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Focus on Causality in ESC/iPSC-Based Modeling of Psychiatric Disorders.

Anke Hoffmann, Michael Ziller, Dietmar Spengler

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Review in Cells, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
11citing papers in PubMed
2.9field-weighted citation impact, top 9% 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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Psychiatric Genomics 2025: State of the Art and the Path Forward.The Psychiatric clinics of North America · 2025
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  5. Neurobiology of stress · 2023
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  7. In Vitro Recapitulation of Neuropsychiatric Disorders with Pluripotent Stem Cells-Derived Brain Organoids.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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  9. Single-Cell Transcriptomics Supports a Role ofInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2021
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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 1 institution in 1 country.

Anke HoffmannDepartment of Translational Research in Psychiatry, Max-Planck Institute of Psychiatry, 80804 Munich, Germany.
Michael ZillerDepartment of Translational Research in Psychiatry, Max-Planck Institute of Psychiatry, 80804 Munich, Germany.
Dietmar SpenglerDepartment of Translational Research in Psychiatry, Max-Planck Institute of Psychiatry, 80804 Munich, Germany.
Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified an increasing number of genetic variants that significantly associate with psychiatric disorders. Despite this wealth of information, our knowledge of which variants causally contribute to disease, how they interact, and even more so of the functions they regulate, is still poor. The availability of embryonic stem cells (ESCs) and the advent of patient-specific induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) has opened new opportunities to investigate genetic risk variants in living disease-relevant cells. Here, we analyze how this progress has contributed to the analysis of causal relationships between genetic risk variants and neuronal phenotypes, especially in schizophrenia (SCZ) and bipolar disorder (BD). Studies on rare, highly penetrant risk variants have originally led the field, until more recently when the development of (epi-) genetic editing techniques spurred studies on cause-effect relationships between common low risk variants and their associated neuronal phenotypes. This reorientation not only offers new insights, but also raises issues on interpretability. Concluding, we consider potential caveats and upcoming developments in the field of ESC/iPSC-based modeling of causality in psychiatric disorders.

Indexed as

Models, BiologicalCausalityGenome-Wide Association StudyHuman Embryonic Stem CellsHumansInduced Pluripotent Stem CellsMental Disordersbipolar disordercommon variationcopy number variation(epi-) genomic editingmassively parallel reporter assayspatient-specific iPSCsschizophrenia

Identifiers

PMID32033412
PMCPMC7072492
OpenAlexW3004645307

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