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Davyson E, Shen X, Huider F, Adams M, Borges K, McCartney D, Barker L, Van Dongen J, Boomsma D, Weihs A, Grabe H, Kühn L, Teumer A, Völzke H, Zhu T, Kaprio J, Ollikainen M, David FS, Meinert S, Stein F, Forstner AJ, Dannlowski U, Kircher T, Tapuc A, Czamara D, Binder EB, Brückl T, Kwong A, Yousefi P, Wong C, Arseneault L, Fisher HL, Mill J, Cox S, Redmond P, Russ TC, van den Oord E, Aberg KA, Penninx B, Marioni RE, Wray NR, McIntosh AM. Antidepressant Exposure and DNA Methylation: Insights from a Methylome-Wide Association Study. medRxiv 2024:2024.05.01.24306640. [PMID: 38746357 PMCID: PMC11092700 DOI: 10.1101/2024.05.01.24306640] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/16/2024]
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Importance Understanding antidepressant mechanisms could help design more effective and tolerated treatments. Objective Identify DNA methylation (DNAm) changes associated with antidepressant exposure. Design Case-control methylome-wide association studies (MWAS) of antidepressant exposure were performed from blood samples collected between 2006-2011 in Generation Scotland (GS). The summary statistics were tested for enrichment in specific tissues, gene ontologies and an independent MWAS in the Netherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety (NESDA). A methylation profile score (MPS) was derived and tested for its association with antidepressant exposure in eight independent cohorts, alongside prospective data from GS. Setting Cohorts; GS, NESDA, FTC, SHIP-Trend, FOR2107, LBC1936, MARS-UniDep, ALSPAC, E-Risk, and NTR. Participants Participants with DNAm data and self-report/prescription derived antidepressant exposure. Main Outcomes and Measures Whole-blood DNAm levels were assayed by the EPIC/450K Illumina array (9 studies, N exposed = 661, N unexposed = 9,575) alongside MBD-Seq in NESDA (N exposed = 398, N unexposed = 414). Antidepressant exposure was measured by self- report and/or antidepressant prescriptions. Results The self-report MWAS (N = 16,536, N exposed = 1,508, mean age = 48, 59% female) and the prescription-derived MWAS (N = 7,951, N exposed = 861, mean age = 47, 59% female), found hypermethylation at seven and four DNAm sites (p < 9.42x10 -8 ), respectively. The top locus was cg26277237 ( KANK1, p self-report = 9.3x10 -13 , p prescription = 6.1x10 -3 ). The self-report MWAS found a differentially methylated region, mapping to DGUOK-AS1 ( p adj = 5.0x10 -3 ) alongside significant enrichment for genes expressed in the amygdala, the "synaptic vesicle membrane" gene ontology and the top 1% of CpGs from the NESDA MWAS (OR = 1.39, p < 0.042). The MPS was associated with antidepressant exposure in meta-analysed data from external cohorts (N studies = 9, N = 10,236, N exposed = 661, f3 = 0.196, p < 1x10 -4 ). Conclusions and Relevance Antidepressant exposure is associated with changes in DNAm across different cohorts. Further investigation into these changes could inform on new targets for antidepressant treatments. 3 Key Points Question: Is antidepressant exposure associated with differential whole blood DNA methylation?Findings: In this methylome-wide association study of 16,536 adults across Scotland, antidepressant exposure was significantly associated with hypermethylation at CpGs mapping to KANK1 and DGUOK-AS1. A methylation profile score trained on this sample was significantly associated with antidepressant exposure (pooled f3 [95%CI]=0.196 [0.105, 0.288], p < 1x10 -4 ) in a meta-analysis of external datasets. Meaning: Antidepressant exposure is associated with hypermethylation at KANK1 and DGUOK-AS1 , which have roles in mitochondrial metabolism and neurite outgrowth. If replicated in future studies, targeting these genes could inform the design of more effective and better tolerated treatments for depression.
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Kanjira SC, Adams MJ, Yunxuan J, Chao T, Lewis CM, Kuchenbaecker K, McIntosh AM. Polygenic prediction of major depressive disorder and related traits in African ancestries UK Biobank participants. medRxiv 2023:2023.12.24.23300412. [PMID: 38234770 PMCID: PMC10793522 DOI: 10.1101/2023.12.24.23300412] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2024]
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Introduction Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS) over-represent European ancestries compared to the global population, neglecting all other ancestry groups and low-income nations. Consequently, polygenic risk scores (PRS) more accurately predict complex traits in Europeans than African Ancestries groups. Very few studies have looked at the transferability of European-derived PRS for behavioural and mental health phenotypes to non-Europeans. We assessed the comparative accuracy of PRS for Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) trained on European and African Ancestries GWAS studies to predict MDD and related traits in African Ancestries participants from the UK Biobank. Methods UK Biobank participants were selected based on Principal component analysis (PCA) clustering with an African genetic similarity reference population and MDD was assessed with the Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI). Polygenic Risk Scores (PRS) were computed using PRSice2 using either European or African Ancestries GWAS summary statistics. Results PRS trained on European ancestry samples (246,363 cases) predicted case control status in Africans of the UK Biobank with similar accuracies (190 cases, R2=2%) to PRS trained on far much smaller samples of African Ancestries participants from 23andMe, Inc. (5045 cases, R2=1.8%). This suggests that prediction of MDD status from Africans to Africans had greater efficiency per unit increase in the discovery sample size than prediction of MDD from Europeans to Africans. Prediction of MDD status in African UK Biobank participants using GWAS findings of causal risk factors from European ancestries was non-significant. Conclusion GWAS studies of MDD in European ancestries are an inefficient means of improving polygenic prediction accuracy in African samples.
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- S C Kanjira
- Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, UK
- Malawi Epidemiology and Intervention Research Unit, Lilongwe, Malawi
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- Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, UK
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- Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, UK
- Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, University of Edinburgh, UK
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Cox SR, Harris MA, Ritchie SJ, Buchanan CR, Valdés Hernández MC, Corley J, Taylor AM, Madole JW, Harris SE, Whalley HC, McIntosh AM, Russ TC, Bastin ME, Wardlaw JM, Deary IJ, Tucker-Drob EM. Three major dimensions of human brain cortical ageing in relation to cognitive decline across the eighth decade of life. Mol Psychiatry 2021; 26:2651-2662. [PMID: 33398085 PMCID: PMC8254824 DOI: 10.1038/s41380-020-00975-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2020] [Revised: 11/17/2020] [Accepted: 11/30/2020] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Different brain regions can be grouped together, based on cross-sectional correlations among their cortical characteristics; this patterning has been used to make inferences about ageing processes. However, cross-sectional brain data conflate information on ageing with patterns that are present throughout life. We characterised brain cortical ageing across the eighth decade of life in a longitudinal ageing cohort, at ages ~73, ~76, and ~79 years, with a total of 1376 MRI scans. Volumetric changes among cortical regions of interest (ROIs) were more strongly correlated (average r = 0.805, SD = 0.252) than were cross-sectional volumes of the same ROIs (average r = 0.350, SD = 0.178). We identified a broad, cortex-wide, dimension of atrophy that explained 66% of the variance in longitudinal changes across the cortex. Our modelling also discovered more specific fronto-temporal and occipito-parietal dimensions that were orthogonal to the general factor and together explained an additional 20% of the variance. The general factor was associated with declines in general cognitive ability (r = 0.431, p < 0.001) and in the domains of visuospatial ability (r = 0.415, p = 0.002), processing speed (r = 0.383, p < 0.001) and memory (r = 0.372, p < 0.001). Individual differences in brain cortical atrophy with ageing are manifest across three broad dimensions of the cerebral cortex, the most general of which is linked with cognitive declines across domains. Longitudinal approaches are invaluable for distinguishing lifelong patterns of brain-behaviour associations from patterns that are specific to aging.
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- S. R. Cox
- grid.4305.20000 0004 1936 7988Lothian Birth Cohorts Group, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK ,grid.4305.20000 0004 1936 7988Department of Psychology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK ,Scottish Imaging Network, A Platform for Scientific Excellence (SINAPSE) Collaboration, Edinburgh, UK
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- grid.4305.20000 0004 1936 7988Division of Psychiatry, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- grid.13097.3c0000 0001 2322 6764Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, King’s College London, London, UK
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- grid.4305.20000 0004 1936 7988Lothian Birth Cohorts Group, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK ,grid.4305.20000 0004 1936 7988Department of Psychology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK ,Scottish Imaging Network, A Platform for Scientific Excellence (SINAPSE) Collaboration, Edinburgh, UK
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- grid.4305.20000 0004 1936 7988Lothian Birth Cohorts Group, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK ,Scottish Imaging Network, A Platform for Scientific Excellence (SINAPSE) Collaboration, Edinburgh, UK ,grid.4305.20000 0004 1936 7988Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- grid.4305.20000 0004 1936 7988Lothian Birth Cohorts Group, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK ,grid.4305.20000 0004 1936 7988Department of Psychology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- grid.4305.20000 0004 1936 7988Lothian Birth Cohorts Group, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK ,grid.4305.20000 0004 1936 7988Department of Psychology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- grid.55460.320000000121548364Department of Psychology, University of Texas, Austin, TX USA
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- grid.4305.20000 0004 1936 7988Lothian Birth Cohorts Group, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK ,grid.4305.20000 0004 1936 7988Department of Psychology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- grid.4305.20000 0004 1936 7988Division of Psychiatry, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- grid.4305.20000 0004 1936 7988Division of Psychiatry, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- grid.4305.20000 0004 1936 7988Lothian Birth Cohorts Group, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK ,grid.4305.20000 0004 1936 7988Division of Psychiatry, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK ,grid.4305.20000 0004 1936 7988Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK ,grid.4305.20000 0004 1936 7988Alzheimer Scotland Dementia Research Centre, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- grid.4305.20000 0004 1936 7988Lothian Birth Cohorts Group, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK ,Scottish Imaging Network, A Platform for Scientific Excellence (SINAPSE) Collaboration, Edinburgh, UK ,grid.4305.20000 0004 1936 7988Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- grid.4305.20000 0004 1936 7988Lothian Birth Cohorts Group, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK ,Scottish Imaging Network, A Platform for Scientific Excellence (SINAPSE) Collaboration, Edinburgh, UK ,grid.4305.20000 0004 1936 7988Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK ,grid.4305.20000 0004 1936 7988UK Dementia Research Institute at The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- grid.4305.20000 0004 1936 7988Lothian Birth Cohorts Group, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK ,grid.4305.20000 0004 1936 7988Department of Psychology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- grid.55460.320000000121548364Department of Psychology, University of Texas, Austin, TX USA
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Alloza C, Blesa-Cábez M, Bastin ME, Madole JW, Buchanan CR, Janssen J, Gibson J, Deary IJ, Tucker-Drob EM, Whalley HC, Arango C, McIntosh AM, Cox SR, Lawrie SM. Psychotic-like experiences, polygenic risk scores for schizophrenia, and structural properties of the salience, default mode, and central-executive networks in healthy participants from UK Biobank. Transl Psychiatry 2020; 10:122. [PMID: 32341335 PMCID: PMC7186224 DOI: 10.1038/s41398-020-0794-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2019] [Revised: 03/11/2020] [Accepted: 03/25/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Schizophrenia is a highly heritable disorder with considerable phenotypic heterogeneity. Hallmark psychotic symptoms can be considered as existing on a continuum from non-clinical to clinical populations. Assessing genetic risk and psychotic-like experiences (PLEs) in non-clinical populations and their associated neurobiological underpinnings can offer valuable insights into symptom-associated brain mechanisms without the potential confounds of the effects of schizophrenia and its treatment. We leveraged a large population-based cohort (UKBiobank, N = 3875) including information on PLEs (obtained from the Mental Health Questionnaire (MHQ); UKBiobank Category: 144; N auditory hallucinations = 55, N visual hallucinations = 79, N persecutory delusions = 16, N delusions of reference = 13), polygenic risk scores for schizophrenia (PRSSZ) and multi-modal brain imaging in combination with network neuroscience. Morphometric (cortical thickness, volume) and water diffusion (fractional anisotropy) properties of the regions and pathways belonging to the salience, default-mode, and central-executive networks were computed. We hypothesized that these anatomical concomitants of functional dysconnectivity would be negatively associated with PRSSZ and PLEs. PRSSZ was significantly associated with a latent measure of cortical thickness across the salience network (r = -0.069, p = 0.010) and PLEs showed a number of significant associations, both negative and positive, with properties of the salience and default mode networks (involving the insular cortex, supramarginal gyrus, and pars orbitalis, pFDR < 0.050); with the cortical thickness of the insula largely mediating the relationship between PRSSZ and auditory hallucinations. Generally, these results are consistent with the hypothesis that higher genetic liability for schizophrenia is related to subtle disruptions in brain structure and may predispose to PLEs even among healthy participants. In addition, our study suggests that networks engaged during auditory hallucinations show structural associations with PLEs in the general population.
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- C Alloza
- Division of Psychiatry, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry and Mental Health, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain.
- Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón (IiSGM), Madrid, Spain.
- Ciber del Area de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), Madrid, Spain.
