Anne-Kristin Stavrum

Mar 18, 2024 | nature.com | Markos Tesfaye |Anne-Kristin Stavrum |Ingrid Melle |Ole A. Andreassen |Leticia M. Spindola

AbstractSex differences in the epidemiology and clinical characteristics of schizophrenia are well-known; however, the molecular mechanisms underlying these differences remain unclear. Further, the potential advantages of sex-stratified meta-analyses of epigenome-wide association studies (EWAS) of schizophrenia have not been investigated.

Jun 17, 2023 | nature.com | Anja Torsvik |Srdjan Djurovic |Jonelle D. Villar |Anne-Kristin Stavrum |Thomas Bjella |Niels Eiel Steen

Patients with schizophrenia and healthy controls were recruited through the Thematically Organised Psychosis (TOP) study cohort at the Norwegian Centre for Mental Disorders Research (NORMENT, Oslo, Norway; (https://www.med.uio.no/norment/english). Diagnoses were obtained by trained clinical psychologists or physicians using the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis I Disorders (SCID-I) [15] with an 82% diagnostic reliability for DSM-IV diagnostic categories [16].