Nature Communications (Sep 2021)

Genome-wide sequencing-based identification of methylation quantitative trait loci and their role in schizophrenia risk

  • Kira A. Perzel Mandell,
  • Nicholas J. Eagles,
  • Richard Wilton,
  • Amanda J. Price,
  • Stephen A. Semick,
  • Leonardo Collado-Torres,
  • William S. Ulrich,
  • Ran Tao,
  • Shizhong Han,
  • Alexander S. Szalay,
  • Thomas M. Hyde,
  • Joel E. Kleinman,
  • Daniel R. Weinberger,
  • Andrew E. Jaffe

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25517-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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The authors provide a comprehensive, single base resolution view of association between genetic variation and DNA methylation in human brain. They also show that heritability attributed to schizophrenia GWAS-associated variants reflects the epigenetic plasticity of the brain.