The genetics of bipolar disorder

FJA Gordovez, FJ McMahon - Molecular psychiatry, 2020 - nature.com
Bipolar disorder (BD) is one of the most heritable mental illnesses, but the elucidation of its
genetic basis has proven to be a very challenging endeavor. Genome-Wide Association …

Genetic architectures of psychiatric disorders: the emerging picture and its implications

PF Sullivan, MJ Daly, M O'donovan - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2012 - nature.com
Psychiatric disorders are among the most intractable enigmas in medicine. In the past 5
years, there has been unprecedented progress on the genetics of many of these conditions …

Genome-wide association study of more than 40,000 bipolar disorder cases provides new insights into the underlying biology

N Mullins, AJ Forstner, KS O'Connell, B Coombes… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Bipolar disorder is a heritable mental illness with complex etiology. We performed a genome-
wide association study of 41,917 bipolar disorder cases and 371,549 controls of European …

Genome-wide association study identifies 30 loci associated with bipolar disorder

EA Stahl, G Breen, AJ Forstner, A McQuillin, S Ripke… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Bipolar disorder is a highly heritable psychiatric disorder. We performed a genome-wide
association study (GWAS) including 20,352 cases and 31,358 controls of European descent …

Reproducible genetic risk loci for anxiety: results from∼ 200,000 participants in the Million Veteran Program

DF Levey, J Gelernter, R Polimanti… - American Journal of …, 2020 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective: Anxiety disorders are common and often disabling. The goal of this study was to
examine the genetic architecture of anxiety disorders and anxiety symptoms, which are also …

Identification of risk loci with shared effects on five major psychiatric disorders: a genome-wide analysis

Cross-Disorder Group of the Psychiatric Genomics … - The Lancet, 2013 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Findings from family and twin studies suggest that genetic contributions to
psychiatric disorders do not in all cases map to present diagnostic categories. We aimed to …

Genome-wide association analysis identifies 13 new risk loci for schizophrenia

S Ripke, C O'dushlaine, K Chambert, JL Moran… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Schizophrenia is an idiopathic mental disorder with a heritable component and a substantial
public health impact. We conducted a multi-stage genome-wide association study (GWAS) …

The genetic overlap between mood disorders and cardiometabolic diseases: a systematic review of genome wide and candidate gene studies

AT Amare, KO Schubert, M Klingler-Hoffmann… - Translational …, 2017 - nature.com
Meta-analyses of genome-wide association studies (meta-GWASs) and candidate gene
studies have identified genetic variants associated with cardiovascular diseases, metabolic …

The ENIGMA Consortium: large-scale collaborative analyses of neuroimaging and genetic data

PM Thompson, JL Stein, SE Medland, DP Hibar… - Brain imaging and …, 2014 - Springer
Abstract The Enhancing NeuroImaging Genetics through Meta-Analysis (ENIGMA)
Consortium is a collaborative network of researchers working together on a range of large …

Genetics of bipolar disorder

N Craddock, P Sklar - The Lancet, 2013 - thelancet.com
Studies of families and twins show the importance of genetic factors affecting susceptibility to
bipolar disorder and suggest substantial genetic and phenotypic complexity. Robust and …