Transcriptome-informed brain cartography of polygenic risk and association with brain structure in major psychiatric disorders

Psychiatric disorders are complex, polygenic conditions characterized by patterned structural brain alterations. Whether these changes reflect transcriptional dysregulation driven by genetic risk remains unclear. We introduce a novel imaging-transcriptomics framework that integrates transcriptome-wide association studies (TWAS) with brain transcriptomic atlases to predict macroscale structural brain abnormalities across seven disorders: attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism…

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