Genome-wide association studies

E Uffelmann, QQ Huang, NS Munung… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) test hundreds of thousands of genetic variants
across many genomes to find those statistically associated with a specific trait or disease …

Ten challenges for clinical translation in psychiatric genetics

EM Derks, JG Thorp, ZF Gerring - Nature Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies have identified hundreds of robust genetic associations
underlying psychiatric disorders and provided important biological insights into disease …

Gene discovery and biological insights into anxiety disorders from a large-scale multi-ancestry genome-wide association study

E Friligkou, S Løkhammer, B Cabrera-Mendoza… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
We leveraged information from more than 1.2 million participants, including 97,383 cases, to
investigate the genetics of anxiety disorders across five continental groups. Through …

Alternative polyadenylation transcriptome-wide association study identifies APA-linked susceptibility genes in brain disorders

Y Cui, FJ Arnold, F Peng, D Wang, JS Li… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Alternative polyadenylation (APA) plays an essential role in brain development; however,
current transcriptome-wide association studies (TWAS) largely overlook APA in nominating …

Genome-wide meta-analysis, functional genomics and integrative analyses implicate new risk genes and therapeutic targets for anxiety disorders

W Li, R Chen, L Feng, X Dang, J Liu, T Chen… - Nature Human …, 2024 - nature.com
Anxiety disorders are the most prevalent mental disorders. However, the genetic etiology of
anxiety disorders remains largely unknown. Here we conducted a genome-wide meta …

Genetic architecture of the white matter connectome of the human brain

Z Sha, D Schijven, SE Fisher, C Francks - Science advances, 2023 - science.org
White matter tracts form the structural basis of large-scale brain networks. We applied brain-
wide tractography to diffusion images from 30,810 adults (UK Biobank) and found significant …

CADM2 is implicated in impulsive personality and numerous other traits by genome- and phenome-wide association studies in humans and mice

S Sanchez-Roige, MV Jennings, HHA Thorpe… - Translational …, 2023 - nature.com
Impulsivity is a multidimensional heritable phenotype that broadly refers to the tendency to
act prematurely and is associated with multiple forms of psychopathology, including …

Examining the shared etiology of psychopathology with genome-wide association studies

TT Mallard, AD Grotzinger… - Physiological …, 2023 - journals.physiology.org
Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have ushered in a new era of reproducible
discovery in psychiatric genetics. The field has now identified hundreds of common genetic …

Eye-brain connections revealed by multimodal retinal and brain imaging genetics

B Zhao, Y Li, Z Fan, Z Wu, J Shu, X Yang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The retina, an anatomical extension of the brain, forms physiological connections with the
visual cortex of the brain. Although retinal structures offer a unique opportunity to assess …

Polygenic scores and networks of psychopathology symptoms

GG Piazza, AG Allegrini, TC Eley, S Epskamp… - JAMA …, 2024 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Studies on polygenic risk for psychiatric traits commonly use a disorder-level
approach to phenoty**, implicitly considering disorders as homogeneous constructs; …