Search Results - "Pistis, Giorgio"
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Obesity and atypical depression symptoms: findings from Mendelian randomization in two European cohorts
Published in Translational psychiatry (04-02-2021)“…Studies considering the causal role of body mass index (BMI) for the predisposition of major depressive disorder (MDD) based on a Mendelian Randomization (MR)…”
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Increased serum hepcidin levels in subjects with the metabolic syndrome: a population study
Published in PloS one (29-10-2012)“…The recent discovery of hepcidin, the key iron regulatory hormone, has changed our view of iron metabolism, which in turn is long known to be linked with…”
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Prediction of antipsychotics efficacy based on a polygenic risk score: a real-world cohort study
Published in Frontiers in pharmacology (2024)“…Response to antipsychotics is subject to a wide interindividual variability, due to genetic and non-genetic factors. Several single nucleotide polymorphisms…”
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Transcriptome-based polygenic score links depression-related corticolimbic gene expression changes to sex-specific brain morphology and depression risk
Published in Neuropsychopharmacology (New York, N.Y.) (01-12-2021)“…Studies in post-mortem human brain tissue have associated major depressive disorder (MDD) with cortical transcriptomic changes, whose potential in vivo impact…”
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Cholesterol-metabolism, plant sterols, and long-term cognitive decline in older people – Effects of sex and APOEe4
Published in iScience (16-02-2024)“…Neurodegenerative, vascular, and dementia diseases are linked to dysregulations in cholesterol metabolism. Dietary plant sterols, or phytosterols, may…”
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Association analysis of bitter receptor genes in five isolated populations identifies a significant correlation between TAS2R43 variants and coffee liking
Published in PloS one (19-03-2014)“…Coffee, one of the most popular beverages in the world, contains many different physiologically active compounds with a potential impact on people's health…”
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Environmental factors in offspring of parents with mood disorders and their role in parent–child transmission: findings from a 14-year prospective high-risk study
Published in International Journal of Bipolar Disorders (06-04-2022)“…Background The factors involved in the transmission of mood disorders are only partially elucidated. Aside from genes, the family environment might play a…”
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Heritability and demographic analyses in the large isolated population of Val Borbera suggest advantages in mapping complex traits genes
Published in PloS one (22-10-2009)“…Isolated populations are a useful resource for mapping complex traits due to shared stable environment, reduced genetic complexity and extended Linkage…”
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Correction: Increased Serum Hepcidin Levels in Subjects with the Metabolic Syndrome: A Population Study
Published in PloS one (26-06-2013)“…[This corrects the article on p. e48250 in vol. 7.]…”
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Genome wide association analysis of a founder population identified TAF3 as a gene for MCHC in humans
Published in PloS one (31-07-2013)“…The red blood cell related traits are highly heritable but their genetics are poorly defined. Only 5-10% of the total observed variance is explained by the…”
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High differentiation among eight villages in a secluded area of Sardinia revealed by genome-wide high density SNPs analysis
Published in PloS one (27-02-2009)“…To better design association studies for complex traits in isolated populations it's important to understand how history and isolation moulded the genetic…”
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Minimal phenotyping yields genome-wide association signals of low specificity for major depression
Published in Nature genetics (01-04-2020)“…Minimal phenotyping refers to the reliance on the use of a small number of self-reported items for disease case identification, increasingly used in…”
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Genome sequencing elucidates Sardinian genetic architecture and augments association analyses for lipid and blood inflammatory markers
Published in Nature genetics (01-11-2015)“…Gonçalo Abecasis, Francesco Cucca, David Schlessinger, Serena Sanna and colleagues report ~17.6 million genetic variants from whole-genome sequencing of 2,120…”
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Genetic Association of Major Depression With Atypical Features and Obesity-Related Immunometabolic Dysregulations
Published in JAMA psychiatry (Chicago, Ill.) (01-12-2017)“…The association between major depressive disorder (MDD) and obesity may stem from shared immunometabolic mechanisms particularly evident in MDD with atypical…”
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Genomic history of the Sardinian population
Published in Nature genetics (01-10-2018)“…The population of the Mediterranean island of Sardinia has made important contributions to genome-wide association studies of complex disease traits and, based…”
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Prevalence and correlates of DSM-5 major depressive and related disorders in the community
Published in Psychiatry research (01-04-2017)“…Abstract Although the DSM-5 has suggested the two new categories of Persistent Depressive Disorders (PDD) and Other Specified Depressive Disorders (OSDD), no…”
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Gene set enrichment analysis of pathophysiological pathways highlights oxidative stress in psychosis
Published in Molecular psychiatry (01-12-2022)“…Polygenic risk prediction remains an important aim of genetic association studies. Currently, the predictive power of schizophrenia polygenic risk scores…”
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Genome-wide association analyses based on whole-genome sequencing in Sardinia provide insights into regulation of hemoglobin levels
Published in Nature genetics (01-11-2015)“…Francesco Cucca, Serena Sanna, David Schlessinger, Gonçalo Abecasis and colleagues report genome-wide association analysis results for the levels of A1, A2 and…”
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Common Variants in UMOD Associate with Urinary Uromodulin Levels: A Meta-Analysis
Published in Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (01-08-2014)“…Uromodulin is expressed exclusively in the thick ascending limb and is the most abundant protein excreted in normal urine. Variants in UMOD, which encodes…”
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