The multiplex model of the genetics of Alzheimer's disease

R Sims, M Hill, J Williams - Nature neuroscience, 2020 - nature.com
Genes play a strong role in Alzheimer's disease (AD), with late-onset AD showing heritability
of 58–79% and early-onset AD showing over 90%. Genetic association provides a robust …

ENIGMA and global neuroscience: A decade of large-scale studies of the brain in health and disease across more than 40 countries

PM Thompson, N Jahanshad, CRK Ching… - Translational …, 2020 - nature.com
This review summarizes the last decade of work by the ENIGMA (E nhancing N euro I
maging G enetics through M eta A nalysis) Consortium, a global alliance of over 1400 …

Genetic variants associated with longitudinal changes in brain structure across the lifespan

RM Brouwer, M Klein, KL Grasby, HG Schnack… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Human brain structure changes throughout the lifespan. Altered brain growth or rates of
decline are implicated in a vast range of psychiatric, developmental and neurodegenerative …

Shared mechanisms across the major psychiatric and neurodegenerative diseases

TS Wingo, Y Liu, ES Gerasimov, SM Vattathil… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Several common psychiatric and neurodegenerative diseases share epidemiologic risk;
however, whether they share pathophysiology is unclear and is the focus of our …

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 …

Genome-wide association analysis of 19,629 individuals identifies variants influencing regional brain volumes and refines their genetic co-architecture with cognitive …

B Zhao, T Luo, T Li, Y Li, J Zhang, Y Shan, X Wang… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Volumetric variations of the human brain are heritable and are associated with many brain-
related complex traits. Here we performed genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of 101 …

Discovery of 42 genome-wide significant loci associated with dyslexia

C Doust, P Fontanillas, E Eising, SD Gordon, Z Wang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Reading and writing are crucial life skills but roughly one in ten children are affected by
dyslexia, which can persist into adulthood. Family studies of dyslexia suggest heritability up …

Understanding the genetic determinants of the brain with MOSTest

D van der Meer, O Frei, T Kaufmann, AA Shadrin… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Regional brain morphology has a complex genetic architecture, consisting of many common
polymorphisms with small individual effects. This has proven challenging for genome-wide …

Replicable brain–phenotype associations require large-scale neuroimaging data

S Liu, A Abdellaoui, KJH Verweij… - Nature Human …, 2023 - nature.com
Numerous neuroimaging studies have investigated the neural basis of interindividual
differences but the replicability of brain–phenotype associations remains largely unknown …

Cell subtype-specific effects of genetic variation in the Alzheimer's disease brain

M Fujita, Z Gao, L Zeng, C McCabe, CC White, B Ng… - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
The relationship between genetic variation and gene expression in brain cell types and
subtypes remains understudied. Here, we generated single-nucleus RNA sequencing data …