The road to precision psychiatry: Translating genetics into disease mechanisms

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 1397-1407

  Gandal, Michael J ^a,b   Leppa, Virpi ^a,b   Won, Hyejung ^a,b   Parikshak, Neelroop N ^a,b   Geschwind, Daniel H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE METHYLTRANSFERASE; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT; TRANSCRIPTOME;

AUTISM; BASIC RESEARCH; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; BIPOLAR DISORDER; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; DRUG SAFETY; EFFECT SIZE; EPILEPSY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOMICS; HERITABILITY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INHERITANCE; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROPSYCHIATRY; NONHUMAN; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; ANIMAL; GENETICS; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; MUTATION; PSYCHOTHERAPY;

ANIMALS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; MUTATION; PRECISION MEDICINE; PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 84994130171     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.4409     Document Type: Review

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