Sevilla D Detera-Wadleigh, Layla Kassem, Emily Besancon, Fabiana Lopes, Nirmala Akula, Heejong Sung, Meghan Blattner, Laura Sheridan, Ley Nadine Lacbawan, Joshua Garcia, Francis Gordovez, Katherine Hosey, Cassandra Donner, Claudio Salvini, Thomas Schulze, David T W Chen, Bryce England, Joanna Cross, Xueying Jiang, Winston Corona, Jill Russ, Barbara Mallon, Amalia Dutra, Evgenia Pak, Joe Steiner, Nasir Malik, Theresa de Guzman, Natia Horato, Mariana B Mallmann, Victoria Mendes, Amanda L Dűck, Antonio E Nardi, Francis J McMahon
Genome-wide (GWAS) and copy number variant (CNV) association studies have reproducibly identified numerous risk alleles associated with bipolar disorder (BD), major depressive disorder (MDD), and schizophrenia (SCZ), but biological characterization of these alleles lags gene discovery, owing to the inaccessibility of live human brain cells and inadequate animal models for human psychiatric conditions. Human-derived induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) provide a renewable cellular reagent that can be differentiated into living, disease-relevant cells and 3D brain organoids carrying the full complement of genetic variants present in the donor germline...
December 16, 2023: Translational Psychiatry