The field of human behavioral genetics has come full circle. It began by using twin/family
studies to estimate the relative importance of genetic and environmental influences. As large …

Multivariate analysis of 1.5 million people identifies genetic associations with traits related to self-regulation and addiction

R Karlsson Linnér, TT Mallard, PB Barr… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Behaviors and disorders related to self-regulation, such as substance use, antisocial
behavior and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, are collectively referred to as …

An expanded set of genome-wide association studies of brain imaging phenotypes in UK Biobank

SM Smith, G Douaud, W Chen, T Hanayik… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
UK Biobank is a major prospective epidemiological study, including multimodal brain
imaging, genetics and ongoing health outcomes. Previously, we published genome-wide …

A human cell atlas of fetal chromatin accessibility

S Domcke, AJ Hill, RM Daza, J Cao, DR O'Day… - Science, 2020 - science.org
INTRODUCTION In recent years, the single-cell genomics field has made incredible
progress toward disentangling the cellular heterogeneity of human tissues. However, the …

[HTML][HTML] Guidelines for performing Mendelian randomization investigations: update for summer 2023

S Burgess, GD Smith, NM Davies… - Wellcome open …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
This paper provides guidelines for performing Mendelian randomization investigations. It is
aimed at practitioners seeking to undertake analyses and write up their findings, and at …

Heart-brain connections: Phenotypic and genetic insights from magnetic resonance images

B Zhao, T Li, Z Fan, Y Yang, J Shu, X Yang, X Wang… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Cardiovascular health interacts with cognitive and mental health in complex ways, yet little is
known about the phenotypic and genetic links of heart-brain systems. We quantified heart …

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 …

Genetic architecture of 11 major psychiatric disorders at biobehavioral, functional genomic and molecular genetic levels of analysis

AD Grotzinger, TT Mallard, WA Akingbuwa, HF Ip… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
We interrogate the joint genetic architecture of 11 major psychiatric disorders at
biobehavioral, functional genomic and molecular genetic levels of analysis. We identify four …

Investigating the genetic architecture of noncognitive skills using GWAS-by-subtraction

PA Demange, M Malanchini, TT Mallard, P Biroli… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Little is known about the genetic architecture of traits affecting educational attainment other
than cognitive ability. We used genomic structural equation modeling and prior genome …