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ReviewCurrent opinion in neurobiology2021

Applying stem cells and CRISPR engineering to uncover the etiology of schizophrenia.

Peter James Michael Deans, Kristen J Brennand

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Review in Current opinion in neurobiology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Functional genomic profiling of schizophrenia-associated genes reveals key microglial regulators.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Peter James Michael DeansPamela Sklar Division of Psychiatric Genomics, Department of Genetics and Genomics, Icahn Institute of Genomics and Multiscale Biology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA; Nash Family Department of Neuroscience, Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA; Black Family Stem Cell Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA.
Kristen J BrennandPamela Sklar Division of Psychiatric Genomics, Department of Genetics and Genomics, Icahn Institute of Genomics and Multiscale Biology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA; Nash Family Department of Neuroscience, Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA; Black Family Stem Cell Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA. Electronic address: kristen.brennand@yale.edu.

Funding

Higher Order Chromatin and Genetic Risk for SchizophreniaR01MH106056 · NIMH · ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI · PI AKBARIAN, SCHAHRAM, BRENNAND, KRISTEN JENNIFER · 2015 to 2023
$6.7M
Cell-type-specific NRXN1alpha alternative splicing changes in psychiatric diseaseR01MH121074 · NIMH · ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI · PI BRENNAND, KRISTEN JENNIFER, FANG, GANG · 2019 to 2023
$4.4M
Integrated Multiscale Networks in SchizophreniaR01MH109897 · NIMH · ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI · PI BRENNAND, KRISTEN JENNIFER, ROUSSOS, PANAGIOTIS · 2016 to 2020
$3.0M
Modeling the contribution of common variants to schizophrenia riskR56MH101454 · NIMH · ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI · PI BRENNAND, KRISTEN JENNIFER, HUCKINS, LAURA MARIANNE · 2018 to 2019
$1.5M
NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH106056NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH109897NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH121074NIMH NIH HHS R56 MH101454
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Schizophrenia is a highly heritable, polygenic disorder. A growing list of common genetic variants have been associated with schizophrenia; there is a clear need to understand the role of these risk factors in the etiology of disease. The majority of these variants occur in noncoding regions of the genome and are thought to regulate the expression of one or more genes in a cell type-specific fashion. Recent advances in stem cell biology and molecular genetics have resulted in two invaluable advances: hiPSC technology makes possible the generation of donor-specific disease-relevant neural cell types, whereas CRISPR-based techniques can be applied to manipulate individual variants and/or their gene targets. New multiplexed gene manipulation and CRISPR screening techniques show great promise toward dissecting the complex interactions between the myriad disease-associated variants. This review outlines key advances in hiPSC and CRISPR technology, describing their applications and future potential in the field of schizophrenia research.

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Induced Pluripotent Stem CellsSchizophreniaGenetic TechniquesGenomeHumansNeurons

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PMID34010781
PMCPMC8387340

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