Science,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
380(6643)
Published: April 27, 2023
Conserved
genomic
sequences
disrupted
in
humans
may
underlie
uniquely
human
phenotypic
traits.
We
identified
and
characterized
10,032
human-specific
conserved
deletions
(hCONDELs).
These
short
(average
2.56
base
pairs)
are
enriched
for
brain
functions
across
genetic,
epigenomic,
transcriptomic
datasets.
Using
massively
parallel
reporter
assays
six
cell
types,
we
discovered
800
hCONDELs
conferring
significant
differences
regulatory
activity,
half
of
which
enhance
rather
than
disrupt
function.
highlight
several
with
putative
effects
on
development,
including
World Psychiatry,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
22(2), P. 236 - 262
Published: May 9, 2023
The
field
of
psychiatry
is
hampered
by
a
lack
robust,
reliable
and
valid
biomarkers
that
can
aid
in
objectively
diagnosing
patients
providing
individualized
treatment
recommendations.
Here
we
review
critically
evaluate
the
evidence
for
most
promising
psychiatric
neuroscience
literature
autism
spectrum
disorder,
schizophrenia,
anxiety
disorders
post‐traumatic
stress
major
depression
bipolar
substance
use
disorders.
Candidate
reviewed
include
various
neuroimaging,
genetic,
molecular
peripheral
assays,
purposes
determining
susceptibility
or
presence
illness,
predicting
response
safety.
This
highlights
critical
gap
biomarker
validation
process.
An
enormous
societal
investment
over
past
50
years
has
identified
numerous
candidate
biomarkers.
However,
to
date,
overwhelming
majority
these
measures
have
not
been
proven
sufficiently
reliable,
useful
be
adopted
clinically.
It
time
consider
whether
strategic
investments
might
break
this
impasse,
focusing
on
limited
number
candidates
advance
through
process
definitive
testing
specific
indication.
Some
N170
signal,
an
event‐related
brain
potential
measured
using
electroencephalography,
subgroup
identification
within
disorder;
striatal
resting‐state
functional
magnetic
resonance
imaging
(fMRI)
measures,
such
as
connectivity
index
(SCI)
abnormalities
(FSA)
index,
prediction
schizophrenia;
error‐related
negativity
(ERN),
electrophysiological
first
onset
generalized
structural
connectomic
social
disorder.
Alternate
forms
classification
may
conceptualizing
Collaborative
efforts
allowing
inclusion
biosystems
beyond
genetics
neuroimaging
are
needed,
online
remote
acquisition
selected
naturalistic
setting
mobile
health
tools
significantly
field.
Setting
benchmarks
well‐defined
target
application,
along
with
development
appropriate
funding
partnership
mechanisms,
would
also
crucial.
Finally,
it
should
never
forgotten
that,
actionable,
will
need
clinically
predictive
at
individual
level
viable
clinical
settings.
Brain Behavior and Immunity,
Journal Year:
2021,
Volume and Issue:
97, P. 176 - 185
Published: July 16, 2021
Schizophrenia,
bipolar
disorder
and
depression
are
associated
with
inflammation.
However,
it
is
unclear
whether
associations
of
immunological
proteins/traits
these
disorders
likely
to
be
causal,
or
could
explained
by
reverse
causality/residual
confounding.We
used
bi-directional
two-sample
Mendelian
randomization
(MR)
multi-variable
MR
(MVMR)
analysis
examine
evidence
causality,
specificity
direction
association
20
(pro-inflammatory
cytokines:
interleukin
(IL)-6,
tumour
necrosis
factor
(TNF)-α,
IL-12,
IL-16,
IL-17,
IL-18;
anti-inflammatory
IL-1
receptor
antagonist
(RA),
IL-10,
IL-13;
chemokines:
IL-8,
monocyte
chemo-attractant
protein-1
(MCP-1);
lymphoid
growth-factors:
soluble
(s)
IL-2Rα,
IL-4,
IL-7,
IL-9;
myeloid
growth-factor:
IL-5;
acute
phase
protein:
C-Reactive
Protein
(CRP);
immune
cells:
neutrophils,
lymphocytes;
neurotrophic
factor:
brain
derived
(BDNF))
schizophrenia,
major
disorder.Genetically-predicted
IL-6
was
increased
risk
schizophrenia
in
univariable
(OR
=
1.24;
95%
C.I.,
1.05-1.47)
MVMR
1.08;
1.03-1.12).
These
results
survived
Bonferroni-correction.
Genetically-predicted
sIL-2Rα
1.07;
1.01-1.12)
IL-9
1.06;
1.01-1.11)
were
risk.
BDNF
0.97;
0.94-1.00)
MCP-1
0.96;
0.91-0.99)
reduced
findings
did
not
survive
correction
for
multiple
testing.
