https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Index en-au 5 No reliable association between runs of homozygosity and schizophrenia in a well-powered replication study https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:27630 Froh and schizophrenia (β = 4.86,CI(β) = [0.90,8.83],Z = 2.40,p = 0.02). Since Keller et al. (2012), several studies reported inconsistent association of ROH burden with complex traits, particularly in case-control data. These conflicting results might suggest that the effects of autozygosity are confounded by various factors, such as socioeconomic status, education, urbanicity, and religiosity, which may be associated with both real inbreeding and the outcome measures of interest.]]> Wed 11 Apr 2018 14:15:34 AEST ]]> Biological insights from 108 schizophrenia-associated genetic loci https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:21465 DRD2 and several genes involved in glutamatergic neurotransmission highlight molecules of known and potential therapeutic relevance to schizophrenia, and are consistent with leading pathophysiological hypotheses. Independent of genes expressed in brain, associations were enriched among genes expressed in tissues that have important roles in immunity, providing support for the speculated link between the immune system and schizophrenia.]]> Sat 24 Mar 2018 07:52:31 AEDT ]]> Schizophrenia risk from complex variation of complement component 4 https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:30050 Sat 24 Mar 2018 07:31:15 AEDT ]]> Modeling linkage disequilibrium increases accuracy of polygenic risk scores https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:23379 2 increased from 20.1% to 25.3% in a large schizophrenia dataset and from 9.8% to 12.0% in a large multiple sclerosis dataset. A similar relative improvement in accuracy was observed for three additional large disease datasets and for non-European schizophrenia samples. The advantage of LDpred over existing methods will grow as sample sizes increase.]]> Sat 24 Mar 2018 07:16:29 AEDT ]]>