Junping Ye, Zhanwang Huang, Qiyang Li, Zhongwei Li, Yuting Lan, Zhongju Wang, Chaoying Ni, Xiaohui Wu, Tingyun Jiang, Yujing Li, Qiong Yang, Junghwa Lim, Cun-Yan Ren, Meijun Jiang, Shufen Li, Peng Jin, Jian-Huan Chen, Cunyou Zhao
BACKGROUND: Major psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia (SCZ) and bipolar disorder (BPD) are complex genetic mental illnesses. Their non-Mendelian features, such as those observed in monozygotic twins discordant for SCZ or BPD, are likely complicated by environmental modifiers of genetic effects. 5-Hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC) is an important epigenetic mark in gene regulation, and whether it is linked to genetic variants that contribute to non-Mendelian features remains largely unexplored...
December 12, 2023: BMC Medicine