Richard E. Straub

Brief Communication The Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor val66met Polymorphism and Variation in Human Cortical Morphology (2008)

Lukas Pezawas, Beth A. Verchinski, Venkata S. Mattay, Joseph H. Callicott, Bhaskar S. Kolachana, Richard E. Straub, ...

A variation in the BDNF gene (val66met) affects the function of BDNF in neurons, predicts variation in human memory, and is associated with several neurological and psychiatric disorders. Here, we...

Variants in the estrogen receptor alpha gene and its mRNA contribute to risk for schizophrenia (2008)

Weickert, Cynthia Shannon, Miranda-Angulo, Ana L., Wong, Jenny, Perlman, William R., Ward, Sarah E., Radhakrishna, Vakkalanka, ...

Estrogen modifies human emotion and cognition and impacts symptoms of schizophrenia. We hypothesized that the variation in the estrogen receptor alpha (ESR1) gene and cortical ESR1 mRNA is associated...

{alpha}7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor mRNA expression and binding in postmortem human brain are associated with genetic variation in neuregulin 1 (2007)

Mathew, Shiny V., Law, Amanda J., Lipska, Barbara K., Dávila-García, Martha I., Zamora, Eduardo D., Mitkus, Shruti N., ...

Studies in cell culture and in animals suggest that neuregulin 1 (NRG1), a probable schizophrenia susceptibility gene, regulates the expression of the α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs)....

Expression of DISC1 binding partners is reduced in schizophrenia and associated with DISC1 SNPs (2006)

Lipska, Barbara K., Peters, Tricia, Hyde, Thomas M., Halim, Nader, Horowitz, Cara, Mitkus, Shruti, ...

DISC1 has been identified as a schizophrenia susceptibility gene based on linkage and SNP association studies and clinical data suggesting that risk SNPs impact on hippocampal structure and function....

RGS4 mRNA Expression in Postmortem Human Cortex Is Associated with COMT Val158Met Genotype and COMT Enzyme Activity (2006)

Lipska, Barbara K., Mitkus, Shruti, Caruso, Mark, Hyde, Thomas M., Chen, Jingshan, Vakkalanka, Radhakrishna, ...

Linkage, association and post-mortem studies have implicated regulator of G protein signaling 4 (RGS4), which negatively modulates signal transduction at G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs), as a...

RGS4 mRNA expression in postmortem human cortex is associated with COMT Val158Met genotype and COMT enzyme activity (2006)

Lipska, Barbara K., Mitkus, Shruti, Caruso, Mark, Hyde, Thomas M., Chen, Jingshan, Vakkalanka, Radhakrishna, ...

Linkage, association and postmortem studies have implicated regulator of G-protein signaling 4 (RGS4), which negatively modulates signal transduction at G-protein-coupled receptors, as a candidate...

Evidence of novel neuronal functions of dysbindin, a susceptibility gene for schizophrenia (2004)

Numakawa, Tadahiro, Yagasaki, Yuki, Ishimoto, Tetsuya, Okada, Takeya, Suzuki, Tatsuyo, Iwata, Nakao, ...

Genetic variation in dysbindin (DTNBP1: dystrobrevin binding protein 1) has recently been shown to be associated with schizophrenia. The dysbindin gene is located at chromosome 6p22.3, one of the...

Evidence of novel neuronal functions of dysbindin, a susceptibility gene for schizophrenia (2004)

Numakawa, Tadahiro, Yagasaki, Yuki, Ishimoto, Tetsuya, Okada, Takeya, Suzuki, Tatsuyo, Iwata, Nakao, ...

Genetic variation in dysbindin (DTNBP1: dystrobrevin binding protein 1) has recently been shown to be associated with schizophrenia. The dysbindin gene is located at chromosome 6p22.3, one of the...

Genome scan meta-analysis of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, part II: Schizophrenia (2003)

Lewis, Cathryn M, Levinson, Douglas F, Wise, Lesley H, DeLisi, Lynn E, Straub, Richard E, Hovatta, Iiris, ...

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Effect of COMT Val108/158 Met genotype on frontal lobe function and risk for schizophrenia

Egan, Michael F., Goldberg, Terry E., Kolachana, Bhaskar S., Callicott, Joseph H., Mazzanti, Chiara M., Straub, Richard E., ...

Abnormalities of prefrontal cortical function are prominent features of schizophrenia and have been associated with genetic risk, suggesting that susceptibility genes for schizophrenia may impact on...

