2021
Role of microbes in the pathogenesis of neuropsychiatric disorders
Goswami A, Wendt FR, Pathak GA, Tylee DS, De Angelis F, De Lillo A, Polimanti R. Role of microbes in the pathogenesis of neuropsychiatric disorders. Frontiers In Neuroendocrinology 2021, 62: 100917. PMID: 33957173, PMCID: PMC8364482, DOI: 10.1016/j.yfrne.2021.100917.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNeuropsychiatric disordersDifferent anatomical sitesOral cavityAnatomical sitesHuman studiesBody sitesTranslational potentialPotential involvementPathogenesisGutMicrobial metabolitesDisordersBidirectional communicationStrong evidenceDiseaseNeurotransmittersBrainMicrobiome researchMicrobiome variation
2020
Characterizing the effect of background selection on the polygenicity of brain-related traits
Wendt FR, Pathak GA, Overstreet C, Tylee DS, Gelernter J, Atkinson EG, Polimanti R. Characterizing the effect of background selection on the polygenicity of brain-related traits. Genomics 2020, 113: 111-119. PMID: 33278486, PMCID: PMC7855394, DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2020.11.032.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsGenome-wide association studiesBrain-related traitsGWAS of schizophreniaTrait-associated lociLocus effect sizesSubset of traitsGenotype networksGenetic architectureIntolerant regionsBrain-related phenotypesBackground selectionNatural selectionEvolutionary pressurePositive selectionSNP heritabilityLocal ancestryAssociation studiesTraitsFunctional significanceLociPolygenicityBinary annotationPhenotypeRisk allelesSize variance
2013
On the outside, looking in: A review and evaluation of the comparability of blood and brain “‐omes”
Tylee DS, Kawaguchi DM, Glatt SJ. On the outside, looking in: A review and evaluation of the comparability of blood and brain “‐omes”. American Journal Of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics 2013, 162: 595-603. PMID: 24132893, DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.b.32150.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCpG island methylation levelsCross-tissue correlationBlood-based biomarker studiesTranscriptomic studiesDNA methylationOmics analysisGene expressionMethylation levelsBlood tissue samplesExpression levelsProtein expressionProfiling methodExpressionEpigenomeTranscriptomeProteomeGenesMethylationTranscriptsTissue samplesValidation of biomarkersBetter understandingCritical precursorPatternsParticular subset