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ReviewAmerican journal of medical genetics. Part B, Neuropsychiatric genetics : the official publication of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics2018

Neuregulin 3 and its roles in schizophrenia risk and presentation.

Dimitrios Avramopoulos

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Review in American journal of medical genetics. Part B, Neuropsychiatric genetics : the official publication of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
19citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 21% 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

19 citing papers in PubMed, 31 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Dimitrios AvramopoulosInstitute of Genetic Medicine and Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.ORCID 0000-0003-1492-9104
Johns Hopkins University · US

Funding

Project 3P50MH094268 · NIMH · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI SAWA, AKIRA · 2011 to 2020
$19.9M
Neuropsychiatric Disease-focused Exploration of Neuronal Regulatory LandscapesR01MH106522 · NIMH · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI MCCALLION, ANDREW S · 2016 to 2021
$3.0M
NIMH NIH HHS P50 MH094268NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH106522
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neuregulins, a four-member family of epidermal growth factor-like signaling molecules, have been studied for over two decades. They were first implicated in schizophrenia in 2002 with the detection of linkage and association at the NRG1 locus followed after a few years by NRG3. However, the associations with disease have not been very consistently observed. In contrast, association of NGR3 variants with disease presentation, specifically the presence of delusions, has been more consistent. This appears to be mediated by quantitative changes in the alternative splicing of the gene, which has also been consistently observed. Additional diseases and phenotypes, psychiatric or not, have also been connected with NRG3. These results demonstrate two important aspects of behavioral genetics research. The first is that if we only consider simple risk and fail to examine the details of each patient's individual phenotype, we will miss important insights on the disease biology. This is an important aspect of the goals of precision medicine. The second is that the functional consequences of variants are often more complex than simple alterations in levels of transcription of a particular gene, including, among others, regulation of alternative splicing. To accurately model and understand the biological consequences of phenotype-associated genetic variants, we need to study the biological consequences of each specific variant. Simply studying the consequences of a null allele of the orthologous gene in a model system, runs the risk of missing the many nuances of hypomorphic and/or gain of function variants in the genome of interest.

Indexed as

Alternative SplicingGenetic LinkageGenotypeHumansNeuregulin-1NeuregulinsPhenotypePolymorphism, Single NucleotideRisk FactorsSchizophreniaNeuregulin-1NeuregulinsNRG3 protein, humandelusionsgene expressionneuregulinNRG3psychosisschizophrenia

Identifiers

PMID28556469
PMCPMC5735014
OpenAlexW2617060458

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