Genetic and physiological data implicating the new human gene G72 and the gene for d-amino acid oxidase in schizophrenia

Chumakov, Ilya, Blumenfeld, Marta, Guerassimenko, Oxana, Cavarec, Laurent, Palicio, Marta, Abderrahim, Hadi, ...

A map of 191 single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNPs) was built across a 5-Mb segment from chromosome 13q34 that has been genetically linked to schizophrenia. DNA from 213 schizophrenic patients and 241...

Variation in GRM3 affects cognition, prefrontal glutamate, and risk for schizophrenia

Egan, Michael F., Straub, Richard E., Goldberg, Terry E., Yakub, Imtiaz, Callicott, Joseph H., Hariri, Ahmad R., ...

GRM3, a metabotropic glutamate receptor-modulating synaptic glutamate, is a promising schizophrenia candidate gene. In a family-based association study, a common GRM3 haplotype was strongly...

Variation in DISC1 affects hippocampal structure and function and increases risk for schizophrenia

Callicott, Joseph H., Straub, Richard E., Pezawas, Lukas, Egan, Michael F., Mattay, Venkata S., Hariri, Ahmad R., ...

Disrupted-in-schizophrenia 1 (DISC1) is a promising schizophrenia candidate gene expressed predominantly within the hippocampus. We typed 12 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that covered the...

Multicenter Linkage Study of Schizophrenia Candidate Regions on Chromosomes 5q, 6q, 10p, and 13q: Schizophrenia Linkage Collaborative Group III*

Levinson, Douglas F., Holmans, Peter, Straub, Richard E., Owen, Michael J., Wildenauer, Dieter B., Gejman, Pablo V., ...

Schizophrenia candidate regions 33–51 cM in length on chromosomes 5q, 6q, 10p, and 13q were investigated for genetic linkage with mapped markers with an average spacing of 5.64 cM. We studied 734...

The Trimmed-Haplotype Test for Linkage Disequilibrium

MacLean, Charles J., Martin, Rory B., Sham, Pak C., Wang, Huan, Straub, Richard E., Kendler, Kenneth S.

Single-marker linkage-disequilibrium (LD) methods cannot fully describe disequilibrium in an entire chromosomal region surrounding a disease allele. With the advent of myriad tightly linked...

Neuregulin 1 transcripts are differentially expressed in schizophrenia and regulated by 5′ SNPs associated with the disease

Law, Amanda J., Lipska, Barbara K., Weickert, Cynthia Shannon, Hyde, Thomas M., Straub, Richard E., Hashimoto, Ryota, ...

Genetic variation in neuregulin 1 (NRG1) is associated with schizophrenia. The disease-associated SNPs are noncoding, and their functional implications remain unknown. We hypothesized that...

Effect of COMT Val108/158 Met genotype on frontal lobe function and risk for schizophrenia

Egan, Michael F., Goldberg, Terry E., Kolachana, Bhaskar S., Callicott, Joseph H., Mazzanti, Chiara M., Straub, Richard E., ...

Abnormalities of prefrontal cortical function are prominent features of schizophrenia and have been associated with genetic risk, suggesting that susceptibility genes for schizophrenia may impact on...

Genetic and physiological data implicating the new human gene G72 and the gene for d-amino acid oxidase in schizophrenia

Chumakov, Ilya, Blumenfeld, Marta, Guerassimenko, Oxana, Cavarec, Laurent, Palicio, Marta, Abderrahim, Hadi, ...

A map of 191 single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNPs) was built across a 5-Mb segment from chromosome 13q34 that has been genetically linked to schizophrenia. DNA from 213 schizophrenic patients and 241...

Genetic Variation in the 6p22.3 Gene DTNBP1, the Human Ortholog of the Mouse Dysbindin Gene, Is Associated with Schizophrenia

Straub, Richard E., Jiang, Yuxin, MacLean, Charles J., Ma, Yunlong, Webb, Bradley T., Myakishev, Maxim V., ...

Prior evidence has supported the existence of multiple susceptibility genes for schizophrenia. Multipoint linkage analysis of the 270 Irish high-density pedigrees that we have studied, as well as...

Variation in GRM3 affects cognition, prefrontal glutamate, and risk for schizophrenia

Egan, Michael F., Straub, Richard E., Goldberg, Terry E., Yakub, Imtiaz, Callicott, Joseph H., Hariri, Ahmad R., ...

GRM3, a metabotropic glutamate receptor-modulating synaptic glutamate, is a promising schizophrenia candidate gene. In a family-based association study, a common GRM3 haplotype was strongly...

