Genetic predispositions of Parkinson's disease revealed in patient-derived brain cells

J Tran, H Anastacio, C Bardy - NPJ Parkinson's disease, 2020 - nature.com
Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most prevalent neurological disorder and has been
the focus of intense investigations to understand its etiology and progression, but it still lacks …

Stem cells, genome editing, and the path to translational medicine

F Soldner, R Jaenisch - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
The derivation of human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) and the stunning discovery that
somatic cells can be reprogrammed into human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) …

PRSet: Pathway-based polygenic risk score analyses and software

SW Choi, J García-González, Y Ruan, HM Wu… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Polygenic risk scores (PRSs) have been among the leading advances in biomedicine in
recent years. As a proxy of genetic liability, PRSs are utilised across multiple fields and …

New considerations for hiPSC-based models of neuropsychiatric disorders

GE Hoffman, N Schrode, E Flaherty… - Molecular psychiatry, 2019 - nature.com
The development of human-induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) has made possible
patient-specific modeling across the spectrum of human disease. Here, we discuss recent …

[HTML][HTML] Balancing serendipity and reproducibility: Pluripotent stem cells as experimental systems for intellectual and developmental disorders

NC Anderson, PF Chen, K Meganathan, WA Saber… - Stem cell reports, 2021 - cell.com
Reprogramming of somatic cells into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and their
differentiation into neural lineages is a revolutionary experimental system for studying …

Patient-derived midbrain organoids to explore the molecular basis of Parkinson's disease

B Galet, H Cheval, P Ravassard - Frontiers in Neurology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Induced pluripotent stem cell-derived organoids offer an unprecedented access to complex
human tissues that recapitulate features of architecture, composition and function of in vivo …

hiPSC-derived neural stem cells from patients with schizophrenia induce an impaired angiogenesis

BS Casas, G Vitória, MN do Costa… - Translational …, 2018 - nature.com
Schizophrenia is a neurodevelopmental disease characterized by cerebral connectivity
impairment and loss of gray matter. It was described in adult schizophrenia patients (SZP) …

Precision health resource of control iPSC lines for versatile multilineage differentiation

MR Hildebrandt, MS Reuter, W Wei, N Tayebi, J Liu… - Stem cell reports, 2019 - cell.com
Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) derived from healthy individuals are important controls
for disease-modeling studies. Here we apply precision health to create a high-quality …

[HTML][HTML] Recommendations, guidelines, and best practice for the use of human induced pluripotent stem cells for neuropharmacological studies of neuropsychiatric …

LD Polit, I Eidhof, RV McNeill, KM Warre-Cornish… - Neuroscience …, 2023 - Elsevier
The number of individuals suffering from neuropsychiatric disorders (NPDs) has increased
worldwide, with 3 million disability-adjusted life-years calculated in 2019. Though research …

Mental health dished up—the use of iPSC models in neuropsychiatric research

RV McNeill, GC Ziegler, F Radtke, M Nieberler… - Journal of Neural …, 2020 - Springer
Genetic and molecular mechanisms that play a causal role in mental illnesses are
challenging to elucidate, particularly as there is a lack of relevant in vitro and in vivo models …