Cai N.*, Dahl A.*, et al. The predicament of heritable confounders. Nature Genetics 2026
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NatureGenetics2025.pdfMedRxiv2026.pdfNatGenNewsViews2025.pdfCai N. Depression genetics through the lens of age at onset. Nature Genetics 2025 (News and Views)
NatureNewsViews2025.pdfCai N. Sex differences in depression revealed by large genetics study. Nature 2025 (News and Views)
MedRxivCE2025.pdfRietkerk J., ...Cai N.^, Genetic risk effects on psychiatric disorders act in sets, medRxiv 2025
GenomeResearch2025.pdfNappi A., ... Cai N., Francesco Paolo Casale. BayesRVAT enhances rare-variant association testing through Bayesian aggregation of functional annotations. Genome Research 2025
MolPsych2024.pdfCai N.*, Verhulst B.*, et al. Assessment and ascertainment in psychiatric molecular genetics: challenges and opportunities for cross-disorder research, Mol Psych 2024
(Review)
BioRxiv2024_mtDNAhet.pdfWengert S., ... Heinig M.*, Cai N.*^ "Tissue-specific apparent mtDNA heteroplasmy and its relationship with ageing and mtDNA gene expression", BioRxiv 2024
BioRxiv2024_mtDNAeQTL.pdfGiannoulis X., ... Cai N. ^ Interplay between mitochondrial and nuclear DNA in gene expression regulation, BioRxiv 2024
ChangBiorxiv2024.pdfChang S.*^, Fermani F.*, ... Deussing J.*, Cai N.*^ Molecular and neural mechanisms of behavioural integration in the extended-amygdala, BioRxiv 2024
BiolPsych2024.pdfHuang L., ... Cai N.^, Polygenic Analyses Show Important Differences Between Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms Measured Using Various Instruments, Biological Psychiatry 2024
NatGen2023.pdfDahl A.*^,... Cai N.*^ Phenotype integration improves power and preserves specificity in biobank-based genetic studies of major depressive disorder, Nature Genetics 2023
SciAdv2022.pdfChang S., ... Cai N., Deussing J. Tripartite extended amygdala-basal ganglia CRH circuit drives arousal and avoidance behaviour, Science Advances 2022
NatGenNewsViews2022.pdfSchork A.*, Peterson R.E.*, Dahl A.*, Cai N.*, Kendler K.S., Indirect paths from genetics to education, Nature Genetics 2022 (News and Views)
NatMed2021.pdfCai N.*, Gomez-Duran A.*, et al, Mitochondrial DNA variants modulate N-formylmethionine, proteostasis and risk of late-onset human diseases, Nature Medicine 2021
MolHumGen2020.pdfCai N.^, Choi K., Fried E.. Reviewing the genetics of heterogeneity in depression: operationalizations, manifestations and etiologies, Human Molecular Genetics 2020 (Review)
NatGen2020.pdfCai N.^, et al, Minimal phenotyping yields genome-wide association signals of low specificity for major depression, Nature Genetics 2020
Related talk: CGSI2019
AJP2018.pdfPeterson R.E.*, Cai N.*, et al, Molecular genetic analysis subdivided by adversity exposure suggests etiologic heterogeneity in major depression, American Journal of Psychiatry 2018
JAMAPsych2017.pdfPeterson R.E.*, Cai N.*, et al, The genetic architecture of major depressive disorder in Han Chinese women, JAMA Psychiatry 2017
CurrBio2015b.pdfCai N., et al, Genetic control over mtDNA and its relationship to major depressive disorder, Current Biology 2015
CurrBio2015a.pdfNature2015.pdfCai N.*, Bigdeli T.B.*, Kretzschmar W.W.*, Li Y.*, et al, Sparse whole-genome sequencing identifies two loci for major depressive disorder, Nature 2015
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