Post-traumatic stress disorder: clinical and translational neuroscience from cells to circuits

KJ Ressler, S Berretta, VY Bolshakov… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a maladaptive and debilitating psychiatric disorder,
characterized by re-experiencing, avoidance, negative emotions and thoughts, and …

The role of the immune system in posttraumatic stress disorder

S Katrinli, NCS Oliveira, JC Felger… - Translational …, 2022 - nature.com
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) develops in a subset of individuals upon exposure to
traumatic stress. In addition to well-defined psychological and behavioral symptoms, some …

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 …

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 …

GWAS meta-analysis of suicide attempt: identification of 12 genome-wide significant loci and implication of genetic risks for specific health factors

AR Docherty, N Mullins, AE Ashley-Koch… - American journal of …, 2023 - psychiatryonline.org
Objective: Suicidal behavior is heritable and is a major cause of death worldwide. Two large-
scale genome-wide association studies (GWASs) recently discovered and cross-validated …

Genetic architecture of 11 major psychiatric disorders at biobehavioral, functional genomic and molecular genetic levels of analysis

AD Grotzinger, TT Mallard, WA Akingbuwa, HF Ip… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
We interrogate the joint genetic architecture of 11 major psychiatric disorders at
biobehavioral, functional genomic and molecular genetic levels of analysis. We identify four …

Gut microbiota and psychiatric disorders: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study

JJ Ni, Q Xu, SS Yan, BX Han, H Zhang, XT Wei… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Evidence supports the observational associations of gut microbiota with a variety of
psychiatric disorders, but the causal nature of such associations remains obscure. Aiming to …

Role of the gut-brain axis in the shared genetic etiology between gastrointestinal tract diseases and psychiatric disorders: a genome-wide pleiotropic analysis

W Gong, P Guo, Y Li, L Liu, R Yan, S Liu… - JAMA …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Comorbidities and genetic correlations between gastrointestinal tract diseases
and psychiatric disorders have been widely reported, with the gut-brain axis (GBA) …

Common and rare variant association analyses in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis identify 15 risk loci with distinct genetic architectures and neuron-specific biology

W Van Rheenen, RAA Van Der Spek, MK Bakker… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease with a lifetime risk
of one in 350 people and an unmet need for disease-modifying therapies. We conducted a …

Leveraging fine-map** and multipopulation training data to improve cross-population polygenic risk scores

O Weissbrod, M Kanai, H Shi, S Gazal, WJ Peyrot… - Nature Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Polygenic risk scores suffer reduced accuracy in non-European populations, exacerbating
health disparities. We propose PolyPred, a method that improves cross-population …