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• Common polygenic variation contributes to risk of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

  Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder with a lifetime risk of about 1%, characterized by hallucinations, delusions and cognitive deficits, with he…

  Authors: International Schizophrenia Consortium, Shaun M Purcell, Naomi R Wray, Jennifer L Stone, Peter M Visscher, Michael C O'Donovan, Patrick F Sullivan, Pamela Sklar

  Source: Nature. 2009 Aug 6

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• Schizophrenia genetics: advancing on two fronts.

  Recent studies have supported the hypothesis that the high heritability of schizophrenia reflects a combination of relatively common alleles of small …

  Authors: Michael J Owen, Hywel J Williams, Michael C O'Donovan

  Source: Current opinion in genetics & development. 2009 Jun

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• Phenotypic variations on the theme of CNVs.

  Authors: Michael C O'Donovan, George Kirov, Michael J Owen

  Source: Nature genetics. 2008 Dec

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• Gene ontology analysis of GWA study data sets provides insights into the biology of bipolar disorder.

  We present a method for testing overrepresentation of biological pathways, indexed by gene-ontology terms, in lists of significant SNPs from genome-wi…

  Authors: Peter Holmans, Elaine K Green, Jaspreet Singh Pahwa, Manuel A R Ferreira, Shaun M Purcell, Pamela Sklar, Wellcome Trust Case-Control Consortium, Michael J Owen, Michael C O'Donovan, Nick Craddock

  Source: American journal of human genetics. 2009 Jul

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• Collaborative genome-wide association analysis supports a role for ANK3 and CACNA1C in bipolar disorder.

  To identify susceptibility loci for bipolar disorder, we tested 1.8 million variants in 4,387 cases and 6,209 controls and identified a region of stro…

  Authors: Manuel A R Ferreira, Michael C O'Donovan, Yan A Meng, Ian R Jones, Douglas M Ruderfer, Lisa Jones, Jinbo Fan, George Kirov, Roy H Perlis, Elaine K Green,…

  Source: Nature genetics. 2008 Sep

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• Identification of loci associated with schizophrenia by genome-wide association and follow-up.

  We carried out a genome-wide association study of schizophrenia (479 cases, 2,937 controls) and tested loci with P < 10(-5) in up to 16,726 additional…

  Authors: Michael C O'Donovan, Nicholas Craddock, Nadine Norton, Hywel Williams, Timothy Peirce, Valentina Moskvina, Ivan Nikolov, Marian Hamshere, Liam Carroll, Lyudmila Georgieva,…

  Source: Nature genetics. 2008 Sep

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• Support for the involvement of large copy number variants in the pathogenesis of schizophrenia.

  We investigated the involvement of rare (<1%) copy number variants (CNVs) in 471 cases of schizophrenia and 2792 controls that had been genotyped usin…

  Authors: George Kirov, Detelina Grozeva, Nadine Norton, Dobril Ivanov, Kiran K Mantripragada, Peter Holmans, International Schizophrenia Consortium, Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium, Nick Craddock, Michael J Owen,…

  Source: Human molecular genetics. 2009 Apr 15

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• Microduplications of 16p11.2 are associated with schizophrenia.

  Recurrent microdeletions and microduplications of a 600-kb genomic region of chromosome 16p11.2 have been implicated in childhood-onset developmental …

  Authors: Shane E McCarthy, Vladimir Makarov, George Kirov, Anjene M Addington, Jon McClellan, Seungtai Yoon, Diana O Perkins, Diane E Dickel, Mary Kusenda, Olga Krastoshevsky,…

  Source: Nature genetics. 2009 Nov

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• Copy number variation in schizophrenia in the Japanese population.

  BACKGROUND: Copy number variants (CNVs) have been shown to increase the risk to develop schizophrenia. The best supported findings are at 1q21.1, 15q1…

  Authors: Masashi Ikeda, Branko Aleksic, George Kirov, Yoko Kinoshita, Yoshio Yamanouchi, Tsuyoshi Kitajima, Kunihiro Kawashima, Tomo Okochi, Taro Kishi, Irina Zaharieva,…

  Source: Biological psychiatry. 2010 Feb 1

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• Influence of NOS1 on verbal intelligence and working memory in both patients with schizophrenia and healthy control subjects.

  CONTEXT: Human and animal studies have implicated the gene NOS1 in both cognition and schizophrenia susceptibility. OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether …

  Authors: Gary Donohoe, James Walters, Derek W Morris, Emma M Quinn, Róisín Judge, Nadine Norton, Ina Giegling, Annette M Hartmann, Hans-Jürgen Möller, Pierandrea Muglia,…

  Source: Archives of general psychiatry. 2009 Oct

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