21. Sun K.Y., Schmitt, J.E., Moore, T.M., Barzilay, R., Almasy, L., Schultz, L.M., Mackey, A.P., Kafadar, E., Sha, Z., Seidlitz, J., Mallard, T.T., Cui Z., Fair, D.A., Satterthwaite, T.D., Keller, A.S., Alexander-Bloch, A.F., 2025. Polygenic Risk Underlies Overall Psychopathology and Personalized Functional Brain Network Topography in ABCD. JAMA Psychiatry
DOI: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.20.24314007v2
20. Sha, Z., Warrier, V., Bethlehem, R.A.I., Schultz, L.M., Merikangas, A., Sun, K.Y., Gur, R.C., Gur, R.E., Shinahara R.T., Seidlitz, J., Laura, A., Andreassen O.A., Alexander-Bloch, A.F., 2025. The overlapping genetic architecture of psychiatric disorders and brain structure. Nature Mental Health
DOI: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.05.561040v1
19. Sha, Z., Sun, K., Jung, B., Barzilay, B., Moore, T., Almasy, L., Forsyth, J., Prem, S., Gandal, M., Seidlitz, J., Glessner, J., Alexander-Bloch, A., 2025. The copy number variant architecture of child psychopathology and cognitive development in the ABCD study. American Journal of Psychiatry
DOI: https://psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/appi.ajp.20240445
18. Amelink, J., Postema, M., Kong, X., Schijven, D., Carrion Castillo, A., Soheili-Nezhad, S., Sha., Z., Molz, B., Joliot, M., Fisher, S.E., Francks, C. 2024. Imaging genetics of functional connectivity within the language network reveals links with language-related abilities, dyslexia, and handedness. Current Biology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.11.22.568256
17. Wong, M.M.K., Sha, Z. (co-first author), Lütje, L., Kong, X., Velthuijs, N., Heukelum, S., Mhlanga, M., van de Berg W.D.J., Jonkman, L.E., Fisher, S.E., Francks, C., 2024. The neocortical infrastructure for language involves region-specific patterns of laminar gene expression. The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
DOI: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2401687121
16. Sha, Z., Schijven, D., Fisher, S.E., Francks, C, 2023. Genetic architecture of the white matter connectome of the human brain. Science Advances 9: eadd2870.
DOI: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.add2870
15. Sha, Z., Schijven, D., Carrion-Castillo, A., Joliot, M., Mazoyer, B., Fisher, S.E., Crivello, F., Francks, C., 2021. The genetic architecture of structural left-right asymmetry of the human brain. Nature Human Behaviour 5, 1226-1239.
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01069-w
14. Sha, Z., Schijven, D., Francks, C., 2021. Patterns of brain asymmetry associated with polygenic risks for autism and schizophrenia implicate language and executive functions but not brain masculinization. Molecular Psychiatry 26, 7652–7660.
DOI : https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-021-01204-z
13. Sha, Z., Pepe, A., Schijven, D., Carrion-Castillo, A., Roe, J.M., Westerhausen, R., Joliot, M., Fisher, S.E., Crivello, F., Francks, C., 2021. Handedness and its genetic influences are associated with structural asymmetries of the cerebral cortex in 31,864 individuals. The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2113095118
12. Sha, Z., Van Rooij, D., Anagnostou, E., Arango, C., Auzias, G., Behrmann, M., Bernhardt, B., Bolte, S., Busatto, G. F., Calderoni, S., Calvo, R., Daly, E., Deruelle, C., Duan, M., Duran, F. L. S., Durston, S., Ecker, C., Ehrlich, S., Fair, D., Fedor, J., Fitzgerald, J., Floris, D. L., Franke, B., Freitag, C. M., Gallagher, L., Glahn, D. C., Haar, S., Hoekstra, L., Jahanshad, N., Jalbrzikowski, M., Janssen, J., King, J. A., Lazaro, L., Luna, B., McGrath, J., Medland, S. E., Muratori, F., Murphy, D. G., Neufeld, J., O'Hearn, K., Oranje, B., Parellada, M., Pariente, J. C., Postema, M., Remnelius, K. L., Retico, A., Rosa, P. G. P., Rubia, K., Shook, D., Tammimies, K., Taylor, M. J., Tosetti, M., Wallace, G. L., Zhou, F., Thompson, P. M., Fisher, S. E., Buitelaar, J. K., & Francks, C., 2021. Subtly altered topological asymmetry of brain structural covariance networks in autism spectrum disorder across 43 datasets from the ENIGMA consortium. 2021. Molecular Psychiatry 27(4), 2114– 2125.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-022-01452-7