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- MRC Centre for Reproductive Health, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, Department of Psychology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, Department of Psychology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Scottish Imaging Network: A Platform for Scientific Excellence (SINAPSE), Edinburgh, UK
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry and Mental Health, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain
- Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón (IiSGM), Madrid, Spain
- Ciber del Area de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), Madrid, Spain
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- Division of Psychiatry, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, Department of Psychology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
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- Division of Psychiatry, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry and Mental Health, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain
- Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón (IiSGM), Madrid, Spain
- Ciber del Area de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), Madrid, Spain
- School of Medicine, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain
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- Division of Psychiatry, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, Department of Psychology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, Department of Psychology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Scottish Imaging Network: A Platform for Scientific Excellence (SINAPSE), Edinburgh, UK
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- Division of Psychiatry, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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Navrady LB, Wolters MK, MacIntyre DJ, Clarke TK, Campbell AI, Murray AD, Evans KL, Seckl J, Haley C, Milburn K, Wardlaw JM, Porteous DJ, Deary IJ, McIntosh AM. Cohort Profile: Stratifying Resilience and Depression Longitudinally (STRADL): a questionnaire follow-up of Generation Scotland: Scottish Family Health Study (GS:SFHS). Int J Epidemiol 2019; 47:13-14g. [PMID: 29040551 PMCID: PMC5837716 DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyx115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 06/06/2017] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- L B Navrady
- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.,Generation Scotland, Centre for Genetics and Experimental Medicine, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Aberdeen Biomedical Imaging Centre, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
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- Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.,Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Endocrinology Unit, Centre for Cardiovascular Science, Queen's Medical Research Institute, Edinburgh, UK
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- MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Health Informatics Centre, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK
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- Brain Research Imaging Centre, School of Clinical Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.,Generation Scotland, Centre for Genetics and Experimental Medicine, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.,Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Generation Scotland, Centre for Genetics and Experimental Medicine, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.,Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.,Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.,Generation Scotland, Centre for Genetics and Experimental Medicine, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.,Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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Hafferty JD, Navrady LB, Adams MJ, Howard DM, Campbell AI, Whalley HC, Lawrie SM, Nicodemus KK, Porteous DJ, Deary IJ, McIntosh AM. The role of neuroticism in self-harm and suicidal ideation: results from two UK population-based cohorts. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 2019; 54:1505-1518. [PMID: 31123787 PMCID: PMC6858388 DOI: 10.1007/s00127-019-01725-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2018] [Accepted: 05/13/2019] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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BACKGROUND Self-harm is common, debilitating and associated with completed suicide and increased all-cause mortality, but there is uncertainty about its causal risk factors, limiting risk assessment and effective management. Neuroticism is a stable personality trait associated with self-harm and suicidal ideation, and correlated with coping styles, but its value as an independent predictor of these outcomes is disputed. METHODS Prior history of hospital-treated self-harm was obtained by record-linkage to administrative health data in Generation Scotland:Scottish Family Health Study (N = 15,798; self-harm cases = 339) and by a self-report variable in UK Biobank (N = 35,227; self-harm cases = 772). Neuroticism in both cohorts was measured using the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire-Short Form. Associations of neuroticism with self-harm were tested using multivariable regression following adjustment for age, sex, cognitive ability, educational attainment, socioeconomic deprivation, and relationship status. A subset of GS:SFHS was followed-up with suicidal ideation elicited by self-report (n = 3342, suicidal ideation cases = 158) and coping styles measured by the Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations. The relationship of neuroticism to suicidal ideation, and the role of coping style, was then investigated using multivariable logistic regression. RESULTS Neuroticism was positively associated with hospital-associated self-harm in GS:SFHS (per EPQ-SF unit odds ratio 1.2 95% credible interval 1.1-1.2, pFDR 0.0003) and UKB (per EPQ-SF unit odds ratio 1.1 95% confidence interval 1.1-1.2, pFDR 9.8 × 10-17). Neuroticism, and the neuroticism-correlated coping style, emotion-oriented coping (EoC), were also associated with suicidal ideation in multivariable models. CONCLUSIONS Neuroticism is an independent predictor of hospital-treated self-harm risk. Neuroticism and emotion-orientated coping styles are also predictive of suicidal ideation.
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- Jonathan D. Hafferty
- Division of Psychiatry, Kennedy Tower, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH10 5HF UK
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- Division of Psychiatry, Kennedy Tower, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH10 5HF UK
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- Division of Psychiatry, Kennedy Tower, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH10 5HF UK
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- Division of Psychiatry, Kennedy Tower, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH10 5HF UK
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- Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Western General Hospital, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Division of Psychiatry, Kennedy Tower, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH10 5HF UK
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- Division of Psychiatry, Kennedy Tower, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH10 5HF UK
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- Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Western General Hospital, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Western General Hospital, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK ,Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Division of Psychiatry, Kennedy Tower, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH10 5HF UK ,Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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Navrady LB, Adams MJ, Chan SWY, Ritchie SJ, McIntosh AM. Genetic risk of major depressive disorder: the moderating and mediating effects of neuroticism and psychological resilience on clinical and self-reported depression. Psychol Med 2018; 48:1890-1899. [PMID: 29183409 PMCID: PMC6088772 DOI: 10.1017/s0033291717003415] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2017] [Revised: 10/25/2017] [Accepted: 10/27/2017] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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BACKGROUND Polygenic risk scores (PRS) for depression correlate with depression status and chronicity, and provide causal anchors to identify depressive mechanisms. Neuroticism is phenotypically and genetically positively associated with depression, whereas psychological resilience demonstrates negative phenotypic associations. Whether increased neuroticism and reduced resilience are downstream mediators of genetic risk for depression, and whether they contribute independently to risk remains unknown. METHODS Moderating and mediating relationships between depression PRS, neuroticism, resilience and both clinical and self-reported depression were examined in a large, population-based cohort, Generation Scotland: Scottish Family Health Study (N = 4166), using linear regression and structural equation modelling. Neuroticism and resilience were measured by the Eysenck Personality Scale Short Form Revised and the Brief Resilience Scale, respectively. RESULTS PRS for depression was associated with increased likelihood of self-reported and clinical depression. No interaction was found between PRS and neuroticism, or between PRS and resilience. Neuroticism was associated with increased likelihood of self-reported and clinical depression, whereas resilience was associated with reduced risk. Structural equation modelling suggested the association between PRS and self-reported and clinical depression was mediated by neuroticism (43-57%), while resilience mediated the association in the opposite direction (37-40%). For both self-reported and clinical diagnoses, the genetic risk for depression was independently mediated by neuroticism and resilience. CONCLUSIONS Findings suggest polygenic risk for depression increases vulnerability for self-reported and clinical depression through independent effects on increased neuroticism and reduced psychological resilience. In addition, two partially independent mechanisms - neuroticism and resilience - may form part of the pathway of vulnerability to depression.
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- L. B. Navrady
- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Edinburgh EH10 5HF, UK
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Edinburgh EH10 5HF, UK
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- Section of Clinical Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Medical Quad, Teviot Place, Edinburgh EH8 9AG, UK
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- Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, 7 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, UK
- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, 7 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, UK
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Edinburgh EH10 5HF, UK
- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, 7 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, UK
- Generation Scotland, Centre for Genetics and Experimental Medicine, Institute for Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Crewe Road, Edinburgh EH42XU, UK
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Neilson E, Bois C, Clarke TK, Hall L, Johnstone EC, Owens DGC, Whalley HC, McIntosh AM, Lawrie SM. Polygenic risk for schizophrenia, transition and cortical gyrification: a high-risk study. Psychol Med 2018; 48:1532-1539. [PMID: 29065934 DOI: 10.1017/s0033291717003087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Schizophrenia is a highly heritable disorder, linked to several structural abnormalities of the brain. More specifically, previous findings have suggested that increased gyrification in frontal and temporal regions are implicated in the pathogenesis of schizophrenia. METHODS The current study included participants at high familial risk of schizophrenia who remained well (n = 31), who developed sub-diagnostic symptoms (n = 28) and who developed schizophrenia (n = 9) as well as healthy controls (HC) (n = 16). We first tested whether individuals at high familial risk of schizophrenia carried an increased burden of trait-associated alleles using polygenic risk score analysis. We then assessed the extent to which polygenic risk was associated with gyral folding in the frontal and temporal lobes. RESULTS We found that individuals at high familial risk of schizophrenia who developed schizophrenia carried a significantly greater burden of risk-conferring variants for the disorder compared to those at high risk (HR) who developed sub-diagnostic symptoms or remained well and HC. Furthermore, within the HR cohort, there was a significant and positive association between schizophrenia polygenic risk score and bilateral frontal gyrification. CONCLUSIONS These results suggest that polygenic risk for schizophrenia impacts upon early neurodevelopment to confer greater gyral folding in adulthood and an increased risk of developing the disorder.
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- E Neilson
- Division of Psychiatry,University of Edinburgh,Royal Edinburgh Hospital,Kennedy Tower,Edinburgh,UK
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- Division of Psychiatry,University of Edinburgh,Royal Edinburgh Hospital,Kennedy Tower,Edinburgh,UK
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- Division of Psychiatry,University of Edinburgh,Royal Edinburgh Hospital,Kennedy Tower,Edinburgh,UK
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- International Centre for Life,Institute of Genetic Medicine,Newcastle University,Central Parkway,Newcastle upon Tyne,UK
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- Division of Psychiatry,University of Edinburgh,Royal Edinburgh Hospital,Kennedy Tower,Edinburgh,UK
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- Division of Psychiatry,University of Edinburgh,Royal Edinburgh Hospital,Kennedy Tower,Edinburgh,UK
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- Division of Psychiatry,University of Edinburgh,Royal Edinburgh Hospital,Kennedy Tower,Edinburgh,UK
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- Division of Psychiatry,University of Edinburgh,Royal Edinburgh Hospital,Kennedy Tower,Edinburgh,UK
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- Division of Psychiatry,University of Edinburgh,Royal Edinburgh Hospital,Kennedy Tower,Edinburgh,UK
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Blakey R, Ranlund S, Zartaloudi E, Cahn W, Calafato S, Colizzi M, Crespo-Facorro B, Daniel C, Díez-Revuelta Á, Di Forti M, Iyegbe C, Jablensky A, Jones R, Hall MH, Kahn R, Kalaydjieva L, Kravariti E, Lin K, McDonald C, McIntosh AM, Picchioni M, Powell J, Presman A, Rujescu D, Schulze K, Shaikh M, Thygesen JH, Toulopoulou T, Van Haren N, Van Os J, Walshe M, Murray RM, Bramon E. Associations between psychosis endophenotypes across brain functional, structural, and cognitive domains. Psychol Med 2018; 48:1325-1340. [PMID: 29094675 PMCID: PMC6516747 DOI: 10.1017/s0033291717002860] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND A range of endophenotypes characterise psychosis, however there has been limited work understanding if and how they are inter-related. METHODS This multi-centre study includes 8754 participants: 2212 people with a psychotic disorder, 1487 unaffected relatives of probands, and 5055 healthy controls. We investigated cognition [digit span (N = 3127), block design (N = 5491), and the Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test (N = 3543)], electrophysiology [P300 amplitude and latency (N = 1102)], and neuroanatomy [lateral ventricular volume (N = 1721)]. We used linear regression to assess the interrelationships between endophenotypes. RESULTS The P300 amplitude and latency were not associated (regression coef. -0.06, 95% CI -0.12 to 0.01, p = 0.060), and P300 amplitude was positively associated with block design (coef. 0.19, 95% CI 0.10-0.28, p 0.38). All the cognitive endophenotypes were associated with each other in the expected directions (all p < 0.001). Lastly, the relationships between pairs of endophenotypes were consistent in all three participant groups, differing for some of the cognitive pairings only in the strengths of the relationships. CONCLUSIONS The P300 amplitude and latency are independent endophenotypes; the former indexing spatial visualisation and working memory, and the latter is hypothesised to index basic processing speed. Individuals with psychotic illnesses, their unaffected relatives, and healthy controls all show similar patterns of associations between endophenotypes, endorsing the theory of a continuum of psychosis liability across the population.
