Genetic studies of serious mental illness (SMI, including schizophrenia and bipolar disorder) have implicated two classes of risk variant: common variants1-3, each of small effect but collectively accounting for most population-level risk, and ultra-rare coding variants4,5 which confer large risk in a small number of i...
Greta Gerdes, V. Tozzo, S. Service et al.· medRxiv· 0 citations
Adult hippocampal neurogenesis can be enhanced or even triggered by extrinsic stimuli, but the lineage-specific regulatory changes that accompany a stimulated neurogenic response remain undefined. We used recombinant human erythropoietin (rhEPO), a defined influencing factor that enriches newly formed pyramidal neurons...
U. Çakır, Federica Mantovani, Souad Youjil Abadi et al.· bioRxiv· 0 citations
Background Autism is a lifelong neurodevelopmental condition, but the biological processes shaping aging are poorly understood. DNA methylation-based measures index physiological decline and mortality risk independently of chronological age. We tested whether biological aging differs in autistic adults, whether differe...
Abigail Dickinson, Candace R. Lewis, D. Geschwind et al.· bioRxiv· 0 citations
Findings establish OCNDS as a disorder of compartment-specific translational dysregulation driven by impaired CK2α–G3BP1 control of RNA granule homeostasis, and establish G3bp1 knockdown rescues translational and morphological phenotypes across all OCNDS alleles.