Michele T. Pato

Ultra-rare damaging coding variants in 87,959 schizophrenia cases and 150,587 controls implicate 40 genes (16 exome-wide, 24 at 5% FDR), half overlapping autism, developmental delay or bipolar genes.

This study analyzes 173 multiplex Portuguese families to identify rare genetic variants associated with schizophrenia, mood disorders, and autism, finding a CHD2 mutation linked to diverse mental illness phenotypes.

The paper performs rare variant association analysis using whole-genome sequencing data from the Portuguese Island Collection to identify shared genetic pathways in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

The paper introduces BGE, a sequencing method that combines low-pass whole genome and deep whole exome data, showing high accuracy and cost-effectiveness for genetic variant discovery.

Exomes of 24,248 schizophrenia cases and 97,322 controls implicate ultra-rare damaging variants in 10 genes, including GRIN2A and GRIA3, with odds ratios of 3 to 50.

The paper investigates the conservation of rare schizophrenia risk variants across diverse populations and finds consistent burden in constrained genes.

This study evaluates the prognostic value of polygenic risk scores for schizophrenia and finds they do not improve outcome prediction beyond clinical features.

This study identifies genetic variants shared between schizophrenia and alcohol use disorder, finding both convergent and divergent effects and evidence of brain tissue expression.

This study performs whole genome sequencing of human embryonic stem cells to identify genetic variants and provides resources for cell line selection.

The paper identifies differentially expressed genes in schizophrenia-associated neural progenitor cells, implicating WNT5A signaling in schizophrenia etiology.

This study identifies C4 genes in the MHC locus as sex-specific contributors to risk for lupus, Sjogrens syndrome, and schizophrenia, with stronger effects in men than women.

The study finds that rare copy number variants (CNVs) contribute to bipolar disorder risk primarily in schizoaffective disorder bipolar type cases, with differences in CNV burden and schizophrenia polygenic risk scores between subtypes.

This paper conducts a GWAS on suicide attempt across psychiatric disorders, identifying genetic loci and showing polygenic risk for major depression predicts suicide attempt in multiple disorders.

The paper analyzes rare variants to uncover mutation rate heterogeneity in the human genome, identifying genomic features that influence mutation rates.

This paper validates EHR-based BD phenotyping algorithms by showing their genetic correlation with traditional BD cases, suggesting they identify genetically similar cases.

This paper estimates narrow-sense heritability using identity-by-descent information in unrelated individuals and finds that IBD-based methods can capture rare variant contributions but are affected by stratification.

The paper confirms a polygenic effect on negative symptoms in schizophrenia using GWAS, identifies novel loci, and highlights the need for larger samples.

The paper investigates the genetic link between schizophrenia and substance use disorder, finding shared polygenic liability across multiple datasets.

The paper identifies OCD-associated genes by combining evolutionary and functional data with targeted sequencing in humans and animal models.