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- R. Blakey
- Division of Psychiatry, University College London, London, UK
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- Division of Psychiatry, University College London, London, UK
- Institute of Psychiatry Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
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- Division of Psychiatry, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, Brain Centre Rudolf Magnus, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Division of Psychiatry, University College London, London, UK
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- Institute of Psychiatry Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
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- CIBERSAM, Centro Investigación Biomédica en Red Salud Mental, Madrid, Spain
- Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla, School of Medicine, University of Cantabria–IDIVAL, Santander, Spain
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- Division of Psychiatry, University College London, London, UK
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- Division of Psychiatry, University College London, London, UK
- Laboratory of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience – Centre for Biomedical Technology (CTB), Complutense University and Technical University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Institute of Psychiatry Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
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- Institute of Psychiatry Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
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- Centre for Clinical Research in Neuropsychiatry, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
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- Division of Psychiatry, University College London, London, UK
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- Psychology Research Laboratory, Harvard Medical School, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Brain Centre Rudolf Magnus, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research and Centre for Medical Research, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
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- Institute of Psychiatry Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
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- Institute of Psychiatry Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
- Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, Clinical Science Institute, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, UK
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- Institute of Psychiatry Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
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- Institute of Psychiatry Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
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- Division of Psychiatry, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, Munich, Germany
- Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, University of Halle Wittenberg, Halle, Germany
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- Institute of Psychiatry Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
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- Institute of Psychiatry Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
- North East London Foundation Trust, London, UK
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- Division of Psychiatry, University College London, London, UK
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- Institute of Psychiatry Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
- Department of Psychology, Bilkent University, Main Campus, Bilkent, Ankara, Turkey
- Department of Psychology, the University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Rd, Hong Kong SAR, China
- The State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, The Hong Kong Jockey Club Building for Interdisciplinary Research, Hong Kong SAR, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, Brain Centre Rudolf Magnus, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Institute of Psychiatry Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Maastricht University Medical Centre, EURON, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Division of Psychiatry, University College London, London, UK
- Institute of Psychiatry Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
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- Institute of Psychiatry Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
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- Division of Psychiatry, University College London, London, UK
- Institute of Psychiatry Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London, UK
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Teng S, Thomson PA, McCarthy S, Kramer M, Muller S, Lihm J, Morris S, Soares DC, Hennah W, Harris S, Camargo LM, Malkov V, McIntosh AM, Millar JK, Blackwood DH, Evans KL, Deary IJ, Porteous DJ, McCombie WR. Rare disruptive variants in the DISC1 Interactome and Regulome: association with cognitive ability and schizophrenia. Mol Psychiatry 2018; 23:1270-1277. [PMID: 28630456 PMCID: PMC5984079 DOI: 10.1038/mp.2017.115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2016] [Revised: 03/20/2017] [Accepted: 03/27/2017] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
Abstract
Schizophrenia (SCZ), bipolar disorder (BD) and recurrent major depressive disorder (rMDD) are common psychiatric illnesses. All have been associated with lower cognitive ability, and show evidence of genetic overlap and substantial evidence of pleiotropy with cognitive function and neuroticism. Disrupted in schizophrenia 1 (DISC1) protein directly interacts with a large set of proteins (DISC1 Interactome) that are involved in brain development and signaling. Modulation of DISC1 expression alters the expression of a circumscribed set of genes (DISC1 Regulome) that are also implicated in brain biology and disorder. Here we report targeted sequencing of 59 DISC1 Interactome genes and 154 Regulome genes in 654 psychiatric patients and 889 cognitively-phenotyped control subjects, on whom we previously reported evidence for trait association from complete sequencing of the DISC1 locus. Burden analyses of rare and singleton variants predicted to be damaging were performed for psychiatric disorders, cognitive variables and personality traits. The DISC1 Interactome and Regulome showed differential association across the phenotypes tested. After family-wise error correction across all traits (FWERacross), an increased burden of singleton disruptive variants in the Regulome was associated with SCZ (FWERacross P=0.0339). The burden of singleton disruptive variants in the DISC1 Interactome was associated with low cognitive ability at age 11 (FWERacross P=0.0043). These results identify altered regulation of schizophrenia candidate genes by DISC1 and its core Interactome as an alternate pathway for schizophrenia risk, consistent with the emerging effects of rare copy number variants associated with intellectual disability.
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- S Teng
- Stanley Institute for Cognitive Genomics, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA
- Department of Biology, Howard University, Washington DC, USA
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- Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, MRC/University of Edinburgh Institute of Genetics & Molecular Medicine, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, Edinburgh, UK
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- Stanley Institute for Cognitive Genomics, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA
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- Stanley Institute for Cognitive Genomics, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA
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- Stanley Institute for Cognitive Genomics, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA
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- Stanley Institute for Cognitive Genomics, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA
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- Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, MRC/University of Edinburgh Institute of Genetics & Molecular Medicine, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
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- Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, MRC/University of Edinburgh Institute of Genetics & Molecular Medicine, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
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- Institute for Molecular Medicine, Finland FIMM, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, MRC/University of Edinburgh Institute of Genetics & Molecular Medicine, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, Edinburgh, UK
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- UCB New Medicines, One Broadway, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Genetics and Pharmacogenomics, MRL, Merck & Co, Boston, MA, USA
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
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- Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, MRC/University of Edinburgh Institute of Genetics & Molecular Medicine, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, Edinburgh, UK
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, Edinburgh, UK
- Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, MRC/University of Edinburgh Institute of Genetics & Molecular Medicine, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, Edinburgh, UK
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- Stanley Institute for Cognitive Genomics, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA
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Hibar DP, Westlye LT, Doan NT, Jahanshad N, Cheung JW, Ching CRK, Versace A, Bilderbeck AC, Uhlmann A, Mwangi B, Krämer B, Overs B, Hartberg CB, Abé C, Dima D, Grotegerd D, Sprooten E, Bøen E, Jimenez E, Howells FM, Delvecchio G, Temmingh H, Starke J, Almeida JRC, Goikolea JM, Houenou J, Beard LM, Rauer L, Abramovic L, Bonnin M, Ponteduro MF, Keil M, Rive MM, Yao N, Yalin N, Najt P, Rosa PG, Redlich R, Trost S, Hagenaars S, Fears SC, Alonso-Lana S, van Erp TGM, Nickson T, Chaim-Avancini TM, Meier TB, Elvsåshagen T, Haukvik UK, Lee WH, Schene AH, Lloyd AJ, Young AH, Nugent A, Dale AM, Pfennig A, McIntosh AM, Lafer B, Baune BT, Ekman CJ, Zarate CA, Bearden CE, Henry C, Simhandl C, McDonald C, Bourne C, Stein DJ, Wolf DH, Cannon DM, Glahn DC, Veltman DJ, Pomarol-Clotet E, Vieta E, Canales-Rodriguez EJ, Nery FG, Duran FLS, Busatto GF, Roberts G, Pearlson GD, Goodwin GM, Kugel H, Whalley HC, Ruhe HG, Soares JC, Fullerton JM, Rybakowski JK, Savitz J, Chaim KT, Fatjó-Vilas M, Soeiro-de-Souza MG, Boks MP, Zanetti MV, Otaduy MCG, Schaufelberger MS, Alda M, Ingvar M, Phillips ML, Kempton MJ, Bauer M, Landén M, Lawrence NS, van Haren NEM, Horn NR, Freimer NB, Gruber O, Schofield PR, Mitchell PB, Kahn RS, Lenroot R, Machado-Vieira R, Ophoff RA, Sarró S, Frangou S, Satterthwaite TD, Hajek T, Dannlowski U, Malt UF, Arolt V, Gattaz WF, Drevets WC, Caseras X, Agartz I, Thompson PM, Andreassen OA. Cortical abnormalities in bipolar disorder: an MRI analysis of 6503 individuals from the ENIGMA Bipolar Disorder Working Group. Mol Psychiatry 2018; 23:932-942. [PMID: 28461699 PMCID: PMC5668195 DOI: 10.1038/mp.2017.73] [Citation(s) in RCA: 422] [Impact Index Per Article: 70.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2016] [Revised: 02/04/2017] [Accepted: 02/10/2017] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
Abstract
Despite decades of research, the pathophysiology of bipolar disorder (BD) is still not well understood. Structural brain differences have been associated with BD, but results from neuroimaging studies have been inconsistent. To address this, we performed the largest study to date of cortical gray matter thickness and surface area measures from brain magnetic resonance imaging scans of 6503 individuals including 1837 unrelated adults with BD and 2582 unrelated healthy controls for group differences while also examining the effects of commonly prescribed medications, age of illness onset, history of psychosis, mood state, age and sex differences on cortical regions. In BD, cortical gray matter was thinner in frontal, temporal and parietal regions of both brain hemispheres. BD had the strongest effects on left pars opercularis (Cohen's d=-0.293; P=1.71 × 10-21), left fusiform gyrus (d=-0.288; P=8.25 × 10-21) and left rostral middle frontal cortex (d=-0.276; P=2.99 × 10-19). Longer duration of illness (after accounting for age at the time of scanning) was associated with reduced cortical thickness in frontal, medial parietal and occipital regions. We found that several commonly prescribed medications, including lithium, antiepileptic and antipsychotic treatment showed significant associations with cortical thickness and surface area, even after accounting for patients who received multiple medications. We found evidence of reduced cortical surface area associated with a history of psychosis but no associations with mood state at the time of scanning. Our analysis revealed previously undetected associations and provides an extensive analysis of potential confounding variables in neuroimaging studies of BD.
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- D P Hibar
- Imaging Genetics Center, Mark and Mary Stevens Institute for Neuroimaging & Informatics, University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, CA, USA,Janssen Research & Development, San Diego, CA, USA
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- NORMENT, KG Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway,Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway,Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- NORMENT, KG Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway,Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- Imaging Genetics Center, Mark and Mary Stevens Institute for Neuroimaging & Informatics, University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, CA, USA
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- Imaging Genetics Center, Mark and Mary Stevens Institute for Neuroimaging & Informatics, University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, CA, USA
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- Imaging Genetics Center, Mark and Mary Stevens Institute for Neuroimaging & Informatics, University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, CA, USA,Neuroscience Interdepartmental Graduate Program, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- University Department of Psychiatry and Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa,MRC Unit on Anxiety and Stress Disorders, Groote Schuur Hospital (J-2), University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- UT Center of Excellence on Mood Disorders, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
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- Section for Experimental Psychopathology and Neuroimaging, Department of General Psychiatry, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Neuroscience Research Australia, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- NORMENT, KG Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Osher Centre, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Psychology, City University London, London, UK,Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Psychiatric Research, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- Hospital Clinic, IDIBAPS, University of Barcelona, CIBERSAM, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- IRCCS "E. Medea" Scientific Institute, San Vito al Tagliamento, Italy
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- Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
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- Hospital Clinic, IDIBAPS, University of Barcelona, CIBERSAM, Barcelona, Spain
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- INSERM U955 Team 15 ‘Translational Psychiatry’, University Paris East, APHP, CHU Mondor, Fondation FondaMental, Créteil, France,NeuroSpin, UNIACT Lab, Psychiatry Team, CEA Saclay, Gif Sur Yvette, France
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Section for Experimental Psychopathology and Neuroimaging, Department of General Psychiatry, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, Brain Center Rudolf Magnus, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Hospital Clinic, IDIBAPS, University of Barcelona, CIBERSAM, Barcelona, Spain
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- Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Program for Mood Disorders, Department of Psychiatry, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA,Olin Neuropsychiatric Research Center, Institute of Living, Hartford Hospital, Hartford, CT, USA
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- Centre for Affective Disorders, King’s College London, London, UK
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- Centre for Neuroimaging & Cognitive Genomics (NICOG), Clinical Neuroimaging Laboratory, NCBES Galway Neuroscience Centre, College of Medicine Nursing and Health Sciences, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland
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- Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil,Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Applied Neurosciences (NAPNA), University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA,West Los Angeles Veterans Administration, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- FIDMAG Germanes Hospitalàries Research Foundation, Barcelona, Spain,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil,Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Applied Neurosciences (NAPNA), University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA,Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, USA
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- NORMENT, KG Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway,Department of Neurology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- NORMENT, KG Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway,Department of Adult Psychiatry, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands,Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Academic Psychiatry and Northern Centre for Mood Disorders, Newcastle University/Northumberland Tyne & Wear NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle, UK
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- Centre for Affective Disorders, King’s College London, London, UK
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- Experimental Therapeutics and Pathophysiology Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- MMIL, Department of Radiology, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA,Department of Cognitive Science, Neurosciences and Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
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- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Osher Centre, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Experimental Therapeutics and Pathophysiology Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA,Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- INSERM U955 Team 15 ‘Translational Psychiatry’, University Paris East, APHP, CHU Mondor, Fondation FondaMental, Créteil, France,Institut Pasteur, Unité Perception et Mémoire, Paris, France
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- Bipolar Center Wiener Neustadt, Wiener Neustadt, Austria
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- Centre for Neuroimaging & Cognitive Genomics (NICOG), Clinical Neuroimaging Laboratory, NCBES Galway Neuroscience Centre, College of Medicine Nursing and Health Sciences, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland
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- University Department of Psychiatry and Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK,Department of Psychology & Counselling, Newman University, Birmingham, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa,MRC Unit on Anxiety and Stress Disorders, Groote Schuur Hospital (J-2), University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Centre for Neuroimaging & Cognitive Genomics (NICOG), Clinical Neuroimaging Laboratory, NCBES Galway Neuroscience Centre, College of Medicine Nursing and Health Sciences, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland
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- Department of Psychiatry, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA,Olin Neuropsychiatric Research Center, Institute of Living, Hartford Hospital, Hartford, CT, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- FIDMAG Germanes Hospitalàries Research Foundation, Barcelona, Spain,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), Madrid, Spain
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- Hospital Clinic, IDIBAPS, University of Barcelona, CIBERSAM, Barcelona, Spain
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- FIDMAG Germanes Hospitalàries Research Foundation, Barcelona, Spain,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil,Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil,Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Applied Neurosciences (NAPNA), University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil,Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Applied Neurosciences (NAPNA), University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- School of Psychiatry and Black Dog Institute, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Psychiatry, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA,Olin Neuropsychiatric Research Center, Institute of Living, Hartford Hospital, Hartford, CT, USA
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- University Department of Psychiatry and Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Clinical Radiology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- University Department of Psychiatry and Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK,Program for Mood Disorders, Department of Psychiatry, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands,Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- UT Center of Excellence on Mood Disorders, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
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- Neuroscience Research Australia, Sydney, NSW, Australia,School of Medical Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Adult Psychiatry, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, USA,Faculty of Community Medicine, The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, USA
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- Department of Radiology, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil,LIM44-Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance in Neuroradiology, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- FIDMAG Germanes Hospitalàries Research Foundation, Barcelona, Spain,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Psychiatry, Brain Center Rudolf Magnus, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil,Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Applied Neurosciences (NAPNA), University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Radiology, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil,LIM44-Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance in Neuroradiology, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil,Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Applied Neurosciences (NAPNA), University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
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- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Osher Centre, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden,Department of Neuroradiology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Osher Centre, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden,Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, The Sahlgrenska Academy at the Gothenburg University, Goteborg, Sweden
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- Department of Psychology, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, Brain Center Rudolf Magnus, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Section for Experimental Psychopathology and Neuroimaging, Department of General Psychiatry, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Neuroscience Research Australia, Sydney, NSW, Australia,School of Medical Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- School of Psychiatry and Black Dog Institute, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Psychiatry, Brain Center Rudolf Magnus, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Neuroscience Research Australia, Sydney, NSW, Australia,School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil,National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Brain Center Rudolf Magnus, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands,Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- FIDMAG Germanes Hospitalàries Research Foundation, Barcelona, Spain,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada,National Institute of Mental Health, Klecany, Czech Republic
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Division of Clinical Neuroscience, Department of Research and Education, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway,Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Janssen Research & Development, Titusville, NJ, USA
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- MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
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- NORMENT, KG Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway,Department of Psychiatric Research, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- Imaging Genetics Center, Mark and Mary Stevens Institute for Neuroimaging & Informatics, University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, CA, USA
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- NORMENT, KG Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway,Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway,NORMENT, KG Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research—TOP Study, Oslo University Hospital, Ullevål, Building 49, Kirkeveien 166, PO Box 4956, Nydalen, 0424, Oslo, Norway. E-mail:
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Deary V, Hagenaars SP, Harris SE, Hill WD, Davies G, Liewald DCM, McIntosh AM, Gale CR, Deary IJ. Genetic contributions to self-reported tiredness. Mol Psychiatry 2018; 23:609-620. [PMID: 28194004 PMCID: PMC5822465 DOI: 10.1038/mp.2017.5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2016] [Revised: 12/01/2016] [Accepted: 12/13/2016] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
Abstract
Self-reported tiredness and low energy, often called fatigue, are associated with poorer physical and mental health. Twin studies have indicated that this has a heritability between 6 and 50%. In the UK Biobank sample (N=108 976), we carried out a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of responses to the question, 'Over the last two weeks, how often have you felt tired or had little energy?' Univariate GCTA-GREML found that the proportion of variance explained by all common single-nucleotide polymorphisms for this tiredness question was 8.4% (s.e.=0.6%). GWAS identified one genome-wide significant hit (Affymetrix id 1:64178756_C_T; P=1.36 × 10-11). Linkage disequilibrium score regression and polygenic profile score analyses were used to test for shared genetic aetiology between tiredness and up to 29 physical and mental health traits from GWAS consortia. Significant genetic correlations were identified between tiredness and body mass index (BMI), C-reactive protein, high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, forced expiratory volume, grip strength, HbA1c, longevity, obesity, self-rated health, smoking status, triglycerides, type 2 diabetes, waist-hip ratio, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder, neuroticism, schizophrenia and verbal-numerical reasoning (absolute rg effect sizes between 0.02 and 0.78). Significant associations were identified between tiredness phenotypic scores and polygenic profile scores for BMI, HDL cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, coronary artery disease, C-reactive protein, HbA1c, height, obesity, smoking status, triglycerides, type 2 diabetes, waist-hip ratio, childhood cognitive ability, neuroticism, bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder and schizophrenia (standardised β's had absolute values<0.03). These results suggest that tiredness is a partly heritable, heterogeneous and complex phenomenon that is phenotypically and genetically associated with affective, cognitive, personality and physiological processes.
