Genomics, convergent neuroscience and progress in understanding autism spectrum disorder

HR Willsey, AJ Willsey, B Wang… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
More than a hundred genes have been identified that, when disrupted, impart large risk for
autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Current knowledge about the encoded proteins—although …

Genomic findings in schizophrenia and their implications

MJ Owen, SE Legge, E Rees, JTR Walters… - Molecular …, 2023 - nature.com
There has been substantial progress in understanding the genetics of schizophrenia over
the past 15 years. This has revealed a highly polygenic condition with the majority of the …

Rare coding variants in ten genes confer substantial risk for schizophrenia

T Singh, T Poterba, D Curtis, H Akil, M Al Eissa… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Rare coding variation has historically provided the most direct connections between gene
function and disease pathogenesis. By meta-analysing the whole exomes of 24,248 …

A concerted neuron–astrocyte program declines in ageing and schizophrenia

E Ling, J Nemesh, M Goldman, N Kamitaki, N Reed… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Human brains vary across people and over time; such variation is not yet understood in
cellular terms. Here we describe a relationship between people's cortical neurons and …

New insights from the last decade of research in psychiatric genetics: discoveries, challenges and clinical implications

OA Andreassen, GFL Hindley, O Frei… - World …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Psychiatric genetics has made substantial progress in the last decade, providing new
insights into the genetic etiology of psychiatric disorders, and paving the way for precision …

A structural variation reference for medical and population genetics

RL Collins, H Brand, KJ Karczewski, X Zhao, J Alföldi… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Structural variants (SVs) rearrange large segments of DNA and can have profound
consequences in evolution and human disease,. As national biobanks, disease-association …

Comprehensive whole-genome sequence analyses provide insights into the genomic architecture of cerebral palsy

DL Fehlings, M Zarrei, W Engchuan, N Sondheimer… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
We performed whole-genome sequencing (WGS) in 327 children with cerebral palsy (CP)
and their biological parents. We classified 37 of 327 (11.3%) children as having …

Leveraging base-pair mammalian constraint to understand genetic variation and human disease

PF Sullivan, JRS Meadows, S Gazal, BDN Phan, X Li… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Thousands of genomic regions have been associated with heritable human diseases, but
attempts to elucidate biological mechanisms are impeded by an inability to discern which …

Glutamatergic dysfunction in Schizophrenia

AO Kruse, JR Bustillo - Translational Psychiatry, 2022 - nature.com
The NMDA-R hypofunction model of schizophrenia started with the clinical observation of
the precipitation of psychotic symptoms in patients with schizophrenia exposed to PCP or …

The schizophrenia syndrome, circa 2024: What we know and how that informs its nature

R Tandon, H Nasrallah, S Akbarian… - Schizophrenia …, 2024 - Elsevier
With new data about different aspects of schizophrenia being continually generated, it
becomes necessary to periodically revisit exactly what we know. Along with a need to review …