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Variability of DNA Methylation within Schizophrenia Risk Loci across Subregions of Human Hippocampus.

W Brad Ruzicka, Sivan Subburaju, Francine M Benes

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Article in Genes, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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6citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 27% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Schizophrenia.Nature reviews. Disease primers · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

W Brad RuzickaProgram in Structural and Molecular Neuroscience, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA 02478, USA. wruzicka@mclean.harvard.edu.
Sivan SubburajuProgram in Structural and Molecular Neuroscience, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA 02478, USA. ssubburaju@mclean.harvard.edu.
Francine M BenesProgram in Structural and Molecular Neuroscience, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA 02478, USA. fbenes@mclean.harvard.edu.
Harvard University · USMcLean Hospital · US

Funding

Neuronal and circuitry specific chromatin dynamics in psychotic disordersK08MH109759 · NIMH · MCLEAN HOSPITAL · PI RUZICKA, WILLIAM B · 2016 to 2019
$788k
NIMH NIH HHS K08 MH109759
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Identification of 108 genomic regions significantly associated with schizophrenia risk by the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium was a milestone for the field, and much work is now focused on determining the mechanism of risk associated with each locus. Within these regions, we investigated variability of DNA methylation, a low-level cellular phenotype closely linked to genotype, in two highly similar cellular populations sampled from the human hippocampus, to draw inferences about the elaboration of genotype to phenotype within these loci enriched for schizophrenia risk. DNA methylation was assessed with the Illumina HumanMethylation450 BeadArray in tissue laser-microdissected from the stratum oriens of subfield CA1 or CA2/3, regions having unique connectivity with intrinsic and extrinsic fiber systems within the hippocampus. Samples consisted of postmortem human hippocampus tissue from eight schizophrenia patients, eight bipolar disorder patients, and eight healthy control subjects. Within these genomic regions, we observed far greater difference in methylation patterns between circuit locations within subjects than in a single subregion between subjects across diagnostic groups, demonstrating the complexity of genotype to phenotype elaboration across the diverse circuitry of the human brain.

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bipolar disorderDNA methylationepigeneticshippocampusHumanMethylation450postmortem human brainschizophrenia

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PMID28505127
PMCPMC5448017
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