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- V Deary
- Department of Psychology, Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Medical Genetics Section, University of Edinburgh, Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine and MRC Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Department of Psychology, Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK
- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Department of Psychology, Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK
- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Medical Genetics Section, University of Edinburgh, Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine and MRC Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
- MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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- Department of Psychology, Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK
- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Medical Genetics Section, University of Edinburgh, Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine and MRC Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
- MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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- Department of Psychology, Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK
- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Medical Genetics Section, University of Edinburgh, Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine and MRC Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
- MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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Wise T, Radua J, Via E, Cardoner N, Abe O, Adams TM, Amico F, Cheng Y, Cole JH, de Azevedo Marques Périco C, Dickstein DP, Farrow TFD, Frodl T, Wagner G, Gotlib IH, Gruber O, Ham BJ, Job DE, Kempton MJ, Kim MJ, Koolschijn PCMP, Malhi GS, Mataix-Cols D, McIntosh AM, Nugent AC, O'Brien JT, Pezzoli S, Phillips ML, Sachdev PS, Salvadore G, Selvaraj S, Stanfield AC, Thomas AJ, van Tol MJ, van der Wee NJA, Veltman DJ, Young AH, Fu CH, Cleare AJ, Arnone D. Common and distinct patterns of grey-matter volume alteration in major depression and bipolar disorder: evidence from voxel-based meta-analysis. Mol Psychiatry 2017; 22:1455-1463. [PMID: 27217146 PMCID: PMC5622121 DOI: 10.1038/mp.2016.72] [Citation(s) in RCA: 357] [Impact Index Per Article: 51.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2015] [Revised: 03/01/2016] [Accepted: 03/23/2016] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
Abstract
Finding robust brain substrates of mood disorders is an important target for research. The degree to which major depression (MDD) and bipolar disorder (BD) are associated with common and/or distinct patterns of volumetric changes is nevertheless unclear. Furthermore, the extant literature is heterogeneous with respect to the nature of these changes. We report a meta-analysis of voxel-based morphometry (VBM) studies in MDD and BD. We identified studies published up to January 2015 that compared grey matter in MDD (50 data sets including 4101 individuals) and BD (36 data sets including 2407 individuals) using whole-brain VBM. We used statistical maps from the studies included where available and reported peak coordinates otherwise. Group comparisons and conjunction analyses identified regions in which the disorders showed common and distinct patterns of volumetric alteration. Both disorders were associated with lower grey-matter volume relative to healthy individuals in a number of areas. Conjunction analysis showed smaller volumes in both disorders in clusters in the dorsomedial and ventromedial prefrontal cortex, including the anterior cingulate cortex and bilateral insula. Group comparisons indicated that findings of smaller grey-matter volumes relative to controls in the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and left hippocampus, along with cerebellar, temporal and parietal regions were more substantial in major depression. These results suggest that MDD and BD are characterised by both common and distinct patterns of grey-matter volume changes. This combination of differences and similarities has the potential to inform the development of diagnostic biomarkers for these conditions.
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- T Wise
- Department of Psychological Medicine, Centre for Affective Disorders, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, London, UK
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- Department of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, London, UK
- Research Unit, FIDMAG Germanes Hospitalàries – CIBERSAM, Sant Boi de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Mental Health, Parc Taulí Sabadell-CIBERSAM, University Hospital, Sabadell, Barcelona, Spain
- Department of Psychiatry, Bellvitge University Hospital-IDIBELL, Barcelona, Spain
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- Mental Health, Parc Taulí Sabadell-CIBERSAM, University Hospital, Sabadell, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Radiology, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Psychological Medicine, Centre for Affective Disorders, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, London, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
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- Department of Psychiatry, The 1st Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming, PR China
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- Computational, Cognitive and Clinical Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Neuroscience, Medical School, Fundação do ABC, Santo André, SP, Brazil
- ABC Center of Studies on Mental Health, Santo André, SP, Brazil
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- PediMIND Program, Bradley Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, Brown University, East Providence, RI, USA
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- Academic Clinical Neurology, Department of Neuroscience, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Dublin, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
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- Psychiatric Brain and Body Research Group Jena, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Section for Experimental Psychopathology and Neuroimaging, Department of General Psychiatry, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
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- Neuroimaging Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Scottish Imaging Network–A Platform for Scientific Excellence (SINAPSE), Giffnock, UK
- Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Department of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, London, UK
- Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, London, UK
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Dutch Autism and ADHD Research Center, Brain and Cognition, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- CADE Clinic, Discipline of Psychiatry, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, London, UK
- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Experimental Therapeutics and Pathophysiology Branch, Intramural Research Program, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Institute for Ageing and Health, Newcastle University, Campus for Ageing and Vitality, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, London, UK
- Department of Neuroscience, Medical School, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA
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- Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA), School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Randwick, NSW, Australia
- Neuropsychiatric Institute, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, NSW, Australia
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- Janssen Research and Development, Titusville, NJ, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Center of Excellence on Mood Disorders, Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
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- The Patrick Wild Centre, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Institute for Ageing and Health, Newcastle University, Campus for Ageing and Vitality, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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- NeuroImaging Center, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychological Medicine, Centre for Affective Disorders, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, London, UK
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- Department of Psychological Medicine, Centre for Affective Disorders, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, London, UK
- School of Psychology, University of East London, London, UK
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- Department of Psychological Medicine, Centre for Affective Disorders, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, London, UK
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- Department of Psychological Medicine, Centre for Affective Disorders, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, London, UK
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Wigmore EM, Clarke TK, Howard DM, Adams MJ, Hall LS, Zeng Y, Gibson J, Davies G, Fernandez-Pujals AM, Thomson PA, Hayward C, Smith BH, Hocking LJ, Padmanabhan S, Deary IJ, Porteous DJ, Nicodemus KK, McIntosh AM. Do regional brain volumes and major depressive disorder share genetic architecture? A study of Generation Scotland (n=19 762), UK Biobank (n=24 048) and the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (n=5766). Transl Psychiatry 2017; 7:e1205. [PMID: 28809859 PMCID: PMC5611720 DOI: 10.1038/tp.2017.148] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2016] [Revised: 05/08/2017] [Accepted: 06/07/2017] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
Abstract
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a heritable and highly debilitating condition. It is commonly associated with subcortical volumetric abnormalities, the most replicated of these being reduced hippocampal volume. Using the most recent published data from Enhancing Neuroimaging Genetics through Meta-analysis (ENIGMA) consortium's genome-wide association study of regional brain volume, we sought to test whether there is shared genetic architecture between seven subcortical brain volumes and intracranial volume (ICV) and MDD. We explored this using linkage disequilibrium score regression, polygenic risk scoring (PRS) techniques, Mendelian randomisation (MR) analysis and BUHMBOX. Utilising summary statistics from ENIGMA and Psychiatric Genomics Consortium, we demonstrated that hippocampal volume was positively genetically correlated with MDD (rG=0.46, P=0.02), although this did not survive multiple comparison testing. None of the other six brain regions studied were genetically correlated and amygdala volume heritability was too low for analysis. Using PRS analysis, no regional volumetric PRS demonstrated a significant association with MDD or recurrent MDD. MR analysis in hippocampal volume and MDD identified no causal association, however, BUHMBOX analysis identified genetic subgrouping in GS:SFHS MDD cases only (P=0.00281). In this study, we provide some evidence that hippocampal volume and MDD may share genetic architecture in a subgroup of individuals, albeit the genetic correlation did not survive multiple testing correction and genetic subgroup heterogeneity was not replicated. In contrast, we found no evidence to support a shared genetic architecture between MDD and other regional subcortical volumes or ICV.
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- E M Wigmore
- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Edinburgh, UK,Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Edinburgh EH10 5HF, UK. E-mail:
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK,Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
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- Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
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- Division of Population Health Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK
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- Division of Applied Medicine, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
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- Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK,Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK,Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Edinburgh, UK,Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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Witt SH, Streit F, Jungkunz M, Frank J, Awasthi S, Reinbold CS, Treutlein J, Degenhardt F, Forstner AJ, Heilmann-Heimbach S, Dietl L, Schwarze CE, Schendel D, Strohmaier J, Abdellaoui A, Adolfsson R, Air TM, Akil H, Alda M, Alliey-Rodriguez N, Andreassen OA, Babadjanova G, Bass NJ, Bauer M, Baune BT, Bellivier F, Bergen S, Bethell A, Biernacka JM, Blackwood DHR, Boks MP, Boomsma DI, Børglum AD, Borrmann-Hassenbach M, Brennan P, Budde M, Buttenschøn HN, Byrne EM, Cervantes P, Clarke TK, Craddock N, Cruceanu C, Curtis D, Czerski PM, Dannlowski U, Davis T, de Geus EJC, Di Florio A, Djurovic S, Domenici E, Edenberg HJ, Etain B, Fischer SB, Forty L, Fraser C, Frye MA, Fullerton JM, Gade K, Gershon ES, Giegling I, Gordon SD, Gordon-Smith K, Grabe HJ, Green EK, Greenwood TA, Grigoroiu-Serbanescu M, Guzman-Parra J, Hall LS, Hamshere M, Hauser J, Hautzinger M, Heilbronner U, Herms S, Hitturlingappa S, Hoffmann P, Holmans P, Hottenga JJ, Jamain S, Jones I, Jones LA, Juréus A, Kahn RS, Kammerer-Ciernioch J, Kirov G, Kittel-Schneider S, Kloiber S, Knott SV, Kogevinas M, Landén M, Leber M, Leboyer M, Li QS, Lissowska J, Lucae S, Martin NG, Mayoral-Cleries F, McElroy SL, McIntosh AM, McKay JD, McQuillin A, Medland SE, Middeldorp CM, Milaneschi Y, Mitchell PB, Montgomery GW, Morken G, Mors O, Mühleisen TW, Müller-Myhsok B, Myers RM, Nievergelt CM, Nurnberger JI, O'Donovan MC, Loohuis LMO, Ophoff R, Oruc L, Owen MJ, Paciga SA, Penninx BWJH, Perry A, Pfennig A, Potash JB, Preisig M, Reif A, Rivas F, Rouleau GA, Schofield PR, Schulze TG, Schwarz M, Scott L, Sinnamon GCB, Stahl EA, Strauss J, Turecki G, Van der Auwera S, Vedder H, Vincent JB, Willemsen G, Witt CC, Wray NR, Xi HS, Tadic A, Dahmen N, Schott BH, Cichon S, Nöthen MM, Ripke S, Mobascher A, Rujescu D, Lieb K, Roepke S, Schmahl C, Bohus M, Rietschel M. Genome-wide association study of borderline personality disorder reveals genetic overlap with bipolar disorder, major depression and schizophrenia. Transl Psychiatry 2017; 7:e1155. [PMID: 28632202 PMCID: PMC5537640 DOI: 10.1038/tp.2017.115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2017] [Accepted: 04/10/2017] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
Abstract
Borderline personality disorder (BOR) is determined by environmental and genetic factors, and characterized by affective instability and impulsivity, diagnostic symptoms also observed in manic phases of bipolar disorder (BIP). Up to 20% of BIP patients show comorbidity with BOR. This report describes the first case-control genome-wide association study (GWAS) of BOR, performed in one of the largest BOR patient samples worldwide. The focus of our analysis was (i) to detect genes and gene sets involved in BOR and (ii) to investigate the genetic overlap with BIP. As there is considerable genetic overlap between BIP, major depression (MDD) and schizophrenia (SCZ) and a high comorbidity of BOR and MDD, we also analyzed the genetic overlap of BOR with SCZ and MDD. GWAS, gene-based tests and gene-set analyses were performed in 998 BOR patients and 1545 controls. Linkage disequilibrium score regression was used to detect the genetic overlap between BOR and these disorders. Single marker analysis revealed no significant association after correction for multiple testing. Gene-based analysis yielded two significant genes: DPYD (P=4.42 × 10-7) and PKP4 (P=8.67 × 10-7); and gene-set analysis yielded a significant finding for exocytosis (GO:0006887, PFDR=0.019; FDR, false discovery rate). Prior studies have implicated DPYD, PKP4 and exocytosis in BIP and SCZ. The most notable finding of the present study was the genetic overlap of BOR with BIP (rg=0.28 [P=2.99 × 10-3]), SCZ (rg=0.34 [P=4.37 × 10-5]) and MDD (rg=0.57 [P=1.04 × 10-3]). We believe our study is the first to demonstrate that BOR overlaps with BIP, MDD and SCZ on the genetic level. Whether this is confined to transdiagnostic clinical symptoms should be examined in future studies.