Variation in DISC1 affects hippocampal structure and function and increases risk for schizophrenia

Callicott, Joseph H., Straub, Richard E., Pezawas, Lukas, Egan, Michael F., Mattay, Venkata S., Hariri, Ahmad R., ...

Disrupted-in-schizophrenia 1 (DISC1) is a promising schizophrenia candidate gene expressed predominantly within the hippocampus. We typed 12 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that covered the...

Genome Scan Meta-Analysis of Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder, Part II: Schizophrenia

Lewis, Cathryn M., Levinson, Douglas F., Wise, Lesley H., DeLisi, Lynn E., Straub, Richard E., Hovatta, Iiris, ...

Schizophrenia is a common disorder with high heritability and a 10-fold increase in risk to siblings of probands. Replication has been inconsistent for reports of significant genetic linkage. To...

Multicenter Linkage Study of Schizophrenia Candidate Regions on Chromosomes 5q, 6q, 10p, and 13q: Schizophrenia Linkage Collaborative Group III*

Levinson, Douglas F., Holmans, Peter, Straub, Richard E., Owen, Michael J., Wildenauer, Dieter B., Gejman, Pablo V., ...

Schizophrenia candidate regions 33–51 cM in length on chromosomes 5q, 6q, 10p, and 13q were investigated for genetic linkage with mapped markers with an average spacing of 5.64 cM. We studied 734...

The Trimmed-Haplotype Test for Linkage Disequilibrium

MacLean, Charles J., Martin, Rory B., Sham, Pak C., Wang, Huan, Straub, Richard E., Kendler, Kenneth S.

Single-marker linkage-disequilibrium (LD) methods cannot fully describe disequilibrium in an entire chromosomal region surrounding a disease allele. With the advent of myriad tightly linked...

Neuregulin 1 transcripts are differentially expressed in schizophrenia and regulated by 5′ SNPs associated with the disease

Law, Amanda J., Lipska, Barbara K., Weickert, Cynthia Shannon, Hyde, Thomas M., Straub, Richard E., Hashimoto, Ryota, ...

Genetic variation in neuregulin 1 (NRG1) is associated with schizophrenia. The disease-associated SNPs are noncoding, and their functional implications remain unknown. We hypothesized that...

Genetic evidence implicating DARPP-32 in human frontostriatal structure, function, and cognition

Meyer-Lindenberg, Andreas, Straub, Richard E., Lipska, Barbara K., Verchinski, Beth A., Goldberg, Terry, Callicott, Joseph H., ...

Dopamine- and cAMP-regulated phosphoprotein of molecular weight 32 kDa (DARPP-32), encoded by PPP1R1B, is a pivotal integrator of information in dopaminoceptive neurons, regulating the response to...

Genetic variation in AKT1 is linked to dopamine-associated prefrontal cortical structure and function in humans

Tan, Hao-Yang, Nicodemus, Kristin K., Chen, Qiang, Li, Zhen, Brooke, Jennifer K., Honea, Robyn, ...

AKT1-dependent molecular pathways control diverse aspects of cellular development and adaptation, including interactions with neuronal dopaminergic signaling. If AKT1 has an impact on dopaminergic...

Variants in the estrogen receptor alpha gene and its mRNA contribute to risk for schizophrenia

Weickert, Cynthia Shannon, Miranda-Angulo, Ana L., Wong, Jenny, Perlman, William R., Ward, Sarah E., Radhakrishna, Vakkalanka, ...

Estrogen modifies human emotion and cognition and impacts symptoms of schizophrenia. We hypothesized that the variation in the estrogen receptor alpha (ESR1) gene and cortical ESR1 mRNA is associated...

The evolutionarily conserved G protein-coupled receptor SREB2/GPR85 influences brain size, behavior, and vulnerability to schizophrenia

Matsumoto, Mitsuyuki, Straub, Richard E., Marenco, Stefano, Nicodemus, Kristin K., Matsumoto, Shun-ichiro, Fujikawa, Akihiko, ...

The G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) family is highly diversified and involved in many forms of information processing. SREB2 (GPR85) is the most conserved GPCR throughout vertebrate evolution and...

Functional Polymorphisms in PRODH Are Associated with Risk and Protection for Schizophrenia and Fronto-Striatal Structure and Function

Kempf, Lucas, Nicodemus, Kristin K., Kolachana, Bhaskar, Vakkalanka, Radhakrishna, Verchinski, Beth A., Egan, Michael F., ...

PRODH, encoding proline oxidase (POX), has been associated with schizophrenia through linkage, association, and the 22q11 deletion syndrome (Velo-Cardio-Facial syndrome). Here, we show in a...