Hazardous drinking and alcohol use disorders

J MacKillop, R Agabio, SW Feldstein Ewing… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Alcohol is one of the most widely consumed psychoactive drugs globally. Hazardous
drinking, defined by quantity and frequency of consumption, is associated with acute and …

Genetics of substance use disorders: a review

JD Deak, EC Johnson - Psychological medicine, 2021 - cambridge.org
Substance use disorders (SUDs) are prevalent and result in an array of negative
consequences. They are influenced by genetic factors (h2=~ 50%). Recent years have …

Genetic diversity fuels gene discovery for tobacco and alcohol use

GRB Saunders, X Wang, F Chen, SK Jang, M Liu… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Tobacco and alcohol use are heritable behaviours associated with 15% and 5.3% of
worldwide deaths, respectively, due largely to broad increased risk for disease and injury …

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 …

Shared mechanisms across the major psychiatric and neurodegenerative diseases

TS Wingo, Y Liu, ES Gerasimov, SM Vattathil… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Several common psychiatric and neurodegenerative diseases share epidemiologic risk;
however, whether they share pathophysiology is unclear and is the focus of our …

Multi-ancestry study of the genetics of problematic alcohol use in over 1 million individuals

H Zhou, RL Kember, JD Deak, H Xu, S Toikumo… - Nature Medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Problematic alcohol use (PAU), a trait that combines alcohol use disorder and alcohol-
related problems assessed with a questionnaire, is a leading cause of death and morbidity …

Multivariate genome-wide association meta-analysis of over 1 million subjects identifies loci underlying multiple substance use disorders

AS Hatoum, SMC Colbert, EC Johnson… - Nature Mental …, 2023 - nature.com
Genetic liability to substance use disorders can be parsed into loci that confer general or
substance-specific addiction risk. We report a multivariate genome-wide association meta …

Mendelian randomization analyses reveal causal relationships between brain functional networks and risk of psychiatric disorders

C Mu, X Dang, XJ Luo - Nature human behaviour, 2024 - nature.com
Dysfunction of brain resting-state functional networks has been widely reported in
psychiatric disorders. However, the causal relationships between brain resting-state …

Genetic architecture of the structural connectome

M Wainberg, NJ Forde, S Mansour, I Kerrebijn… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Myelinated axons form long-range connections that enable rapid communication between
distant brain regions, but how genetics governs the strength and organization of these …

An integrated framework for local genetic correlation analysis

J Werme, S van der Sluis, D Posthuma, CA de Leeuw - Nature genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Genetic correlation (rg) analysis is used to identify phenotypes that may have a shared
genetic basis. Traditionally, rg is studied globally, considering only the average of the …