The psychencode project

…, R Gao, K Grennan, J Herstein, DH Kavanagh… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Recent research on disparate psychiatric disorders has implicated rare variants in genes
involved in global gene regulation and chromatin modification, as well as many common …

De novo mutations in schizophrenia implicate synaptic networks

M Fromer, AJ Pocklington, DH Kavanagh, HJ Williams… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Inherited alleles account for most of the genetic risk for schizophrenia. However, new (de
novo) mutations, in the form of large chromosomal copy number changes, occur in a small …

Gene expression elucidates functional impact of polygenic risk for schizophrenia

…, SK Sieberts, JS Johnson, DH Kavanagh… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Over 100 genetic loci harbor schizophrenia-associated variants, yet how these variants
confer liability is uncertain. The CommonMind Consortium sequenced RNA from dorsolateral …

[PDF][PDF] Novel findings from CNVs implicate inhibitory and excitatory signaling complexes in schizophrenia

…, E Rees, JTR Walters, J Han, DH Kavanagh… - Neuron, 2015 - cell.com
We sought to obtain novel insights into schizophrenia pathogenesis by exploiting the
association between the disorder and chromosomal copy number (CNV) burden. We combined …

[PDF][PDF] Landscape of conditional eQTL in dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and co-localization with schizophrenia GWAS

…, B Zhang, DA Bennett, DH Kavanagh… - The American Journal of …, 2018 - cell.com
Causal genes and variants within genome-wide association study (GWAS) loci can be
identified by integrating GWAS statistics with expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) and …

Cell-specific histone modification maps in the human frontal lobe link schizophrenia risk to the neuronal epigenome

…, NJ Francoeur, Y Wang, H Shah, DH Kavanagh… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Risk variants for schizophrenia affect more than 100 genomic loci, yet cell- and tissue-specific
roles underlying disease liability remain poorly characterized. We have generated for two …

Schizophrenia genetics: emerging themes for a complex disorder

DH Kavanagh, KE Tansey, MC O'Donovan… - Molecular …, 2015 - nature.com
After two decades of frustration, genetic studies of schizophrenia have entered an era of
spectacular success. Advances in genotyping technologies and high throughput sequencing, …

The Psychiatric Risk Gene Transcription Factor 4 (TCF4) Regulates Neurodevelopmental Pathways Associated With Schizophrenia, Autism, and Intellectual …

MP Forrest, MJ Hill, DH Kavanagh… - Schizophrenia …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Background Common genetic variants in and around the gene encoding transcription factor
4 (TCF4) are associated with an increased risk of schizophrenia. Conversely, rare damaging …

Exome arrays capture polygenic rare variant contributions to schizophrenia

…, G Leonenko, JT Walters, DH Kavanagh… - Human molecular …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Schizophrenia is a highly heritable disorder. Genome-wide association studies based largely
on common alleles have identified over 100 schizophrenia risk loci, but it is also evident …

Practical guidelines for high-resolution epigenomic profiling of nucleosomal histones in postmortem human brain tissue

M Kundakovic, Y Jiang, DH Kavanagh, A Dincer… - Biological …, 2017 - Elsevier
Kavanagh a b , Aslihan Dincer a b , Leanne Brown a , Venu Pothula a , Elizabeth Zharovsky
a , Royce Park a , Rivka Jacobov a , Isabelle Magro a , Bibi Kassim a , Jennifer Wiseman a , …