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 …

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 …

Novel Alzheimer disease risk loci and pathways in African American individuals using the African genome resources panel: a meta-analysis

BW Kunkle, M Schmidt, HU Klein, AC Naj… - JAMA …, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Compared with non-Hispanic White individuals, African American individuals
from the same community are approximately twice as likely to develop Alzheimer disease …

Crosstalk of genetic variants, allele-specific DNA methylation, and environmental factors for complex disease risk

H Wang, D Lou, Z Wang - Frontiers in genetics, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Over the past decades, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified thousands
of phenotype-associated DNA sequence variants for potential explanations of inter …

Multi-ancestry meta-analysis and fine-map** in Alzheimer's disease

J Lake, C Warly Solsberg, JJ Kim, J Acosta-Uribe… - Molecular …, 2023 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of Alzheimer's disease are predominantly carried
out in European ancestry individuals despite the known variation in genetic architecture and …

Kleine-Levin syndrome is associated with birth difficulties and genetic variants in the TRANK1 gene loci

A Ambati, R Hillary, S Leu-Semenescu… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - pnas.org
Kleine-Levin syndrome (KLS) is a rare disorder characterized by severe episodic
hypersomnia, with cognitive impairment accompanied by apathy or disinhibition …

Genome-wide association study of over 40,000 bipolar disorder cases provides novel biological insights

L Jones, K Gordon-Smith, A Perry - Nature genetics, 2021 - eprints.worc.ac.uk
Bipolar disorder (BD) is a heritable mental illness with complex etiology. We performed a
genome-wide association study (GWAS) of 41,917 BD cases and 371,549 controls of …

Modeling the complex genetic architectures of brain disease

MB Fernando, T Ahfeldt, KJ Brennand - Nature genetics, 2020 - nature.com
The genetic architecture of each individual comprises common and rare variants that, acting
alone and in combination, confer risk of disease. The cell-type-specific and/or context …

Advances in the pathophysiology of bipolar disorder

KM Wartchow, RC Cordeiro… - Current Opinion in …, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Regardless of which of the mechanisms described here plays a primary or secondary role in
the pathophysiology of bipolar disorder, all of these interact to worsen clinical outcomes for …

[HTML][HTML] Mood stabilizers in psychiatric disorders and mechanisms learnt from in vitro model systems

R Nayak, I Rosh, I Kustanovich, S Stern - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Bipolar disorder (BD) and schizophrenia are psychiatric disorders that manifest unusual
mental, behavioral, and emotional patterns leading to suffering and disability. These …