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ArticleTranslational psychiatry2018

Shared effects of DISC1 disruption and elevated WNT signaling in human cerebral organoids.

Priya Srikanth, Valentina N Lagomarsino, Christina R Muratore, Steven C Ryu, Amy He, Walter M Taylor, Constance Zhou, Marlise Arellano, Tracy L Young-Pearse

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Article in Translational psychiatry, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 50 papers.

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50 citing papers in PubMed, 68 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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9 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Priya SrikanthAnn Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Valentina N LagomarsinoAnn Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Christina R MuratoreAnn Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Steven C RyuAnn Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Amy HeAnn Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Walter M TaylorAnn Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0275-495X
Constance ZhouAnn Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Marlise ArellanoAnn Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Tracy L Young-PearseAnn Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. tyoung@rics.bwh.harvard.edu.
Brigham and Women's Hospital · US

Funding

Genes and developmental signaling pathways in neuropsychiatric disordersR01MH101148 · NIMH · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI YOUNG-PEARSE, TRACY L · 2014 to 2018
$2.5M
Identifying critical functions of DISC1 disrupted in major mental illnessF30MH103890 · NIMH · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI SRIKANTH, PRIYA · 2014 to 2015
$83k
NIMH NIH HHS F30 MH103890NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH101148
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The development of three-dimensional culture methods has allowed for the study of developing cortical morphology in human cells. This provides a new tool to study the neurodevelopmental consequences of disease-associated mutations. Here, we study the effects of isogenic DISC1 mutation in cerebral organoids. DISC1 has been implicated in psychiatric disease based on genetic studies, including its interruption by a balanced translocation that increases the risk of major mental illness. Isogenic wild-type and DISC1-disrupted human-induced pluripotent stem cells were used to generate cerebral organoids, which were then examined for morphology and gene expression. We show that DISC1-mutant cerebral organoids display disorganized structural morphology and impaired proliferation, which is phenocopied by WNT agonism and rescued by WNT antagonism. Furthermore, there are many shared changes in gene expression with DISC1 disruption and WNT agonism, including in neural progenitor and cell fate markers, regulators of neuronal migration, and interneuron markers. These shared gene expression changes suggest mechanisms for the observed morphologic dysregulation with DISC1 disruption and points to new avenues for future studies. The shared changes in three-dimensional cerebral organoid morphology and gene expression with DISC1 interruption and WNT agonism further strengthens the link between DISC1 mutation, abnormalities in WNT signaling, and neuropsychiatric disease.

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Wnt Signaling PathwayApoptosisCell ProliferationCerebral CortexGene ExpressionHumansInduced Pluripotent Stem CellsNerve Tissue ProteinsOrganoidsTissue Culture TechniquesDISC1 protein, humanNerve Tissue Proteins

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PMCPMC5895714
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