supported in part by the STI2030-Major Projects(Grant No.2022ZD0213700);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.62136004,61973255,and 61936007);the Natural Science Basic Research Program of Shaanxi(Grant No.2020JM-142);the Innovation Foundation for Doctor Dissertation at Northwestern Polytechnical University,China(Grant No.CX2023062).
Identifying genetic risk factors for Alzheimer's disease(AD)is an important research topic.To date,different endophenotypes,such as imaging-derived endophenotypes and proteomic expression-derived endophenotypes,have s...
supported by the Italian Ministry for University,Scientific Research and Technology;the Italian Ministry of Health,the Fondazione Giuseppe e Mafalda Luce(Milan,Italy);Autism Aid ONLUS(Naples,Italy);the Autism Speaks Foundation(Princeton,NJ);the Autism Research Institute(San Diego,CA);the European Union(IMI project EU-AIMS)
Autism is a complex neuropsychiatric disorder of developmental origin, where multiple genetic and environmental factors likely interact resulting in a clinical continuum between "affected" and "unaffected" individuals...
funded by a grant from the Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad,Spanish Government(PSI2012-31660).
The development of excessive and persistent drinking under intermittent food-reinforcement schedules, known Schedule-induced polydipsia (SIP), has been proposed as a successful animal model to study compulsive behavio...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China,No. 30770770,30971054,and81171290;Science Foundation for the Youth of Shanxi,No.2011021036-1
The norepinephrine transporter plays an important role in the pathophysiology and pharmacological treatment of major depressive disorder. Consequently, the norepinephrine transporter gene is an attractive candidate in...
The identification of genes that contribute to the susceptibilities to complex neuropsychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, major depression and bipolar disorders has not been as successful using conventional gen...
The Autism Research Group in the Department of Psychiatry University of Hong Kong is grateful for donation funding from ING Asia/Pacific
The term "neurodevelopmental disorder" broadly encompasses conditions thought to arise early in development and includes schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and autism among others. These conditions share a number of gene...
Endophenotypes are heritable quantitative traits that are associated with disease liability, can be measured in both affected and unaffected individuals, and provide much greater power to localize and identify risk ge...
supported by the Hong Kong Research Grants Council General Research Fund (HKU 766906M and HKU 774707M);the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme under grant agreement No. HEALTH-F2-2010-241909 (Project EU-GEI);the University of Hong Kong (HKU) Strategic Research Theme of Genomics, HKU Small Project Funding (201007176248);the National Institute of Mental Health of the USA (1K01MH086714)
The endophenotype concept was initially proposed to enhance the power of genetic studies of complex disorders. It is closely related to the genetic component in a liability-threshold model; a perfect endophenotype sho...
supported partially by the Key Laboratory of Mental Health,Institute of Psychology, Project-Oriented Hundred Talents Programme (O7CX031003);the Knowledge Innovation Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (KSCX2-YW-R-131);National Natural Science Foundation of China (30770723);National Outstanding Young Investigator Award (81088001);a grant from National Basic Research Programme of China (973 Program) (2007CB512302)
Increasing efforts to identify alternate expressions of neuropsychiatric disorders that are broader than the DSM or ICD diagnostic criteria needed to diagnose them reflects a growing consensus that multidimensional ex...