The
CRP-schizophrenia
attenuated
completely
after
taking
into
account
1.02;
0.81-1.28).
No
significant
observed
disorder.
Evidence
from
bidirectional
support
causality.We
report
potential
causal
several
depression.
Some
the
testing
so
replication
larger
samples
required.
Experimental
studies
also
required
further
mechanisms,
treatment
proteins/pathways
World Psychiatry,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
22(1), P. 4 - 24
Published: Jan. 14, 2023
Psychiatric
genetics
has
made
substantial
progress
in
the
last
decade,
providing
new
insights
into
genetic
etiology
of
psychiatric
disorders,
and
paving
way
for
precision
psychiatry,
which
individual
profiles
may
be
used
to
personalize
risk
assessment
inform
clinical
decision‐making.
Long
recognized
heritable,
recent
evidence
shows
that
disorders
are
influenced
by
thousands
variants
acting
together.
Most
these
commonly
occurring,
meaning
every
a
each
disorder,
from
low
high.
A
series
large‐scale
studies
have
discovered
an
increasing
number
common
rare
robustly
associated
with
major
disorders.
The
most
convincing
biological
interpretation
findings
implicates
altered
synaptic
function
autism
spectrum
disorder
schizophrenia.
However,
mechanistic
understanding
is
still
incomplete.
In
line
their
extensive
epidemiological
overlap,
appear
exist
on
continua
share
large
degree
one
another.
This
provides
further
support
notion
current
diagnoses
do
not
represent
distinct
pathogenic
entities,
ongoing
attempts
reconceptualize
nosology.
also
influences
range
behavioral
somatic
traits
diseases,
including
brain
structures,
cognitive
function,
immunological
phenotypes
cardiovascular
disease,
suggesting
shared
potential
importance.
Current
polygenic
score
tools,
predict
susceptibility
illness,
yet
provide
clinically
actionable
information.
likely
improve
coming
years,
they
eventually
become
part
practice,
stressing
need
educate
clinicians
patients
about
use
misuse.
review
discusses
key
possible
applications,
suggests
future
directions.
Frontiers in Genetics,
Journal Year:
2021,
Volume and Issue:
12
Published: June 28, 2021
Schizophrenia
(SZ)
and
bipolar
disorder
(BD)
are
severe
psychiatric
disorders
which
result
from
complex
interplay
between
genetic
environmental
factors.
It
is
well-established
that
they
highly
heritable
disorders,
considerable
progress
has
been
made
identifying
their
shared
distinct
risk
However,
the
15-40%
of
derived
sources
less
definitively
known.
Environmental
factors
have
repeatedly
investigated
often
associated
with
SZ
include:
obstetric
complications,
infections,
winter
or
spring
birth,
migration,
urban
living,
childhood
adversity,
cannabis
use.
There
evidence
adversity
some
types
infections
also
BD.
Evidence
for
other
in
BD
weaker
due
to
fewer
studies
smaller
sample
sizes.
Relatively
few
exposures
ever
examined
BD,
additional
ones
likely
remain
be
discovered.
A
complete
picture
how
confer
these
requires
an
understanding
interact.
Early
gene-by-environment
interaction
both
involved
candidate
genes
were
underpowered.
Larger
samples
genome-wide
data
polygenic
scores
now
offer
enhanced
prospects
reveal
interactions
contribute
disorders.
Overall,
although
identified
SZ,
extent
account
total
remains
unknown.
For
not
well
understood
merit
further
investigation.
Questions
regarding
mechanisms
by
exert
effects,
ways
differ
sex.
Concurrent
investigations
needed
as
we
work
toward
a
more
comprehensive
arise.
Nature Genetics,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
54(9), P. 1355 - 1363
Published: Aug. 18, 2022
Abstract
Most
genetic
variants
identified
from
genome-wide
association
studies
(GWAS)
in
humans
are
noncoding,
indicating
their
role
gene
regulation.
Previous
have
shown
considerable
links
of
GWAS
signals
to
expression
quantitative
trait
loci
(eQTLs)
but
the
other
regulatory
mechanisms,
such
as
splicing
QTLs
(sQTLs),
underexplored.
Here,
we
introduce
an
sQTL
mapping
method,
t
esting
for
h
eterogeneity
between
is
oform-eQ
TL
e
ffects
(THISTLE),
with
improved
power
over
competing
methods.
Applying
THISTLE
together
a
complementary
strategy
brain
transcriptomic
(
n
=
2,865)
and
genotype
data,
12,794
genes
cis
-sQTLs
at
P
<
5
×
10
−8
,
approximately
61%
which
were
distinct
eQTLs.
Integrating
data
into
12
brain-related
complex
traits
(including
diseases),
244
associated
through
-sQTLs,
could
not
be
discovered
using
corresponding
eQTL
data.
