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Neuron-specific signatures in the chromosomal connectome associated with schizophrenia risk
Rajarajan P, Borrman T, Liao W, Schrode N, Flaherty E, Casiño C, Powell S, Yashaswini C, LaMarca EA, Kassim B, Javidfar B, Espeso-Gil S, Li A, Won H, Geschwind DH, Ho SM, MacDonald M, Hoffman GE, Roussos P, Zhang B, Hahn CG, Weng Z, Brennand KJ, Akbarian S. Neuron-specific signatures in the chromosomal connectome associated with schizophrenia risk. Science 2018, 362 PMID: 30545851, PMCID: PMC6408958, DOI: 10.1126/science.aat4311.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsBrainCells, CulturedChromatinChromatin Assembly and DisassemblyChromosomes, HumanConnectomeEpigenesis, GeneticGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseGenome, HumanGenome-Wide Association StudyHumansMaleNeural Stem CellsNeurogenesisNeurogliaNeuronsNucleic Acid ConformationProtein Interaction MapsProteomicsRiskSchizophreniaTranscription, GeneticTranscriptomeConceptsCoordinated transcriptional regulationThree-dimensional genomeSpatial genome organizationChromosomal contact mapsNeural progenitor cellsSchizophrenia risk variantsGenome organizationChromatin remodelingChromosomal conformationTranscriptional regulationProteomic interactionsDevelopmental remodelingHeritable riskGlial differentiationRisk variantsContact mapsProgenitor cellsVariant sequencesGenesConformation changeNeuronal connectivitySchizophrenia riskSequenceNeuropsychiatric diseasesDistal targets
2020
Functional annotation of rare structural variation in the human brain
Han L, Zhao X, Benton ML, Perumal T, Collins RL, Hoffman GE, Johnson JS, Sloofman L, Wang HZ, Stone MR, Brennand K, Brand H, Sieberts S, Marenco S, Peters M, Lipska B, Roussos P, Capra J, Talkowski M, Ruderfer D. Functional annotation of rare structural variation in the human brain. Nature Communications 2020, 11: 2990. PMID: 32533064, PMCID: PMC7293301, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-16736-1.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2018
Landscape of Conditional eQTL in Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex and Co-localization with Schizophrenia GWAS
Dobbyn A, Huckins L, Boocock J, Sloofman L, Glicksberg B, Giambartolomei C, Hoffman G, Perumal T, Girdhar K, Jiang Y, Raj T, Ruderfer D, Kramer R, Pinto D, Akbarian S, Roussos P, Domenici E, Devlin B, Sklar P, Stahl E, Sieberts S, Sklar P, Buxbaum J, Devlin B, Lewis D, Gur R, Hahn C, Hirai K, Toyoshiba H, Domenici E, Essioux L, Mangravite L, Peters M, Lehner T, Lipska B, Cicek A, Lu C, Roeder K, Xie L, Talbot K, Hemby S, Essioux L, Browne A, Chess A, Topol A, Charney A, Dobbyn A, Readhead B, Zhang B, Pinto D, Bennett D, Kavanagh D, Ruderfer D, Stahl E, Schadt E, Hoffman G, Shah H, Zhu J, Johnson J, Fullard J, Dudley J, Girdhar K, Brennand K, Sloofman L, Huckins L, Fromer M, Mahajan M, Roussos P, Akbarian S, Purcell S, Hamamsy T, Raj T, Haroutunian V, Wang Y, Gümüş Z, Senthil G, Kramer R, Logsdon B, Derry J, Dang K, Sieberts S, Perumal T, Visintainer R, Shinobu L, Sullivan P, Klei L. Landscape of Conditional eQTL in Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex and Co-localization with Schizophrenia GWAS. American Journal Of Human Genetics 2018, 102: 1169-1184. PMID: 29805045, PMCID: PMC5993513, DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2018.04.011.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsExpression quantitative trait lociConditional expression quantitative trait lociCommonMind ConsortiumEQTL signalsGenome-wide association study (GWAS) lociSchizophrenia GWASContext-specific regulationQuantitative trait lociCo-localization analysisGene expression levelsGWAS associationsNovel genesTrait lociStudy lociCausal genesEQTL dataFine mappingGenomic featuresGWAS statisticsGene expressionGenesGWASLociExpression levelsHuman brain samples