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Affiliation(s)
- S H Witt
- Central Institute of Mental Health, Department of Genetic Epidemiology in Psychiatry, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
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- Central Institute of Mental Health, Department of Genetic Epidemiology in Psychiatry, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
| | - M Jungkunz
- Central Institute of Mental Health, Clinic of Psychosomatic and Psychotherapeutic Medicine, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
- Central Institute of Mental Health, Institute for Psychiatric and Psychosomatic Psychotherapy (IPPP)/Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
| | - J Frank
- Central Institute of Mental Health, Department of Genetic Epidemiology in Psychiatry, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
| | - S Awasthi
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Mitte, Berlin, Germany
| | - C S Reinbold
- Human Genomics Research Group, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
| | - J Treutlein
- Central Institute of Mental Health, Department of Genetic Epidemiology in Psychiatry, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
| | - F Degenhardt
- Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- Life and Brain Center, Department of Genomics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
| | - A J Forstner
- Human Genomics Research Group, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- Life and Brain Center, Department of Genomics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- Department of Psychiatry (UPK), University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
| | | | - L Dietl
- Department of Psychiatry, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany
| | - C E Schwarze
- Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - D Schendel
- Central Institute of Mental Health, Department of Genetic Epidemiology in Psychiatry, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
| | - J Strohmaier
- Central Institute of Mental Health, Department of Genetic Epidemiology in Psychiatry, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
| | - A Abdellaoui
- Department of Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
| | - R Adolfsson
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Psychiatry, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
| | - T M Air
- Discipline of Psychiatry, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
| | - H Akil
- Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
| | - M Alda
- Department of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
| | - O A Andreassen
- Division Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
- NORMENT, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - G Babadjanova
- Institute of Pulmonology, Russian State Medical University, Moscow, Russian Federation
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- Division of Psychiatry, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden, Germany
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- Discipline of Psychiatry, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
| | - F Bellivier
- Inserm, U1144, AP-HP, GH Saint-Louis, Département de Psychiatrie et de Médecine Addictologique, Paris, France
| | - S Bergen
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - A Bethell
- National Center for Mental Health, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
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- Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Urain Center Rudolf Magnus, Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
- iSEQ, Centre for Integrative Sequencing, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
- iPSYCH, The Lundbeck Foundation Initiative for Integrative Psychiatric Research, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Genetic Epidemiology Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
| | - M Budde
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Göttingen, Goettingen, Germany
- Medical Center of the University of Munich, Campus Innenstadt, Institute of Psychiatric Phenomics and Genomics (IPPG), Munich, Germany
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- Translational Neuropsychiatry Unit, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Division of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
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- Department of Translational Research in Psychiatry, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
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- Centre for Psychiatry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
- UCL Genetics Institute, University College London, London, UK
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- Laboratory of Psychiatric Genetics, Department of Psychiatry, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Münste, Münster, Germany
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- Discipline of Psychiatry, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
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- Department of Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Division of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Oslo University Hospital Ullevål, Oslo, Norway
- NORMENT, KG Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, Department of Clinical Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Centre for Integrative Biology, Università degli Studi di Trento, Trento, Italy
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- Indiana University School of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indianapolis, IN, USA
- Indiana University School of Medicine, Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Indianapolis, IN, USA
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- Faculté de Médecine, Université Paris Est, Créteil, France
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- Human Genomics Research Group, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Division of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
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- Division of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- School of Medical Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Neuroscience Research Australia, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Göttingen, Goettingen, Germany
- Medical Center of the University of Munich, Campus Innenstadt, Institute of Psychiatric Phenomics and Genomics (IPPG), Munich, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Halle, Halle, Germany
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- Genetics and Computational Biology, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Worcester, Worcester, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- School of Biomedical and Healthcare Sciences, Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry, Plymouth, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Biometric Psychiatric Genetics Research Unit, Alexandru Obregia Clinical Psychiatric Hospital, Bucharest, Romania
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- Mental Health Department, Biomedicine Institute, University Regional Hospital, Málaga, Spain
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Institute of Genetic Medicine, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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- Division of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
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- Laboratory of Psychiatric Genetics, Department of Psychiatry, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland
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- Department of Psychology, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tubingen, Germany
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- Medical Center of the University of Munich, Campus Innenstadt, Institute of Psychiatric Phenomics and Genomics (IPPG), Munich, Germany
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- Human Genomics Research Group, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- Life and Brain Center, Department of Genomics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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- Discipline of Psychiatry, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
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- Human Genomics Research Group, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- Life and Brain Center, Department of Genomics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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- Division of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
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- Department of Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
| | - S Jamain
- Faculté de Médecine, Université Paris Est, Créteil, France
- Inserm U955, Psychiatrie Translationnelle, Créteil, France
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- National Center for Mental Health, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
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- Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Worcester, Worcester, UK
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- University Medical Center Utrecht, Division of Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, Utrecht, The Netherlands
| | | | - G Kirov
- Division of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
| | - S V Knott
- Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Worcester, Worcester, UK
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- Center for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Inserm U955, Translational Psychiatry Laboratory, AP-HP, DHU PePSY, Department of Psychiatry, Université Paris Est, Créteil, France
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- Janssen Research and Development, LLC, Neuroscience Therapeutic Area, Titusville, NJ, USA
| | - J Lissowska
- M. Sklodowska-Curie Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention, Warsaw, Poland
| | - S Lucae
- Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
| | - N G Martin
- Genetics and Computational Biology, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
- School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
| | - F Mayoral-Cleries
- Mental Health Department, Biomedicine Institute, University Regional Hospital, Málaga, Spain
| | - S L McElroy
- Lindner Center of HOPE, Research Institute, Mason, OH, USA
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Genetic Cancer Susceptibility Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
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- Division of Psychiatry, University College London, London, UK
| | - S E Medland
- Genetics and Computational Biology, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
| | - C M Middeldorp
- Department of Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- VU University Medical Center and GGZ inGeest, Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Black Dog Institute, Sydney, NSW, Australia
| | - G W Montgomery
- Institute for Molecular Biology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Department of Neuroscience, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
- Department of Psychiatry, St Olavs University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway
| | - O Mors
- Risskov, Psychosis Research Unit, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
- iPSYCH, The Lundbeck Foundation Initiative for Integrative Psychiatric Research, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
| | - T W Mühleisen
- Research Center Juelich, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1), Juelich, Germany
- Division of Medical Genetics, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Translational Research in Psychiatry, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
- Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (SyNergy), Munich, Germany
- University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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- HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, AL, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
| | - J I Nurnberger
- Department of Psychiatry, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA
| | - M C O'Donovan
- MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
| | - L M O Loohuis
- Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
| | - R Ophoff
- University Medical Center Utrecht, Division of Brain Research, Utrecht, The Netherlands
| | - L Oruc
- Psychiatry Clinic, Clinical Center University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina
| | - M J Owen
- MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
| | - S A Paciga
- Pfizer Global Research and Development, Human Genetics and Computational Biomedicine, Groton, CT, USA
| | - B W J H Penninx
- VU University Medical Center and GGZ inGeest, Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
| | - A Perry
- Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Worcester, Worcester, UK
| | - A Pfennig
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden, Germany
| | - J B Potash
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
| | - M Preisig
- Department of Psychiatry, Psychiatric University Hospital of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
| | - A Reif
- Department of Psychiatry, Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
| | - F Rivas
- Mental Health Department, Biomedicine Institute, University Regional Hospital, Málaga, Spain
| | - G A Rouleau
- Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- School of Medical Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Neuroscience Research Australia, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Central Institute of Mental Health, Department of Genetic Epidemiology in Psychiatry, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Göttingen, Goettingen, Germany
- Medical Center of the University of Munich, Campus Innenstadt, Institute of Psychiatric Phenomics and Genomics (IPPG), Munich, Germany
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
- NIMH Division of Intramural Research Programs, Human Genetics Branch, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Psychiatric Center Nordbaden, Wiesloch, Germany
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- Center for Statistical Genetics, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
| | - G C B Sinnamon
- School of Medicine and Dentistry, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Medical and Population Genetics, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Division of Psychiatric Genomics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada
| | - G Turecki
- Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Psychiatric Center Nordbaden, Wiesloch, Germany
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- Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Molecular Neuropsychiatry and Development Laboratory, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Anaesthesiology and Operative Intensive Care, University Hospital Mannheim, Medical Faculty Mannheim/Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
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- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
- Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Pfizer Global Research and Development, Computational Sciences Center of Emphasis, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Central Institute of Mental Health, Department of Genetic Epidemiology in Psychiatry, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
- Central Institute of Mental Health, Clinic of Psychosomatic and Psychotherapeutic Medicine, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
- Central Institute of Mental Health, Institute for Psychiatric and Psychosomatic Psychotherapy (IPPP)/Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Mitte, Berlin, Germany
- Human Genomics Research Group, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- Life and Brain Center, Department of Genomics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- Department of Psychiatry (UPK), University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- Department of Psychiatry, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany
- Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
- Department of Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Psychiatry, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- Discipline of Psychiatry, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
- Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
- Division Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
- NORMENT, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Institute of Pulmonology, Russian State Medical University, Moscow, Russian Federation
- Division of Psychiatry, University College London, London, UK
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden, Germany
- Inserm, U1144, AP-HP, GH Saint-Louis, Département de Psychiatrie et de Médecine Addictologique, Paris, France
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- National Center for Mental Health, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
- Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Urain Center Rudolf Magnus, Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
- iSEQ, Centre for Integrative Sequencing, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
- iPSYCH, The Lundbeck Foundation Initiative for Integrative Psychiatric Research, Aarhus, Denmark
- Medical and Quality Assurance, Clinics of Upper Bavaria, Munich, Germany
- Genetic Epidemiology Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Göttingen, Goettingen, Germany
- Medical Center of the University of Munich, Campus Innenstadt, Institute of Psychiatric Phenomics and Genomics (IPPG), Munich, Germany
- Translational Neuropsychiatry Unit, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
- Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Division of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
- Department of Translational Research in Psychiatry, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
- Centre for Psychiatry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
- UCL Genetics Institute, University College London, London, UK
- Laboratory of Psychiatric Genetics, Department of Psychiatry, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Münste, Münster, Germany
- Division of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
- Department of Medical Genetics, Oslo University Hospital Ullevål, Oslo, Norway
- NORMENT, KG Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, Department of Clinical Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
- Centre for Integrative Biology, Università degli Studi di Trento, Trento, Italy
- Indiana University School of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indianapolis, IN, USA
- Indiana University School of Medicine, Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Indianapolis, IN, USA
- Faculté de Médecine, Université Paris Est, Créteil, France
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
- School of Medical Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Neuroscience Research Australia, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Halle, Halle, Germany
- Genetics and Computational Biology, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
- Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Worcester, Worcester, UK
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- School of Biomedical and Healthcare Sciences, Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry, Plymouth, UK
- Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
- Biometric Psychiatric Genetics Research Unit, Alexandru Obregia Clinical Psychiatric Hospital, Bucharest, Romania
- Mental Health Department, Biomedicine Institute, University Regional Hospital, Málaga, Spain
- Institute of Genetic Medicine, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
- Department of Psychology, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tubingen, Germany
- Inserm U955, Psychiatrie Translationnelle, Créteil, France
- University Medical Center Utrecht, Division of Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Center of Psychiatry Weinsberg, Weinsberg, Germany
- Department of Psychiatry, Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
- Center for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), Barcelona, Spain
- Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany
- Inserm U955, Translational Psychiatry Laboratory, AP-HP, DHU PePSY, Department of Psychiatry, Université Paris Est, Créteil, France
- Janssen Research and Development, LLC, Neuroscience Therapeutic Area, Titusville, NJ, USA
- M. Sklodowska-Curie Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention, Warsaw, Poland
- School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
- Lindner Center of HOPE, Research Institute, Mason, OH, USA
- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Genetic Cancer Susceptibility Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
- Division of Psychiatry, University College London, London, UK
- VU University Medical Center and GGZ inGeest, Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Black Dog Institute, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Institute for Molecular Biology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
- Department of Neuroscience, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
- Department of Psychiatry, St Olavs University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway
- Risskov, Psychosis Research Unit, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
- iPSYCH, The Lundbeck Foundation Initiative for Integrative Psychiatric Research, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
- Research Center Juelich, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1), Juelich, Germany
- Division of Medical Genetics, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (SyNergy), Munich, Germany
- University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
- HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, AL, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA
- MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
- Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- University Medical Center Utrecht, Division of Brain Research, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Psychiatry Clinic, Clinical Center University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina
- Pfizer Global Research and Development, Human Genetics and Computational Biomedicine, Groton, CT, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, Psychiatric University Hospital of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
- NIMH Division of Intramural Research Programs, Human Genetics Branch, Bethesda, MD, USA
- Psychiatric Center Nordbaden, Wiesloch, Germany
- Center for Statistical Genetics, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- School of Medicine and Dentistry, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia
- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Medical and Population Genetics, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Division of Psychiatric Genomics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
- Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Molecular Neuropsychiatry and Development Laboratory, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Department of Anaesthesiology and Operative Intensive Care, University Hospital Mannheim, Medical Faculty Mannheim/Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
- Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
- Pfizer Global Research and Development, Computational Sciences Center of Emphasis, Cambridge, MA, USA
- AGAPLESION Elisabethenstift gGmbh, Department of Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, Darmstadt, Germany
- University Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Mainz, Germany
- Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany
- Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research and Medical and Population Genetics Program, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Major Depressive Disorder Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium
- Central Institute of Mental Health, Department of Genetic Epidemiology in Psychiatry, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
- Central Institute of Mental Health, Clinic of Psychosomatic and Psychotherapeutic Medicine, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
- Central Institute of Mental Health, Institute for Psychiatric and Psychosomatic Psychotherapy (IPPP)/Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Mitte, Berlin, Germany
- Human Genomics Research Group, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- Life and Brain Center, Department of Genomics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- Department of Psychiatry (UPK), University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- Department of Psychiatry, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany
- Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
- Department of Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Psychiatry, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- Discipline of Psychiatry, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
- Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
- Division Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
- NORMENT, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Institute of Pulmonology, Russian State Medical University, Moscow, Russian Federation
- Division of Psychiatry, University College London, London, UK
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden, Germany
- Inserm, U1144, AP-HP, GH Saint-Louis, Département de Psychiatrie et de Médecine Addictologique, Paris, France
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- National Center for Mental Health, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
- Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Urain Center Rudolf Magnus, Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
- iSEQ, Centre for Integrative Sequencing, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
- iPSYCH, The Lundbeck Foundation Initiative for Integrative Psychiatric Research, Aarhus, Denmark
- Medical and Quality Assurance, Clinics of Upper Bavaria, Munich, Germany
- Genetic Epidemiology Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Göttingen, Goettingen, Germany
- Medical Center of the University of Munich, Campus Innenstadt, Institute of Psychiatric Phenomics and Genomics (IPPG), Munich, Germany
- Translational Neuropsychiatry Unit, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
- Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Division of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
- Department of Translational Research in Psychiatry, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
- Centre for Psychiatry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
- UCL Genetics Institute, University College London, London, UK
- Laboratory of Psychiatric Genetics, Department of Psychiatry, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Münste, Münster, Germany
- Division of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
- Department of Medical Genetics, Oslo University Hospital Ullevål, Oslo, Norway
- NORMENT, KG Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, Department of Clinical Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
- Centre for Integrative Biology, Università degli Studi di Trento, Trento, Italy
- Indiana University School of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indianapolis, IN, USA
- Indiana University School of Medicine, Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Indianapolis, IN, USA
- Faculté de Médecine, Université Paris Est, Créteil, France
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
- School of Medical Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Neuroscience Research Australia, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Halle, Halle, Germany
- Genetics and Computational Biology, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
- Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Worcester, Worcester, UK
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- School of Biomedical and Healthcare Sciences, Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry, Plymouth, UK
- Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
- Biometric Psychiatric Genetics Research Unit, Alexandru Obregia Clinical Psychiatric Hospital, Bucharest, Romania
- Mental Health Department, Biomedicine Institute, University Regional Hospital, Málaga, Spain
- Institute of Genetic Medicine, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
- Department of Psychology, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tubingen, Germany
- Inserm U955, Psychiatrie Translationnelle, Créteil, France
- University Medical Center Utrecht, Division of Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Center of Psychiatry Weinsberg, Weinsberg, Germany
- Department of Psychiatry, Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
- Center for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), Barcelona, Spain
- Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany
- Inserm U955, Translational Psychiatry Laboratory, AP-HP, DHU PePSY, Department of Psychiatry, Université Paris Est, Créteil, France
- Janssen Research and Development, LLC, Neuroscience Therapeutic Area, Titusville, NJ, USA
- M. Sklodowska-Curie Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention, Warsaw, Poland
- School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
- Lindner Center of HOPE, Research Institute, Mason, OH, USA
- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Genetic Cancer Susceptibility Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
- Division of Psychiatry, University College London, London, UK
- VU University Medical Center and GGZ inGeest, Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Black Dog Institute, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Institute for Molecular Biology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
- Department of Neuroscience, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
- Department of Psychiatry, St Olavs University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway
- Risskov, Psychosis Research Unit, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
- iPSYCH, The Lundbeck Foundation Initiative for Integrative Psychiatric Research, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
- Research Center Juelich, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1), Juelich, Germany
- Division of Medical Genetics, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (SyNergy), Munich, Germany
- University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
- HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, AL, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA
- MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
- Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- University Medical Center Utrecht, Division of Brain Research, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Psychiatry Clinic, Clinical Center University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina
- Pfizer Global Research and Development, Human Genetics and Computational Biomedicine, Groton, CT, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, Psychiatric University Hospital of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
- NIMH Division of Intramural Research Programs, Human Genetics Branch, Bethesda, MD, USA
- Psychiatric Center Nordbaden, Wiesloch, Germany
- Center for Statistical Genetics, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- School of Medicine and Dentistry, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia
- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Medical and Population Genetics, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Division of Psychiatric Genomics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
- Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Molecular Neuropsychiatry and Development Laboratory, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Department of Anaesthesiology and Operative Intensive Care, University Hospital Mannheim, Medical Faculty Mannheim/Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
- Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
- Pfizer Global Research and Development, Computational Sciences Center of Emphasis, Cambridge, MA, USA
- AGAPLESION Elisabethenstift gGmbh, Department of Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, Darmstadt, Germany
- University Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Mainz, Germany
- Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany
- Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research and Medical and Population Genetics Program, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Schizophrenia Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium
- Central Institute of Mental Health, Department of Genetic Epidemiology in Psychiatry, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
- Central Institute of Mental Health, Clinic of Psychosomatic and Psychotherapeutic Medicine, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
- Central Institute of Mental Health, Institute for Psychiatric and Psychosomatic Psychotherapy (IPPP)/Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Mitte, Berlin, Germany
- Human Genomics Research Group, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- Life and Brain Center, Department of Genomics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- Department of Psychiatry (UPK), University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- Department of Psychiatry, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany
- Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
- Department of Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Psychiatry, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- Discipline of Psychiatry, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
- Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
- Division Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
- NORMENT, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Institute of Pulmonology, Russian State Medical University, Moscow, Russian Federation
- Division of Psychiatry, University College London, London, UK
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden, Germany
- Inserm, U1144, AP-HP, GH Saint-Louis, Département de Psychiatrie et de Médecine Addictologique, Paris, France
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- National Center for Mental Health, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
- Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Urain Center Rudolf Magnus, Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
- iSEQ, Centre for Integrative Sequencing, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
- iPSYCH, The Lundbeck Foundation Initiative for Integrative Psychiatric Research, Aarhus, Denmark
- Medical and Quality Assurance, Clinics of Upper Bavaria, Munich, Germany
- Genetic Epidemiology Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Göttingen, Goettingen, Germany
- Medical Center of the University of Munich, Campus Innenstadt, Institute of Psychiatric Phenomics and Genomics (IPPG), Munich, Germany
- Translational Neuropsychiatry Unit, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
- Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Division of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
- Department of Translational Research in Psychiatry, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
- Centre for Psychiatry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
- UCL Genetics Institute, University College London, London, UK
- Laboratory of Psychiatric Genetics, Department of Psychiatry, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Münste, Münster, Germany
- Division of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
- Department of Medical Genetics, Oslo University Hospital Ullevål, Oslo, Norway
- NORMENT, KG Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, Department of Clinical Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
- Centre for Integrative Biology, Università degli Studi di Trento, Trento, Italy
- Indiana University School of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indianapolis, IN, USA
- Indiana University School of Medicine, Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Indianapolis, IN, USA
- Faculté de Médecine, Université Paris Est, Créteil, France
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
- School of Medical Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Neuroscience Research Australia, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Halle, Halle, Germany
- Genetics and Computational Biology, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
- Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Worcester, Worcester, UK
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- School of Biomedical and Healthcare Sciences, Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry, Plymouth, UK
- Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
- Biometric Psychiatric Genetics Research Unit, Alexandru Obregia Clinical Psychiatric Hospital, Bucharest, Romania
- Mental Health Department, Biomedicine Institute, University Regional Hospital, Málaga, Spain
- Institute of Genetic Medicine, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
- Department of Psychology, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tubingen, Germany
- Inserm U955, Psychiatrie Translationnelle, Créteil, France
- University Medical Center Utrecht, Division of Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Center of Psychiatry Weinsberg, Weinsberg, Germany
- Department of Psychiatry, Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
- Center for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), Barcelona, Spain
- Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany
- Inserm U955, Translational Psychiatry Laboratory, AP-HP, DHU PePSY, Department of Psychiatry, Université Paris Est, Créteil, France
- Janssen Research and Development, LLC, Neuroscience Therapeutic Area, Titusville, NJ, USA
- M. Sklodowska-Curie Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention, Warsaw, Poland
- School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
- Lindner Center of HOPE, Research Institute, Mason, OH, USA
- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Genetic Cancer Susceptibility Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
- Division of Psychiatry, University College London, London, UK
- VU University Medical Center and GGZ inGeest, Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Black Dog Institute, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Institute for Molecular Biology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
- Department of Neuroscience, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
- Department of Psychiatry, St Olavs University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway
- Risskov, Psychosis Research Unit, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
- iPSYCH, The Lundbeck Foundation Initiative for Integrative Psychiatric Research, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
- Research Center Juelich, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1), Juelich, Germany
- Division of Medical Genetics, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (SyNergy), Munich, Germany
- University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
- HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, AL, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA
- MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
- Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- University Medical Center Utrecht, Division of Brain Research, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Psychiatry Clinic, Clinical Center University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina
- Pfizer Global Research and Development, Human Genetics and Computational Biomedicine, Groton, CT, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, Psychiatric University Hospital of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
- NIMH Division of Intramural Research Programs, Human Genetics Branch, Bethesda, MD, USA
- Psychiatric Center Nordbaden, Wiesloch, Germany
- Center for Statistical Genetics, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- School of Medicine and Dentistry, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia
- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Medical and Population Genetics, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Division of Psychiatric Genomics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
- Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Molecular Neuropsychiatry and Development Laboratory, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Department of Anaesthesiology and Operative Intensive Care, University Hospital Mannheim, Medical Faculty Mannheim/Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
- Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
- Pfizer Global Research and Development, Computational Sciences Center of Emphasis, Cambridge, MA, USA
- AGAPLESION Elisabethenstift gGmbh, Department of Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, Darmstadt, Germany
- University Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Mainz, Germany
- Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany
- Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research and Medical and Population Genetics Program, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- AGAPLESION Elisabethenstift gGmbh, Department of Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, Darmstadt, Germany
- University Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Mainz, Germany
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- University Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Mitte, Berlin, Germany
- Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- Research Center Juelich, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1), Juelich, Germany
- Division of Medical Genetics, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- Life and Brain Center, Department of Genomics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Mitte, Berlin, Germany
- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research and Medical and Population Genetics Program, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- University Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Halle, Halle, Germany
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- University Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany
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- Central Institute of Mental Health, Clinic of Psychosomatic and Psychotherapeutic Medicine, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
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- Central Institute of Mental Health, Institute for Psychiatric and Psychosomatic Psychotherapy (IPPP)/Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
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- Central Institute of Mental Health, Department of Genetic Epidemiology in Psychiatry, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
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Schmaal L, Hibar DP, Sämann PG, Hall GB, Baune BT, Jahanshad N, Cheung JW, van Erp TGM, Bos D, Ikram MA, Vernooij MW, Niessen WJ, Tiemeier H, Hofman A, Wittfeld K, Grabe HJ, Janowitz D, Bülow R, Selonke M, Völzke H, Grotegerd D, Dannlowski U, Arolt V, Opel N, Heindel W, Kugel H, Hoehn D, Czisch M, Couvy-Duchesne B, Rentería ME, Strike LT, Wright MJ, Mills NT, de Zubicaray GI, McMahon KL, Medland SE, Martin NG, Gillespie NA, Goya-Maldonado R, Gruber O, Krämer B, Hatton SN, Lagopoulos J, Hickie IB, Frodl T, Carballedo A, Frey EM, van Velzen LS, Penninx BWJH, van Tol MJ, van der Wee NJ, Davey CG, Harrison BJ, Mwangi B, Cao B, Soares JC, Veer IM, Walter H, Schoepf D, Zurowski B, Konrad C, Schramm E, Normann C, Schnell K, Sacchet MD, Gotlib IH, MacQueen GM, Godlewska BR, Nickson T, McIntosh AM, Papmeyer M, Whalley HC, Hall J, Sussmann JE, Li M, Walter M, Aftanas L, Brack I, Bokhan NA, Thompson PM, Veltman DJ. Cortical abnormalities in adults and adolescents with major depression based on brain scans from 20 cohorts worldwide in the ENIGMA Major Depressive Disorder Working Group. Mol Psychiatry 2017; 22:900-909. [PMID: 27137745 PMCID: PMC5444023 DOI: 10.1038/mp.2016.60] [Citation(s) in RCA: 687] [Impact Index Per Article: 98.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2016] [Revised: 02/25/2016] [Accepted: 03/17/2016] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
Abstract
The neuro-anatomical substrates of major depressive disorder (MDD) are still not well understood, despite many neuroimaging studies over the past few decades. Here we present the largest ever worldwide study by the ENIGMA (Enhancing Neuro Imaging Genetics through Meta-Analysis) Major Depressive Disorder Working Group on cortical structural alterations in MDD. Structural T1-weighted brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans from 2148 MDD patients and 7957 healthy controls were analysed with harmonized protocols at 20 sites around the world. To detect consistent effects of MDD and its modulators on cortical thickness and surface area estimates derived from MRI, statistical effects from sites were meta-analysed separately for adults and adolescents. Adults with MDD had thinner cortical gray matter than controls in the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), anterior and posterior cingulate, insula and temporal lobes (Cohen's d effect sizes: -0.10 to -0.14). These effects were most pronounced in first episode and adult-onset patients (>21 years). Compared to matched controls, adolescents with MDD had lower total surface area (but no differences in cortical thickness) and regional reductions in frontal regions (medial OFC and superior frontal gyrus) and primary and higher-order visual, somatosensory and motor areas (d: -0.26 to -0.57). The strongest effects were found in recurrent adolescent patients. This highly powered global effort to identify consistent brain abnormalities showed widespread cortical alterations in MDD patients as compared to controls and suggests that MDD may impact brain structure in a highly dynamic way, with different patterns of alterations at different stages of life.
