Nature Communications (Jun 2021)

Systematic analysis of exonic germline and postzygotic de novo mutations in bipolar disorder

  • Masaki Nishioka,
  • An-a Kazuno,
  • Takumi Nakamura,
  • Naomi Sakai,
  • Takashi Hayama,
  • Kumiko Fujii,
  • Koji Matsuo,
  • Atsuko Komori,
  • Mizuho Ishiwata,
  • Yoshinori Watanabe,
  • Takashi Oka,
  • Nana Matoba,
  • Muneko Kataoka,
  • Ahmed N. Alkanaq,
  • Kohei Hamanaka,
  • Takashi Tsuboi,
  • Toru Sengoku,
  • Kazuhiro Ogata,
  • Nakao Iwata,
  • Masashi Ikeda,
  • Naomichi Matsumoto,
  • Tadafumi Kato,
  • Atsushi Takata

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23453-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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The significance of rare and de novo variants in bipolar disorder is not well understood. Here, the authors have analyzed whole exome/genome data from trios to identify deleterious de novo variants associated with bipolar disorder.