Our
study
demonstrates
most
sQTLs
regulation
transcription
variation.
JAMA Psychiatry,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
80(4), P. 360 - 360
Published: Feb. 8, 2023
Importance
Comorbidities
and
genetic
correlations
between
gastrointestinal
tract
diseases
psychiatric
disorders
have
been
widely
reported,
with
the
gut-brain
axis
(GBA)
hypothesized
as
a
potential
biological
basis.
However,
degree
to
which
shared
determinants
are
involved
in
these
associations
underlying
GBA
is
unclear.
Objective
To
investigate
etiology
identify
genomic
loci,
genes,
pathways.
Design,
Setting,
Participants
This
genome-wide
pleiotropic
association
study
using
summary
statistics
from
publicly
available
data
sources
was
performed
various
statistical
approaches
sequentially
single-nucleotide
variation
(SNV;
formerly
polymorphism
[SNP]),
gene
levels
pathways
disentangle
4
(inflammatory
bowel
disease,
irritable
syndrome,
peptic
ulcer
gastroesophageal
reflux
disease)
6
(schizophrenia,
bipolar
disorder,
major
depressive
attention-deficit/hyperactivity
posttraumatic
stress
anorexia
nervosa).
Data
were
collected
March
10,
2021,
August
25,
analysis
January
8
through
May
30,
2022.
Main
Outcomes
Measures
The
primary
outcomes
consisted
of
list
disorders.
Results
Extensive
overlaps
found
among
22
24
trait
pairs.
Pleiotropic
under
composite
null
hypothesis
identified
2910
significant
SNVs
19
pairs,
83
loci
colocalized
detected.
Gene-based
158
unique
candidate
highly
enriched
certain
GBA-related
phenotypes
tissues,
whereas
pathway
enrichment
further
highlighted
primarily
involving
cell
adhesion,
synaptic
structure
function,
immune
differentiation.
Several
also
causal
variants
gut
microbiomes.
Mendelian
randomization
illustrated
vertical
pleiotropy
across
pairwise
traits.
Notably,
many
for
multiple
traits,
such
1q32.1
(
INAVA
),
19q13.33
FUT2
11q23.2
NCAM1
1p32.3
LRP8
).
Conclusions
Relevance
These
findings
suggest
that
extensively
distributed
genome.
not
only
support
basis
but
important
implications
intervention
treatment
targets
simultaneously.
Cell,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
185(18), P. 3390 - 3407.e18
Published: Sept. 1, 2022
Chemical
synapses
between
axons
and
dendrites
mediate
neuronal
intercellular
communication.
Here,
we
describe
a
synapse
primary
cilia:
the
axo-ciliary
synapse.
Using
enhanced
focused
ion
beam-scanning
electron
microscopy
on
samples
with
optimally
preserved
ultrastructure,
discovered
brainstem
serotonergic
cilia
of
hippocampal
CA1
pyramidal
neurons.
Functionally,
these
are
enriched
in
ciliary-restricted
serotonin
receptor,
5-hydroxytryptamine
receptor
6
(5-HTR6).
cilia-targeted
sensor,
show
that
opto-
chemogenetic
stimulation
releases
onto
cilia.
Ciliary
5-HTR6
activates
non-canonical
G
Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
9(1)
Published: Aug. 28, 2024
Abstract
Hyperuricemia,
characterized
by
elevated
levels
of
serum
uric
acid
(SUA),
is
linked
to
a
spectrum
commodities
such
as
gout,
cardiovascular
diseases,
renal
disorders,
metabolic
syndrome,
and
diabetes,
etc.
Significantly
impairing
the
quality
life
for
those
affected,
prevalence
hyperuricemia
an
upward
trend
globally,
especially
in
most
developed
countries.
UA
possesses
multifaceted
role,
antioxidant,
pro-oxidative,
pro-inflammatory,
nitric
oxide
modulating,
anti-aging,
immune
effects,
which
are
significant
both
physiological
pathological
contexts.
The
equilibrium
circulating
urate
hinges
on
interplay
between
production
excretion,
delicate
balance
orchestrated
transporter
functions
across
various
epithelial
tissues
cell
types.
While
existing
research
has
identified
involvement
numerous
biological
processes
signaling
pathways,
precise
mechanisms
connecting
disease
etiology
remain
be
fully
elucidated.
In
addition,
influence
genetic
susceptibilities
environmental
determinants
calls
detailed
nuanced
examination.
This
review
compiles
data
from
global
epidemiological
studies
clinical
practices,
exploring
foundations
transporters
depth.
Furthermore,
we
uncover
complex
induced
inflammation
influences
individuals
with
association
its
relative
disease,
offering
foundation
innovative
therapeutic
approaches
advanced
pharmacological
strategies.