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Genetics and genomics of psychiatric disease

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Geschwind, Daniel H., Flint, Jonathan·2015·Science

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Large-scale genomic investigations have just begun to illuminate the molecular genetic contributions to major psychiatric illnesses, ranging from small-effect-size common variants to larger-effect-size rare mutations. The findings provide causal anchors from which to understand their neurobiological basis. Although these studies represent enormous success, they highlight major challenges reflected in the heterogeneity and polygenicity of all of these conditions and the difficulty of connecting multiple levels of molecular, cellular, and circuit functions to complex human behavior. Nevertheless, these advances place us on the threshold of a new frontier in the pathophysiological understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of psychiatric disease.

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  • The Psychiatric Genomics Consortium has identified 142 GWAS loci associated with schizophrenia.

    “the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium (PGC) has identified 142 GWAS loci associated with schizophrenia (SCZ) (6)”
  • These results augment a substantial body of research demonstrating that genetic influences on psychopathology do not map cleanly onto the clinical nosology instantiated in the DSM or ICD.

    “These results augment a substantial body of research demonstrating that genetic influences on psychopathology do not map cleanly onto the clinical nosology instantiated in the DSM or ICD (Geschwind and Flint, 2015; Smoller et al., 2019)”
  • Results to date indicate that psychiatric disorder risk is imparted by many common variants of individually small effects, and several disorders also have contributions from rarer variants with larger impact on risk.

    “The results to date indicate that psychiatric disorder risk is imparted by many common variants of individually small effects, and several disorders also have contributions from rarer variants with larger impact on risk (Geschwind and Flint, 2015; Sullivan et al., 2018).”
  • The number of cases is the crucial determinant of the number of loci discovered; increasing sample sizes will identify more loci.

    “The crucial determinant of the number of loci discovered is the number of cases; as sample sizes increase, more loci will be identified (Geschwind and Flint, 2015; Sullivan et al., 2018).”
  • The past decade has seen remarkable progress in elucidating the genetic underpinnings of psychiatric disorders, with numerous findings meeting modern criteria for significance and reproducibility.

    “Despite these challenges, there has been remarkable progress in the past decade in elucidating the genetic underpinnings of psychiatric disorders with numerous findings that meet modern criteria for significance and reproducibility (Geschwind and Flint, 2015; Sullivan et al., 2018).”

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Authors
Geschwind, D. H., & Flint, J.
Affiliations
  • University of California, Los Angeles (US)
  • Wellcome Trust Center for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Corresponding author
Geschwind, Daniel H.
Venue
Science
Published
2015-09-25
Volume
349
Issue
6255
Pages
1489-1494
ISSN
  • 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
  • 1095-9203
OpenAlex
W2238387778
Cited by
424
References
125
Citations by year
2026: 20 · 2025: 23 · 2024: 25 · 2023: 40 · 2022: 48 · 2021: 33 · 2020: 41 · 2019: 61 · 2018: 57 · 2017: 40 · 2016: 33 · 2015: 2
FWCI
5.57
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Science (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institute of Mental Health (5R01 MH100027, 5R01 MH094714)
  • Simons Foundation (206744)
  • Wellcome Trust
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Keywords
mental illness, molecular genetics, genomics, common genetic variants, rare mutations, polygenicity, disease heterogeneity, neurobiology, pathophysiology, psychiatric diagnosis, psychiatric treatment
MeSH terms
Mental Disorders, DNA Mutational Analysis, Humans, Models, Genetic, Mutation, Risk Factors, Genetic Heterogeneity, Genomics

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