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- L Schmaal
- Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Imaging Genetics Center, Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Marina del Rey, CA, USA
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- Neuroimaging Core Unit, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
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- Discipline of Psychiatry, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
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- Imaging Genetics Center, Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Marina del Rey, CA, USA
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- Imaging Genetics Center, Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Marina del Rey, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Radiology, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Neurology, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Radiology, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Radiology, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Medical Informatics, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Faculty of Applied Sciences, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Erasmus University Medical Center-Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Site Rostock/Greifswald, Germany
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- German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Site Rostock/Greifswald, Germany
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Institute for Diagnostic Radiology and Neuroradiology, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Institute for Community Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), partner site Griefswald, Greifswald, Germany
- German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), partner site Griefswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany
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- Department of Clinical Radiology, University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany
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- Department of Clinical Radiology, University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany
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- Neuroimaging Core Unit, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
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- Neuroimaging Core Unit, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
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- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
- Center for Advanced Imaging, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
- Queensland Institute of Medical Research Berghofer, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Queensland Institute of Medical Research Berghofer, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
- Center for Advanced Imaging, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
- Queensland Institute of Medical Research Berghofer, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Center for Advanced Imaging, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Queensland Institute of Medical Research Berghofer, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Queensland Institute of Medical Research Berghofer, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Department of Psychiatry, Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Richmond, VA, USA
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- Centre for Translational Research in Systems Neuroscience and Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center (UMG), Georg-August-University, Göttingen, Germany
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- Section for Experimental Psychopathology and Neuroimaging, Department of General Psychiatry, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Section for Experimental Psychopathology and Neuroimaging, Department of General Psychiatry, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Clinical Research Unit, Brain and Mind Centre, University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, Australia
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- Clinical Research Unit, Brain and Mind Centre, University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, Australia
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- Clinical Research Unit, Brain and Mind Centre, University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany
- Department of Psychiatry and Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
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- Department of Psychiatry and Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Neuroimaging Center, Section of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, Department of Neuroscience, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry and Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Orygen, The National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Centre for Youth Mental Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- UT Center of Excellence on Mood Disoders, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
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- UT Center of Excellence on Mood Disoders, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
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- UT Center of Excellence on Mood Disoders, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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- Center for Integrative Psychiatry, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Agaplesion Diakonieklinikum Rotenburg, Rotenburg, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Section for Experimental Psychopathology and Neuroimaging, Department of General Psychiatry, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Neurosciences Program and Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Neurosciences Program and Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- University Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, UK
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
- Centre for Cogntive Ageing and Cogntive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburg, UK
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
- Division of Systems Neuroscience of Psychopathology, Translational Research Center, University Hospital of Psychiatry, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
- Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Institute, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
- Department of Psychiatry, NHS Borders, Melrose, UK
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- Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany
- Department of Psychiatry, University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Neuroscience, Scientific Research Institute of Physiology and Basic Medicine, Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Neuroscience, Scientific Research Institute of Physiology and Basic Medicine, Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Mental Health Research Institute, Tomsk, Russia
- Faculty of Psychology, National Research Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia
- Department of General Medicine, Siberian State Medical University, Tomsk, Russia
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- Imaging Genetics Center, Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Marina del Rey, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Reus LM, Shen X, Gibson J, Wigmore E, Ligthart L, Adams MJ, Davies G, Cox SR, Hagenaars SP, Bastin ME, Deary IJ, Whalley HC, McIntosh AM. Association of polygenic risk for major psychiatric illness with subcortical volumes and white matter integrity in UK Biobank. Sci Rep 2017; 7:42140. [PMID: 28186152 PMCID: PMC5301496 DOI: 10.1038/srep42140] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2016] [Accepted: 01/03/2017] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
Abstract
Major depressive disorder (MDD), schizophrenia (SCZ) and bipolar disorder (BP) are common, disabling and heritable psychiatric diseases with a complex overlapping polygenic architecture. Individuals with these disorders, as well as their unaffected relatives, show widespread structural differences in corticostriatal and limbic networks. Structural variation in many of these brain regions is also heritable and polygenic but whether their genetic architecture overlaps with that of major psychiatric disorders is unknown. We sought to address this issue by examining the impact of polygenic risk of MDD, SCZ, and BP on subcortical brain volumes and white matter (WM) microstructure in a large single sample of neuroimaging data; the UK Biobank Imaging study. The first release of UK Biobank imaging data comprised participants with overlapping genetic data and subcortical volumes (N = 978) and WM measures (N = 816). The calculation of polygenic risk scores was based on genome-wide association study results generated by the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium. Our findings indicated no statistically significant associations between either subcortical volumes or WM microstructure, and polygenic risk for MDD, SCZ or BP. These findings suggest that subcortical brain volumes and WM microstructure may not be closely linked to the genetic mechanisms of major psychiatric disorders.
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- L. M. Reus
- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Edinburgh, EH10 5HF, United Kingdom
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Edinburgh, EH10 5HF, United Kingdom
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Edinburgh, EH10 5HF, United Kingdom
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Edinburgh, EH10 5HF, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Edinburgh, EH10 5HF, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9JZ, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9JZ, United Kingdom
- Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9JZ, United Kingdom
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Edinburgh, EH10 5HF, United Kingdom
- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9JZ, United Kingdom
- Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9JZ, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9JZ, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9JZ, United Kingdom
- Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9JZ, United Kingdom
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Edinburgh, EH10 5HF, United Kingdom
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Edinburgh, EH10 5HF, United Kingdom
- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9JZ, United Kingdom
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Navrady LB, Ritchie SJ, Chan SWY, Kerr DM, Adams MJ, Hawkins EH, Porteous D, Deary IJ, Gale CR, Batty GD, McIntosh AM. Intelligence and neuroticism in relation to depression and psychological distress: Evidence from two large population cohorts. Eur Psychiatry 2017; 43:58-65. [PMID: 28365468 PMCID: PMC5486156 DOI: 10.1016/j.eurpsy.2016.12.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2016] [Revised: 12/23/2016] [Accepted: 12/28/2016] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Background Neuroticism is a risk factor for selected mental and physical illnesses and is inversely associated with intelligence. Intelligence appears to interact with neuroticism and mitigate its detrimental effects on physical health and mortality. However, the inter-relationships of neuroticism and intelligence for major depressive disorder (MDD) and psychological distress has not been well examined. Methods Associations and interactions between neuroticism and general intelligence (g) on MDD, self-reported depression, and psychological distress were examined in two population-based cohorts: Generation Scotland: Scottish Family Health Study (GS:SFHS, n = 19,200) and UK Biobank (n = 90,529). The Eysenck Personality Scale Short Form-Revised measured neuroticism and g was extracted from multiple cognitive ability tests in each cohort. Family structure was adjusted for in GS:SFHS. Results Neuroticism was strongly associated with increased risk for depression and higher psychological distress in both samples. Although intelligence conferred no consistent independent effects on depression, it did increase the risk for depression across samples once neuroticism was adjusted for. Results suggest that higher intelligence may ameliorate the association between neuroticism and self-reported depression although no significant interaction was found for clinical MDD. Intelligence was inversely associated with psychological distress across cohorts. A small interaction was found across samples such that lower psychological distress associates with higher intelligence and lower neuroticism, although effect sizes were small. Conclusions From two large cohort studies, our findings suggest intelligence acts a protective factor in mitigating the effects of neuroticism on psychological distress. Intelligence does not confer protection against diagnosis of depression in those high in neuroticism.
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- L B Navrady
- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Edinburgh, EH10 5HF, UK.
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, 7, George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9JZ, UK; Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, 7, George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9JZ, UK
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- Section of Clinical Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Medical Quad, Teviot Place, Edinburgh, EH8 9AG, UK
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- NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, 1055 Great Western Road, Glasgow, G12 0XH, UK
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Edinburgh, EH10 5HF, UK
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Edinburgh, EH10 5HF, UK
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, 7, George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9JZ, UK; Medical Genetics Section, Centre for Genetics and Experimental Medicine, Institute for Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Crewe Road, Edinburgh, EH4 2XU, UK; Generation Scotland, Centre for Genetics and Experimental Medicine, Institute for Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Crewe Road, Edinburgh, EH4 2XU, UK
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, 7, George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9JZ, UK; Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, 7, George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9JZ, UK; Generation Scotland, Centre for Genetics and Experimental Medicine, Institute for Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Crewe Road, Edinburgh, EH4 2XU, UK
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, 7, George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9JZ, UK; MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, SO16 6YD, UK
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, 7, George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9JZ, UK; Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, 1-19 Torrington Place, London, WC1E 6BT, UK; Alzheimer Scotland Dementia Research Centre, Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, 7, George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9JZ, UK
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Edinburgh, EH10 5HF, UK; Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, 7, George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9JZ, UK; Generation Scotland, Centre for Genetics and Experimental Medicine, Institute for Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Crewe Road, Edinburgh, EH4 2XU, UK
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Hibar DP, Westlye LT, van Erp TGM, Rasmussen J, Leonardo CD, Faskowitz J, Haukvik UK, Hartberg CB, Doan NT, Agartz I, Dale AM, Gruber O, Krämer B, Trost S, Liberg B, Abé C, Ekman CJ, Ingvar M, Landén M, Fears SC, Freimer NB, Bearden CE, Sprooten E, Glahn DC, Pearlson GD, Emsell L, Kenney J, Scanlon C, McDonald C, Cannon DM, Almeida J, Versace A, Caseras X, Lawrence NS, Phillips ML, Dima D, Delvecchio G, Frangou S, Satterthwaite TD, Wolf D, Houenou J, Henry C, Malt UF, Bøen E, Elvsåshagen T, Young AH, Lloyd AJ, Goodwin GM, Mackay CE, Bourne C, Bilderbeck A, Abramovic L, Boks MP, van Haren NEM, Ophoff RA, Kahn RS, Bauer M, Pfennig A, Alda M, Hajek T, Mwangi B, Soares JC, Nickson T, Dimitrova R, Sussmann JE, Hagenaars S, Whalley HC, McIntosh AM, Thompson PM, Andreassen OA. Subcortical volumetric abnormalities in bipolar disorder. Mol Psychiatry 2016; 21:1710-1716. [PMID: 26857596 PMCID: PMC5116479 DOI: 10.1038/mp.2015.227] [Citation(s) in RCA: 310] [Impact Index Per Article: 38.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2014] [Revised: 12/08/2015] [Accepted: 12/11/2015] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Abstract
Considerable uncertainty exists about the defining brain changes associated with bipolar disorder (BD). Understanding and quantifying the sources of uncertainty can help generate novel clinical hypotheses about etiology and assist in the development of biomarkers for indexing disease progression and prognosis. Here we were interested in quantifying case-control differences in intracranial volume (ICV) and each of eight subcortical brain measures: nucleus accumbens, amygdala, caudate, hippocampus, globus pallidus, putamen, thalamus, lateral ventricles. In a large study of 1710 BD patients and 2594 healthy controls, we found consistent volumetric reductions in BD patients for mean hippocampus (Cohen's d=-0.232; P=3.50 × 10-7) and thalamus (d=-0.148; P=4.27 × 10-3) and enlarged lateral ventricles (d=-0.260; P=3.93 × 10-5) in patients. No significant effect of age at illness onset was detected. Stratifying patients based on clinical subtype (BD type I or type II) revealed that BDI patients had significantly larger lateral ventricles and smaller hippocampus and amygdala than controls. However, when comparing BDI and BDII patients directly, we did not detect any significant differences in brain volume. This likely represents similar etiology between BD subtype classifications. Exploratory analyses revealed significantly larger thalamic volumes in patients taking lithium compared with patients not taking lithium. We detected no significant differences between BDII patients and controls in the largest such comparison to date. Findings in this study should be interpreted with caution and with careful consideration of the limitations inherent to meta-analyzed neuroimaging comparisons.
