Cai N. Sex differences in depression revealed by large genetics study. Nature 2025 (News and Views)
Cai N. Sex differences in depression revealed by large genetics study. Nature 2025 (News and Views)
Rietkerk J., ...Cai N.^, Genetic risk effects on psychiatric disorders act in sets, medRxiv 2025
Nappi A., Cai N., Casale F. P. Bayesian Aggregation of Multiple Annotations Enhances Rare Variant Association Testing, BioRxiv 2025
Cai N.*, Verhulst B.*, et al. Assessment and ascertainment in psychiatric molecular genetics: challenges and opportunities for cross-disorder research, Mol Psych 2024
(Review)
Wengert S., ... Heinig M.*, Cai N.*^ "Tissue-specific apparent mtDNA heteroplasmy and its relationship with ageing and mtDNA gene expression", BioRxiv 2024
Giannoulis X., ... Cai N. ^ Interplay between mitochondrial and nuclear DNA in gene expression regulation, BioRxiv 2024
Chang S.*^, Fermani F.*, ... Deussing J., Cai N.^ Molecular and neural mechanisms of behavioural integration in the extended-amygdala, BioRxiv 2024
Huang L., ... Cai N.^, Polygenic Analyses Show Important Differences Between Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms Measured Using Various Instruments, Biological Psychiatry 2024
Dahl A.*^,... Cai N.*^ Phenotype integration improves power and preserves specificity in biobank-based genetic studies of major depressive disorder, Nature Genetics 2023
Chang S. et al, Tripartite extended amygdala-basal ganglia CRH circuit drives arousal and avoidance behaviour, Science Advances 2022
Schork A.*, Peterson R.E.*, Dahl A.*, Cai N.*, Kendler K.S., Indirect paths from genetics to education, Nature Genetics 2022 (News and Views)
Cai N.*, Gomez-Duran A.*, et al, Mitochondrial DNA variants modulate N-formylmethionine, proteostasis and risk of late-onset human diseases, Nature Medicine 2021
Cai N.^, Choi K., Fried E.. Reviewing the genetics of heterogeneity in depression: operationalizations, manifestations and etiologies, Human Molecular Genetics 2020 (Review)
Cai N.^, et al, Minimal phenotyping yields genome-wide association signals of low specificity for major depression, Nature Genetics 2020
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Peterson R.E.*, Cai N.*, et al, Molecular genetic analysis subdivided by adversity exposure suggests etiologic heterogeneity in major depression, American Journal of Psychiatry 2018
Peterson R.E.*, Cai N.*, et al, The genetic architecture of major depressive disorder in Han Chinese women, JAMA Psychiatry 2017
Cai N., et al, Genetic control over mtDNA and its relationship to major depressive disorder, Current Biology 2015
Cai 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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