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Marc-antoine D'albis
A Multilevel Functional Study of aSNAP25At-Risk Variant for Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia
The synaptosomal-associated protein SNAP25 is a key player in synaptic vesicle docking and fusion and has been associated with multiple psychiatric conditions, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. We recently identified a promoter variant inSNAP25,rs6039769, that is associated with early-onset bipolar disorder and a higher gene expression level in human prefrontal cortex. In the current study, we showed that this variant was associated both in males and females with schizophrenia in two independent cohorts. We then combinedin vitroandin vivoapproaches in humans to understand the functional impact of the at-risk allele. Thus, we showedin vi…
Cerebellar parcellation in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder
International audience; Objective: The cerebellum is involved in cognitive processing and emotion control. Cerebellar alterations could explain symptoms of schizophrenia spectrum disorder (SZ) and bipolar disorder (BD). In addition, literature suggests that lithium might influence cerebellar anatomy. Our aim was to study cerebellar anatomy in SZ and BD, and investigate the effect of lithium.Methods: Participants from 7 centers worldwide underwent a 3T MRI. We included 182 patients with SZ, 144 patients with BD, and 322 controls. We automatically segmented the cerebellum using the CERES pipeline. All outputs were visually inspected.Results: Patients with SZ showed a smaller global cerebellar…
Aberrant Subnetwork and Hub Dysconnectivity in Adult Bipolar Disorder: A Multicenter Graph Theory Analysis
Abstract Neuroimaging evidence implicates structural network-level abnormalities in bipolar disorder (BD); however, there remain conflicting results in the current literature hampered by sample size limitations and clinical heterogeneity. Here, we set out to perform a multisite graph theory analysis to assess the extent of neuroanatomical dysconnectivity in a large representative study of individuals with BD. This cross-sectional multicenter international study assessed structural and diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging data obtained from 109 subjects with BD type 1 and 103 psychiatrically healthy volunteers. Whole-brain metrics, permutation-based statistics, and connectivity of h…
A MULTI-LEVEL FUNCTIONAL STUDY OF A SNAP25 AT-RISK VARIANT FOR BIPOLAR DISORDER AND SCHIZOPHRENIA
Background The synaptosomal associated protein SNAP25 is crucial for synaptic vesicle docking and fusion and has been associated with multiple psychiatric conditions. We recently identified a promoter variant in SNAP25, rs6039769, associated with bipolar disorder and gene expression in prefrontal cortex. Methods Here, we performed a genetic association study using this variation on two independent cohorts of 288 and 173 subjects with schizophrenia and 315 unaffected control individuals. We replicated our results using data from the schizophrenia group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium (PGC). Functional consequences combined both in vitro and post-mortem gene expression analysis on 30 p…