2023
MASSIVELY PARALLEL CHARACTERIZATION OF CONTEXT SPECIFIC REGULATORY RISK ELEMENTS ACROSS PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS IN HUMAN-INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL-DERIVED GLUTAMATERGIC NEURONS
Townsley K, Sen A, Lee J, Deans P, Jia M, Fernandez-Garcia M, Cartwright S, Cohen S, Goate A, Brennand K, Huckins L. MASSIVELY PARALLEL CHARACTERIZATION OF CONTEXT SPECIFIC REGULATORY RISK ELEMENTS ACROSS PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS IN HUMAN-INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL-DERIVED GLUTAMATERGIC NEURONS. European Neuropsychopharmacology 2023, 75: s7-s8. DOI: 10.1016/j.euroneuro.2023.08.022.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCandidate regulatory sequencesExpression quantitative trait lociRegulatory sequencesTranscriptional activityGWAS statisticsSingle-cell CRISPR screensCell type-specific mannerParallel reporter assaysQuantitative trait lociPutative regulatory elementsHigh-throughput sequencingFine-mapping approachFine-mapping methodsLarge-scale identificationFunctional impactTranscriptomic imputationTrait lociKey genesCRISPR screensLarge-scale screening techniquesRegulatory elementsNeuropsychiatric traitsCausal SNPsReporter assaysCasual variantsBetter together: Non-additive interactions between schizophrenia risk genes
Deans P, Brennand K. Better together: Non-additive interactions between schizophrenia risk genes. Cell Genomics 2023, 3: 100403. PMID: 37719145, PMCID: PMC10504666, DOI: 10.1016/j.xgen.2023.100403.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2021
Chapter 30 Functional genomics of psychiatric disease risk using genome engineering
Garcia M, Powell S, LaMarca E, Fernando M, Cohen S, Fang G, Akbarian S, Brennand K. Chapter 30 Functional genomics of psychiatric disease risk using genome engineering. 2021, 711-734. DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-823577-5.00021-0.ChaptersRisk variantsDisease-relevant cell typesPsychiatric disease riskPluripotent stem cellsFunctional genomicsGenetic risk architectureGenome engineeringComplex geneticsCRISPR engineeringHiPSC modelsCell typesFunctional explorationStem cellsFunctional impactRisk architecturePossible new avenuesGenetic findingsGenetic screeningNew insightsNovel therapeutic approachesFundamental roleNew avenuesDisease pathophysiologyEpigenomeVariants
2020
Parsing the Functional Impact of Noncoding Genetic Variants in the Brain Epigenome
Powell SK, O'Shea C, Brennand KJ, Akbarian S. Parsing the Functional Impact of Noncoding Genetic Variants in the Brain Epigenome. Biological Psychiatry 2020, 89: 65-75. PMID: 33131715, PMCID: PMC7718420, DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2020.06.033.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsGenetic variantsDisease-associated genetic variationProtein-coding lociRisk-associated genetic variantsGene regulatory lociThousands of variantsFunctional impactRare genetic variantsEpigenomic mappingRegulatory lociBrain epigenomeGenetic variationDNA sequencesNoncoding variantsGene expressionIntegrative analysisEpigenomic architectureMolecular pathwaysPsychiatric geneticsFunctional readoutRisk variantsLociVariantsHighlight findingsEpigenome
2019
CRISPR-based functional evaluation of schizophrenia risk variants
Rajarajan P, Flaherty E, Akbarian S, Brennand KJ. CRISPR-based functional evaluation of schizophrenia risk variants. Schizophrenia Research 2019, 217: 26-36. PMID: 31277978, PMCID: PMC6939156, DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2019.06.017.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSchizophrenia-associated variantsPluripotent stem cellsCRISPR genome engineeringSchizophrenia risk variantsCellular functionsGenome engineeringGenomic studiesSchizophrenia lociList of variantsGene expressionPatient-specific humanGenotype dataRisk variantsStem cellsFunctional impactCommon variantsCRISPRPost-mortem brain tissueRecent findingsVariantsNeuropsychiatric diseasesPoint of convergenceGenetic riskLociSpecific effects