Genetic heterogeneity, modifier genes, and quantitative phenotypes in psychiatric illness: searching for a framework

AH Fanous, KS Kendler - Molecular psychiatry, 2005 - nature.com
Schizophrenia has long been thought to be clinically heterogeneous. A range of studies
suggests that this is due to genetic heterogeneity. Some clinical features, such as negative …

[PDF][PDF] Modeling linkage disequilibrium increases accuracy of polygenic risk scores

…, V Escott-Price, L Essioux, AH Fanous… - The american journal of …, 2015 - cell.com
Polygenic risk scores have shown great promise in predicting complex disease risk and will
become more accurate as training sample sizes increase. The standard approach for …

Rare coding variants in ten genes confer substantial risk for schizophrenia

…, S Dodge, MA Escamilla, S Eskelinen, AH Fanous… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Rare coding variation has historically provided the most direct connections between gene
function and disease pathogenesis. By meta-analysing the whole exomes of 24,248 …

Contribution of copy number variants to schizophrenia from a genome-wide study of 41,321 subjects

…, J Eriksson, V Escott-Price, L Essioux, AH Fanous… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Copy number variants (CNVs) have been strongly implicated in the genetic etiology of
schizophrenia (SCZ). However, genome-wide investigation of the contribution of CNV to risk has …

[PDF][PDF] Partitioning heritability of regulatory and cell-type-specific variants across 11 common diseases

…, V Escott-Price, L Essioux, AH Fanous… - The American Journal of …, 2014 - cell.com
Regulatory and coding variants are known to be enriched with associations identified by
genome-wide association studies (GWASs) of complex disease, but their contributions to trait …

Copy number variants in schizophrenia: confirmation of five previous findings and new evidence for 3q29 microdeletions and VIPR2 duplications

…, SE Bergen, AH Fanous… - American Journal of …, 2011 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective: To evaluate previously reported associations of copy number variants (CNVs)
with schizophrenia and to identify additional associations, the authors analyzed CNVs in the …

[HTML][HTML] Convergent functional genomics of schizophrenia: from comprehensive understanding to genetic risk prediction

…, MT Tsuang, D Salomon, NJ Schork, AH Fanous… - Molecular …, 2012 - nature.com
We have used a translational convergent functional genomics (CFG) approach to identify
and prioritize genes involved in schizophrenia, by gene-level integration of genome-wide …

Polygenic dissection of diagnosis and clinical dimensions of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia

DM Ruderfer, AH Fanous, S Ripke, A McQuillin… - Molecular …, 2014 - nature.com
Bipolar disorder and schizophrenia are two often severe disorders with high heritabilities.
Recent studies have demonstrated a large overlap of genetic risk loci between these disorders …

Uncovering the hidden risk architecture of the schizophrenias: confirmation in three independent genome-wide association studies

…, AH Fanous… - American Journal of …, 2015 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective: The authors sought to demonstrate that schizophrenia is a heterogeneous group
of heritable disorders caused by different genotypic networks that cause distinct clinical …

Replication of association between schizophrenia and ZNF804A in the Irish case–control study of schizophrenia sample

…, T Bigdeli, B Wormley, GO McMichael, AH Fanous… - Molecular …, 2010 - nature.com
A recent genome-wide association study reported association between schizophrenia and
the ZNF804A gene on chromosome 2q32. 1. We attempted to replicate these findings in our …