Bipolar disorder is a mental health condition characterized by extreme mood swings, with alternating periods of depression and manic episodes. Past research suggests that bipolar disorder has a strong ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Recent breakthroughs in genetics research may have uncovered new genes underlying common psychiatric disorders. Schizophrenia and ...

Scientists at deCODE genetics, a subsidiary of Amgen, reveal today in Nature Genetics associations between bipolar disorder and rare loss-of-function variants in two genes. Bipolar disorder is ...

A recent collaborative study has discovered rare variants in the YKT6 gene as the cause of a new neurological disorder characterized by developmental delays along with severe progressive liver disease ...

Genetic variants in core-spliceosome components are tied to a variety of aberrant splicing-driven inherited disorders. CWF19-like protein 2 (CWF19L2) is such a key component located in the spliceosome ...

A recent study links the FRYL gene to a new neurodevelopmental disorder in humans. They used fruit flies to establish that the loss of a functional copy of the FRY-like transcription coactivator (FRYL ...

To investigate both how variant interplay and cohort selection informs clinical outcomes, the team focused on individuals with a deletion of a section of chromosome 16 — called 16p12.1 in reference to ...