Communications Biology (Jan 2022)

Cross-tissue transcriptome-wide association studies identify susceptibility genes shared between schizophrenia and inflammatory bowel disease

  • Florian Uellendahl-Werth,
  • Carlo Maj,
  • Oleg Borisov,
  • Simonas Juzenas,
  • Eike Matthias Wacker,
  • Isabella Friis Jørgensen,
  • Tim Alexander Steiert,
  • Saptarshi Bej,
  • Peter Krawitz,
  • Per Hoffmann,
  • Christoph Schramm,
  • Olaf Wolkenhauer,
  • Karina Banasik,
  • Søren Brunak,
  • Stefan Schreiber,
  • Tom Hemming Karlsen,
  • Franziska Degenhardt,
  • Markus Nöthen,
  • Andre Franke,
  • Trine Folseraas,
  • David Ellinghaus

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03031-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Florian Uellendahl-Werth et al. conduct cross-tissue transcriptome-wide association studies to explore genetic mechanisms shared across immune-related and psychiatric traits. Their results identify several genes (including PPP3CA) that could mediate the interplay between psychiatric and inflammatory disease.