2020
Antibodies From Children With PANDAS Bind Specifically to Striatal Cholinergic Interneurons and Alter Their Activity
Xu J, Liu RJ, Fahey S, Frick L, Leckman J, Vaccarino F, Duman RS, Williams K, Swedo S, Pittenger C. Antibodies From Children With PANDAS Bind Specifically to Striatal Cholinergic Interneurons and Alter Their Activity. American Journal Of Psychiatry 2020, 178: 48-64. PMID: 32539528, PMCID: PMC8573771, DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2020.19070698.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsStriatal cholinergic interneuronsCholinergic interneuronsMouse brain slicesObsessive-compulsive disorderControl subjectsBrain slicesPediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disordersIntravenous immunoglobulin treatmentAutoimmune neuropsychiatric disordersAcute mouse brain slicesParvalbumin-expressing GABAergic interneuronsPediatric obsessive-compulsive disorderBrain antigensImmunoglobulin treatmentBaseline serumStreptococcal infectionCritical cellular targetsSymptom improvementGABAergic interneuronsInduced autoimmunityIgG antibodiesMouse slicesIndependent cohortBehavioral pathologyNeuron types
2012
Genome-wide association study of obsessive-compulsive disorder
Stewart SE, Yu D, Scharf JM, Neale BM, Fagerness JA, Mathews CA, Arnold PD, Evans PD, Gamazon ER, Osiecki L, McGrath L, Haddad S, Crane J, Hezel D, Illman C, Mayerfeld C, Konkashbaev A, Liu C, Pluzhnikov A, Tikhomirov A, Edlund C, Rauch S, Moessner R, Falkai P, Maier W, Ruhrmann S, Grabe H, Lennertz L, Wagner M, Bellodi L, Cavallini M, Richter M, Cook E, Kennedy J, Rosenberg D, Stein D, Hemmings S, Lochner C, Azzam A, Chavira D, Fournier E, Garrido H, Sheppard B, Umaña P, Murphy D, Wendland J, Veenstra-VanderWeele J, Denys D, Blom R, Deforce D, Van Nieuwerburgh F, Westenberg H, Walitza S, Egberts K, Renner T, Miguel E, Cappi C, Hounie A, Conceição do Rosário M, Sampaio A, Vallada H, Nicolini H, Lanzagorta N, Camarena B, Delorme R, Leboyer M, Pato C, Pato M, Voyiaziakis E, Heutink P, Cath D, Posthuma D, Smit J, Samuels J, Bienvenu O, Cullen B, Fyer A, Grados M, Greenberg B, McCracken J, Riddle M, Wang Y, Coric V, Leckman J, Bloch M, Pittenger C, Eapen V, Black D, Ophoff R, Strengman E, Cusi D, Turiel M, Frau F, Macciardi F, Gibbs J, Cookson M, Singleton A, Hardy J, Crenshaw A, Parkin M, Mirel D, Conti D, Purcell S, Nestadt G, Hanna G, Jenike M, Knowles J, Cox N, Pauls D. Genome-wide association study of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Molecular Psychiatry 2012, 18: 788-798. PMID: 22889921, PMCID: PMC4218751, DOI: 10.1038/mp.2012.85.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsExpression quantitative trait lociSingle nucleotide polymorphismsGenome-wide significant levelGenome-wide significance thresholdX-chromosome single nucleotide polymorphismsGenome-wide association studiesTrio-based analysisQuantitative trait lociAncestry-matched controlsComplex genetic etiologyTrait lociCase-control association analysisMethylation QTLsGenetic variationGene expressionAssociation studiesTop signalsAssociation analysisBroader roleSignificant enrichmentSNP microarraysCase-control sampleNucleotide polymorphismsGenetic etiologySignificance threshold