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Sophie E Legge

Cardiff University
Verified email at cardiff.ac.uk
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Genetic architecture of schizophrenia: a review of major advancements

SE Legge, ML Santoro, S Periyasamy… - Psychological …, 2021 - cambridge.org
Schizophrenia is a severe psychiatric disorder with high heritability. Consortia efforts and
technological advancements have led to a substantial increase in knowledge of the genetic …

[HTML][HTML] Genomic findings in schizophrenia and their implications

MJ Owen, SE Legge, E Rees, JTR Walters… - Molecular …, 2023 - nature.com
There has been substantial progress in understanding the genetics of schizophrenia over
the past 15 years. This has revealed a highly polygenic condition with the majority of the …

Schizophrenia polygenic risk and experiences of childhood adversity: a systematic review and meta-analysis

…, IR Jones, JTR Walters, SE Legge - Schizophrenia …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
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[PDF][PDF] Partitioning heritability of regulatory and cell-type-specific variants across 11 common diseases

…, AK Kähler, C Laurent, JLC Keong, SE Legge… - The American Journal of …, 2014 - cell.com
… g while accounting for error correlations (referred to here as the analytical SE27). All … We
evaluated the accuracy of the analytical SE for both quantitative and ascertained traits and …

[PDF][PDF] Modeling linkage disequilibrium increases accuracy of polygenic risk scores

…, C Laurent, JLC Keong, SH Lee, SE Legge… - The american journal of …, 2015 - cell.com
Polygenic risk scores have shown great promise in predicting complex disease risk and will
become more accurate as training sample sizes increase. The standard approach for …

Contribution of copy number variants to schizophrenia from a genome-wide study of 41,321 subjects

…, B Konte, C Laurent, P Lee, SH Lee, SE Legge… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Copy number variants (CNVs) have been strongly implicated in the genetic etiology of
schizophrenia (SCZ). However, genome-wide investigation of the contribution of CNV to risk has …

Common schizophrenia alleles are enriched in mutation-intolerant genes and in regions under strong background selection

…, V Escott-Price, S Ripke, N Carrera, SE Legge… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Schizophrenia is a debilitating psychiatric condition often associated with poor quality of life
and decreased life expectancy. Lack of progress in improving treatment outcomes has been …

Analysis of copy number variations at 15 schizophrenia-associated loci

…, G Mahoney-Davies, SE Legge… - The British Journal of …, 2014 - cambridge.org
BackgroundA number of copy number variants (CNVs) have been suggested as susceptibility
factors for schizophrenia. For some of these the data remain equivocal, and the frequency …

[HTML][HTML] The penetrance of copy number variations for schizophrenia and developmental delay

…, AL Richards, KD Chambert, G Davies, SE Legge… - Biological …, 2014 - Elsevier
Background Several recurrent copy number variants (CNVs) have been shown to increase
the risk of developing schizophrenia (SCZ), developmental delay (DD), autism spectrum …

A comparison of ten polygenic score methods for psychiatric disorders applied across multiple cohorts

…, AK Kähler, C Laurent, J Lee, SH Lee, SE Legge… - Biological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Polygenic scores (PGSs), which assess the genetic risk of individuals for a disease,
are calculated as a weighted count of risk alleles identified in genome-wide association …