2024
Gene discovery and biological insights into anxiety disorders from a large-scale multi-ancestry genome-wide association study
Friligkou E, Løkhammer S, Cabrera-Mendoza B, Shen J, He J, Deiana G, Zanoaga M, Asgel Z, Pilcher A, Di Lascio L, Makharashvili A, Koller D, Tylee D, Pathak G, Polimanti R. Gene discovery and biological insights into anxiety disorders from a large-scale multi-ancestry genome-wide association study. Nature Genetics 2024, 1-10. PMID: 39294497, DOI: 10.1038/s41588-024-01908-2.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchGenome-wide association studiesAnxiety disordersAssociation studiesMulti-ancestry genome-wide association studyPathogenesis of anxiety disordersHeritability of anxietyLocal genetic correlationProteome-wide analysisIndividuals of European descentAssociated with anxietyMulti-omics informationWidespread pleiotropyTranscriptome-widePolygenic risk scoresBipolar disorderAncestry-specificGene discoveryContinental groupsLimbic systemEast Asian groupsBiological insightsAnxietyEntorhinal cortexPhysical health domainBrain-specific
2022
Using phenotype risk scores to enhance gene discovery for generalized anxiety disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder
Wendt FR, Pathak GA, Deak JD, De Angelis F, Koller D, Cabrera-Mendoza B, Lebovitch DS, Levey DF, Stein MB, Kranzler HR, Koenen KC, Gelernter J, Huckins LM, Polimanti R. Using phenotype risk scores to enhance gene discovery for generalized anxiety disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder. Molecular Psychiatry 2022, 27: 2206-2215. PMID: 35181757, PMCID: PMC9133008, DOI: 10.1038/s41380-022-01469-y.Peer-Reviewed Original Research