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ReviewMolecular psychiatry2020

Aberrant glycosylation in schizophrenia: a review of 25 years of post-mortem brain studies.

Sarah E Williams, Robert G Mealer, Edward M Scolnick, Jordan W Smoller, Richard D Cummings

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Review in Molecular psychiatry, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
39citing papers in PubMed
3.6field-weighted citation impact, top 6% 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

39 citing papers in PubMed, 76 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Schizophrenia: from mechanism to therapy.Science China. Life sciences · 2026
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  12. O-GalNAc glycans are enriched in neuronal tracts and regulate nodes of Ranvier.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  13. Dynamic glycosylation remodeling in neurological disorders.Frontiers in molecular neuroscience · 2025
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  15. The restricted N-glycome of neurons is programmed during differentiation.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024
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  18. Phenols and GABAFrontiers in pharmacology · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Sarah E Williams *Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Robert G Mealer *Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. rmealer@partners.org.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5963-2836
Edward M ScolnickDepartment of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Jordan W SmollerDepartment of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Richard D CummingsDepartment of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Broad Institute · USBeth Israel Deaconess Medical Center · US

Funding

Translational Neuroscience Training for CliniciansT32MH112485 · NIMH · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI BUCKNER, RANDY L, ROFFMAN, JOSHUA LAWRENCE · 2018 to 2022
$1.7M
NIMH NIH HHS T32 MH112485
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Glycosylation, the enzymatic attachment of carbohydrates to proteins and lipids, regulates nearly all cellular processes and is critical in the development and function of the nervous system. Axon pathfinding, neurite outgrowth, synaptogenesis, neurotransmission, and many other neuronal processes are regulated by glycans. Over the past 25 years, studies analyzing post-mortem brain samples have found evidence of aberrant glycosylation in individuals with schizophrenia. Proteins involved in both excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmission display altered glycans in the disease state, including AMPA and kainate receptor subunits, glutamate transporters EAAT1 and EAAT2, and the GABA

Indexed as

SchizophreniaBrainGenome-Wide Association StudyGlycosylationHumansKainic Acid ReceptorsKainic Acid Receptors

Identifiers

PMID32404945
PMCPMC8081047
OpenAlexW3024849208

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