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 …

Applying single-cell and single-nucleus genomics to studies of cellular heterogeneity and cell fate transitions in the nervous system

I Adameyko, T Bakken, A Bhaduri, C Chhatbar… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Single-cell and single-nucleus genomic approaches can provide unbiased and multimodal
insights. Here, we discuss what constitutes a molecular cell atlas and how to leverage single …

Developmental mosaicism underlying EGFR-mutant lung cancer presenting with multiple primary tumors

R Burr, I Leshchiner, CL Costantino, M Blohmer… - Nature Cancer, 2024 - nature.com
Although the development of multiple primary tumors in smokers with lung cancer can be
attributed to carcinogen-induced field cancerization, the occurrence of multiple tumors at …

Analysis of 1386 epileptogenic brain lesions reveals association with DYRK1A and EGFR

CM Boßelmann, C Leu, T Brünger, L Hoffmann… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Lesional focal epilepsy (LFE) is a common and severe seizure disorder caused by
epileptogenic lesions, including malformations of cortical development (MCD) and low …

Somatic mosaicism in schizophrenia brains reveals prenatal mutational processes

EA Maury, A Jones, V Seplyarskiy, TTL Nguyen… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Germline mutations modulate the risk of develo** schizophrenia (SCZ). Much less is
known about the role of mosaic somatic mutations in the context of SCZ. Deep (239×) whole …

Somatic mosaicism in focal epilepsies

S Gooley, P Perucca, C Tubb… - Current Opinion in …, 2024 - journals.lww.com
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Neuropathologically directed profiling of PRNP somatic and germline variants in sporadic human prion disease

GA McDonough, Y Cheng, KS Morillo, RN Doan… - Acta …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Creutzfeldt–Jakob Disease (CJD), the most common human prion disease, is
associated with pathologic misfolding of the prion protein (PrP), encoded by the PRNP gene …

Somatic Mosaicism in Brain Disorders

RR Corrigan, LM Mashburn-Warren… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Research efforts over the past decade have defined the genetic landscape of somatic
variation in the brain. Neurons accumulate somatic mutations from development through …

Ribosomal S6 kinase signaling regulates neuronal viability during development and confers resistance to excitotoxic cell death in mature neurons

KR Hoyt, P Horning, PG Ang, K Karelina, K Obrietan - Neuroscience, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Ribosomal S6 Kinase (RSK) family of serine/threonine kinases function as key
downstream effectors of the MAPK signaling cascade. In the nervous system, RSK signaling …

A deep‐learning‐based histopathology classifier for focal cortical dysplasia (FCD) unravels a complex scenario of comorbid FCD subtypes

J Vorndran, I Blümcke - Epilepsia, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Recently, we developed a first artificial intelligence (AI)‐based digital pathology
classifier for focal cortical dysplasia (FCD) as defined by the ILAE classification. Herein, we …