11. Zhang, Y., Zhou, T., Feng, S., Liu, X., Wang, F., Sha, Z., Yu, X., 2021. A voxel-level brain-wide association study of cortisol at 8 a.m.: Evidence from Cushing's disease. Neurobiology of Stress 15, 100414.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ynstr.2021.100414
10. Zhang, Y., Zhou, T., Feng, S., Wang, W., Liu, H., Wang, P., Sha, Z., Yu, X., 2021. The chronic effect of cortisol on orchestrating cerebral blood flow and brain functional connectivity: evidence from Cushing's disease. Metabolism 115, 154432.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.metabol.2020.154432
9. Roe, J.M., Vidal-Pieiro, D., Amlien, I.K., Pan, M., Sneve, M.H., Thiebaut de Schotten, M., Friedrich, P., Sha, Z., Francks, C., Wang, Y., 2021. Population-level asymmetry of the cerebral cortex: reproducibility, lifespan changes, heritability, and individual differences. eLife.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.11.25.469988
8. Sha, Z., Banihashemi, L., 2020. Integrative omics analysis identifies differential biological pathways that are associated with regional grey matter volume changes in major depressive disorder. Psychological Medicine, 1-12.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291720002676
7. Sha, Z., Edmiston, E.K., Versace, A., Fournier, J.C., Graur, S., Greenberg, T., Lima Santos, J.P., Chase, H.W., Stiffler, R.S., Bonar, L., Hudak, R., Yendiki, A., Greenberg, B.D., Rasmussen, S., Liu, H., Quirk, G., Haber, S., Phillips, M.L., 2020. Functional Disruption of Cerebello-thalamo-cortical Networks in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging 5, 438-447.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsc.2019.12.002
6. Sha, Z., Versace, A., Edmiston, E.K., Fournier, J., Graur, S., Greenberg, T., Santos, J.P.L., Chase, H.W., Stiffler, R.S., Bonar, L., Hudak, R., Yendiki, A., Greenberg, B.D., Rasmussen, S., Liu, H., Quirk, G., Haber, S., Phillips, M.L., 2020. Functional disruption in prefrontal-striatal network in obsessive-compulsive disorder. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging 300, 111081.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pscychresns.2020.111081
5. Sha, Z., Wager, T.D., Mechelli, A., He, Y., 2019. Common Dysfunction of Large-Scale Neurocognitive Networks Across Psychiatric Disorders. Biological Psychiatry 85, 379-388.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2018.11.011
4. Sha, Z., Xia, M., Lin, Q., Cao, M., Tang, Y., Xu, K., Song, H., Wang, Z., Wang, F., Fox, P.T., Evans, A.C., He, Y., 2018. Meta-Connectomic Analysis Reveals Commonly Disrupted Functional Architectures in Network Modules and Connectors across Brain Disorders. Cerebral Cortex 28, 4179-4194.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhx273
3. Chen, H., Sha, Z. (co-first author), Ma, H., He, Y., Feng, T., 2018. Effective network of deep brain stimulation of subthalamic nucleus with bimodal positron emission tomography/functional magnetic resonance imaging in Parkinson's disease. CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics 24, 135-143.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/cns.12783
2. Sha, Z., Sha, L., Li, W., Dou, W., Shen, Y., Wu, L., Xu, Q., 2015. Exome sequencing identifies SUCO mutations in mesial temporal lobe epilepsy. Neuroscience Letters 591, 149-154.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2015.02.009
1. Sha, L., Wu, X., Yao, Y., Wen, B., Feng, J., Sha, Z., Wang, X., Xing, X., Dou, W., Jin, L., Li, W., Wang, N., Shen, Y., Wang, J., Wu, L., Xu, Q., 2014. Notch signaling activation promotes seizure activity in temporal lobe epilepsy. Molecular Neurobiology 49, 633-644.