The genesis of schizophrenia: an origin story

R Birnbaum, DR Weinberger - American Journal of Psychiatry, 2024 - psychiatryonline.org
Schizophrenia is routinely referred to as a neurodevelopmental disorder, but the role of
brain development in a disorder typically diagnosed during early adult life is enigmatic. The …

From compartments to loops: understanding the unique chromatin organization in neuronal cells

D Zagirova, A Kononkova, N Vaulin… - Epigenetics & Chromatin, 2024 - Springer
The three-dimensional organization of the genome plays a central role in the regulation of
cellular functions, particularly in the human brain. This review explores the intricacies of …

Chromatin accessibility provides a window into the genetic etiology of human brain disease

J Bendl, JF Fullard, K Girdhar, P Dong, R Kosoy… - Trends in Genetics, 2025 - cell.com
Neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative diseases have a significant genetic component.
Risk variants often affect the noncoding genome, altering cis-regulatory elements (CREs) …

Sex differences in brain cell-type specific chromatin accessibility in schizophrenia

P Roussos, Y Ma, K Girdhar, G Hoffman… - Research …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Our understanding of the sex-specific role of the non-coding genome in serious mental
illness remains largely incomplete. To address this gap, we explored sex differences in …

Convergent and non-additive impact of schizophrenia risk genes in human neurons

PJM Deans, KG Townsley, A Li, C Seah, J Johnson… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Genetic studies of schizophrenia reveal a complex polygenic risk architecture comprised of
hundreds of risk variants; most are common in the population at-large, non-coding, and act …