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- D P Hibar
- Imaging Genetics Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Norwegian Centre for Mental Disorders Research, KG Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
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- Imaging Genetics Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Imaging Genetics Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Norwegian Centre for Mental Disorders Research, KG Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Psychiatric Research, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Norwegian Centre for Mental Disorders Research, KG Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Norwegian Centre for Mental Disorders Research, KG Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Norwegian Centre for Mental Disorders Research, KG Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Psychiatric Research, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- MMIL, Department of Radiology, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
- Department of Cognitive Science, Neurosciences and Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
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- Center for Translational Research in Systems Neuroscience and Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Georg August University Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
- Section for Experimental Psychopathology and Neuroimaging, Department of General Psychiatry, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Center for Translational Research in Systems Neuroscience and Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Georg August University Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
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- Center for Translational Research in Systems Neuroscience and Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Georg August University Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
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- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Section of Psychiatry, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Section of Psychiatry, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Karolinska MR Research Center, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Neuroradiology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Imaging Genetics Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Norwegian Centre for Mental Disorders Research, KG Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
- Department of Psychiatric Research, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway
- MMIL, Department of Radiology, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
- Department of Cognitive Science, Neurosciences and Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
- Center for Translational Research in Systems Neuroscience and Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Georg August University Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
- Section for Experimental Psychopathology and Neuroimaging, Department of General Psychiatry, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany
- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Section of Psychiatry, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Karolinska MR Research Center, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Neuroradiology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
- Olin Neuropsychiatric Research Center, Institute of Living, Hartford, CT, USA
- Department of Neurobiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
- Clinical Neuroimaging Laboratory, College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland
- Department of Psychiatry, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, Institute of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
- School of Psychology, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
- Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK
- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Neurospin, Uniact, I2BM, CEA Saclay, Saclay, France
- Inserm, U955, Equipe 15 Psychiatrie génétique, Créteil, France
- Université Paris-Est, UMR-S955, UPEC, Créteil, France
- Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Oslo University Hospital—Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway
- Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Research and Education, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
- Norwegian Research Network On Mood Disorders, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Neurology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
- Centre for Affective Disorders, King's College London, London, UK
- Academic Psychiatry and Regional Affective Disorders Service, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Department of Psychology and Counselling, Newman University, Birmingham, UK
- University of Oxford Centre for Clinical Magnetic Resonance Research, Oxford, UK
- Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Centre Utrecht - Brain Centre Rudolf Magnus, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Carl Gustav Carus University Hospital, Medizinische Fakultät, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
- Department of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
- National Institute of Mental Health, Klecany, Czech Republic
- UT Center of Excellence on Mood Disorders, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, UT Houston Medical School, Houston, TX, USA
- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
- Olin Neuropsychiatric Research Center, Institute of Living, Hartford, CT, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
- Olin Neuropsychiatric Research Center, Institute of Living, Hartford, CT, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
- Olin Neuropsychiatric Research Center, Institute of Living, Hartford, CT, USA
- Department of Neurobiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Clinical Neuroimaging Laboratory, College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland
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- Clinical Neuroimaging Laboratory, College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland
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- Clinical Neuroimaging Laboratory, College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland
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- Clinical Neuroimaging Laboratory, College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland
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- Clinical Neuroimaging Laboratory, College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland
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- Department of Psychiatry, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, Institute of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
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- School of Psychology, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
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- MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, Institute of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
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- Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK
- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Neurospin, Uniact, I2BM, CEA Saclay, Saclay, France
- Inserm, U955, Equipe 15 Psychiatrie génétique, Créteil, France
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- Inserm, U955, Equipe 15 Psychiatrie génétique, Créteil, France
- Université Paris-Est, UMR-S955, UPEC, Créteil, France
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- Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Oslo University Hospital—Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway
- Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Research and Education, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Psychiatric Research, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Oslo University Hospital—Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway
- Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Norwegian Research Network On Mood Disorders, Oslo, Norway
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- Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Norwegian Centre for Mental Disorders Research, KG Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Oslo University Hospital—Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway
- Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Neurology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- Centre for Affective Disorders, King's College London, London, UK
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- Academic Psychiatry and Regional Affective Disorders Service, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Department of Psychology and Counselling, Newman University, Birmingham, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- University of Oxford Centre for Clinical Magnetic Resonance Research, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Centre Utrecht - Brain Centre Rudolf Magnus, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Centre Utrecht - Brain Centre Rudolf Magnus, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Centre Utrecht - Brain Centre Rudolf Magnus, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Centre Utrecht - Brain Centre Rudolf Magnus, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Centre Utrecht - Brain Centre Rudolf Magnus, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Carl Gustav Carus University Hospital, Medizinische Fakultät, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Carl Gustav Carus University Hospital, Medizinische Fakultät, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
- National Institute of Mental Health, Klecany, Czech Republic
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- UT Center of Excellence on Mood Disorders, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, UT Houston Medical School, Houston, TX, USA
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- UT Center of Excellence on Mood Disorders, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, UT Houston Medical School, Houston, TX, USA
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Imaging Genetics Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Norwegian Centre for Mental Disorders Research, KG Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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Hagenaars SP, Harris SE, Davies G, Hill WD, Liewald DCM, Ritchie SJ, Marioni RE, Fawns-Ritchie C, Cullen B, Malik R, Worrall BB, Sudlow CLM, Wardlaw JM, Gallacher J, Pell J, McIntosh AM, Smith DJ, Gale CR, Deary IJ. Shared genetic aetiology between cognitive functions and physical and mental health in UK Biobank (N=112 151) and 24 GWAS consortia. Mol Psychiatry 2016; 21:1624-1632. [PMID: 26809841 PMCID: PMC5078856 DOI: 10.1038/mp.2015.225] [Citation(s) in RCA: 235] [Impact Index Per Article: 29.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2015] [Revised: 11/19/2015] [Accepted: 12/07/2015] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
Abstract
Causes of the well-documented association between low levels of cognitive functioning and many adverse neuropsychiatric outcomes, poorer physical health and earlier death remain unknown. We used linkage disequilibrium regression and polygenic profile scoring to test for shared genetic aetiology between cognitive functions and neuropsychiatric disorders and physical health. Using information provided by many published genome-wide association study consortia, we created polygenic profile scores for 24 vascular-metabolic, neuropsychiatric, physiological-anthropometric and cognitive traits in the participants of UK Biobank, a very large population-based sample (N=112 151). Pleiotropy between cognitive and health traits was quantified by deriving genetic correlations using summary genome-wide association study statistics and to the method of linkage disequilibrium score regression. Substantial and significant genetic correlations were observed between cognitive test scores in the UK Biobank sample and many of the mental and physical health-related traits and disorders assessed here. In addition, highly significant associations were observed between the cognitive test scores in the UK Biobank sample and many polygenic profile scores, including coronary artery disease, stroke, Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, autism, major depressive disorder, body mass index, intracranial volume, infant head circumference and childhood cognitive ability. Where disease diagnosis was available for UK Biobank participants, we were able to show that these results were not confounded by those who had the relevant disease. These findings indicate that a substantial level of pleiotropy exists between cognitive abilities and many human mental and physical health disorders and traits and that it can be used to predict phenotypic variance across samples.
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- S P Hagenaars
- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Medical Genetics Section, Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, MRC Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Medical Genetics Section, Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, MRC Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
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- Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research, Klinikum der Universität München, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Medical Genetics Section, Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, MRC Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
- Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
- Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research, Klinikum der Universität München, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany
- Department of Neurology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
- Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Medical Genetics Section, Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, MRC Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
- Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
- Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research, Klinikum der Universität München, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany
- Department of Neurology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
- Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Medical Genetics Section, Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, MRC Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
- Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
- Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research, Klinikum der Universität München, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany
- Department of Neurology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
- Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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- Department of Neurology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Medical Genetics Section, Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, MRC Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
- Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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Barker V, Bois C, Neilson E, Johnstone EC, Owens DGC, Whalley HC, McIntosh AM, Lawrie SM. Childhood adversity and hippocampal and amygdala volumes in a population at familial high risk of schizophrenia. Schizophr Res 2016; 175:42-47. [PMID: 27179666 DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2016.04.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2015] [Revised: 04/13/2016] [Accepted: 04/18/2016] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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BACKGROUND There is an established link between childhood adversity (CA) and schizophrenia. Hippocampus and amygdala abnormalities pre-date onset in those at high familial risk (fHR) of schizophrenia, but it is not clear whether these alterations are associated with CA in those at elevated risk of schizophrenia. METHODS We examined hippocampal and amygdala volumes in those at fHR who had been referred to a social worker or the Children's Panel compared to those who had not. RESULTS The right hippocampus and left amygdala were significantly smaller in those that had been referred to social work and Children's Panel. CONCLUSIONS Our findings suggest that CA can influence structural changes in the brain in a cohort at fHR of schizophrenia. These findings provide further evidence that while genetic factors contribute to the structural changes found in schizophrenia, environmental factors such as CA can have a lasting impact on specific brain regions.
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- V Barker
- Division of Psychiatry, Centre for Brain Sciences, School of Clinical Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Morningside Park, Edinburgh EH10 5HF, United Kingdom; Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Morningside Park, Edinburgh EH10 5HF, United Kingdom.
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- Division of Psychiatry, Centre for Brain Sciences, School of Clinical Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Morningside Park, Edinburgh EH10 5HF, United Kingdom
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- Division of Psychiatry, Centre for Brain Sciences, School of Clinical Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Morningside Park, Edinburgh EH10 5HF, United Kingdom
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- Division of Psychiatry, Centre for Brain Sciences, School of Clinical Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Morningside Park, Edinburgh EH10 5HF, United Kingdom
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- Division of Psychiatry, Centre for Brain Sciences, School of Clinical Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Morningside Park, Edinburgh EH10 5HF, United Kingdom; Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Morningside Park, Edinburgh EH10 5HF, United Kingdom
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- Division of Psychiatry, Centre for Brain Sciences, School of Clinical Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Morningside Park, Edinburgh EH10 5HF, United Kingdom
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- Division of Psychiatry, Centre for Brain Sciences, School of Clinical Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Morningside Park, Edinburgh EH10 5HF, United Kingdom; Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Morningside Park, Edinburgh EH10 5HF, United Kingdom
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- Division of Psychiatry, Centre for Brain Sciences, School of Clinical Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Morningside Park, Edinburgh EH10 5HF, United Kingdom; Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Morningside Park, Edinburgh EH10 5HF, United Kingdom
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Nickson T, Chan SWY, Papmeyer M, Romaniuk L, Macdonald A, Stewart T, Kielty S, Lawrie SM, Hall J, Sussmann JE, McIntosh AM, Whalley HC. Prospective longitudinal voxel-based morphometry study of major depressive disorder in young individuals at high familial risk. Psychol Med 2016; 46:2351-2361. [PMID: 27282778 DOI: 10.1017/s0033291716000519] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Previous neuroimaging studies indicate abnormalities in cortico-limbic circuitry in mood disorder. Here we employ prospective longitudinal voxel-based morphometry to examine the trajectory of these abnormalities during early stages of illness development. METHOD Unaffected individuals (16-25 years) at high and low familial risk of mood disorder underwent structural brain imaging on two occasions 2 years apart. Further clinical assessment was conducted 2 years after the second scan (time 3). Clinical outcome data at time 3 was used to categorize individuals: (i) healthy controls ('low risk', n = 48); (ii) high-risk individuals who remained well (HR well, n = 53); and (iii) high-risk individuals who developed a major depressive disorder (HR MDD, n = 30). Groups were compared using longitudinal voxel-based morphometry. We also examined whether progress to illness was associated with changes in other potential risk markers (personality traits, symptoms scores and baseline measures of childhood trauma), and whether any changes in brain structure could be indexed using these measures. RESULTS Significant decreases in right amygdala grey matter were found in HR MDD v. controls (p = 0.001) and v. HR well (p = 0.005). This structural change was not related to measures of childhood trauma, symptom severity or measures of sub-diagnostic anxiety, neuroticism or extraversion, although cross-sectionally these measures significantly differentiated the groups at baseline. CONCLUSIONS These longitudinal findings implicate structural amygdala changes in the neurobiology of mood disorder. They also provide a potential biomarker for risk stratification capturing additional information beyond clinically ascertained measures.
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- T Nickson
- Division of Psychiatry,University of Edinburgh,Edinburgh,UK
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- Clinical Psychology,University of Edinburgh,Edinburgh,UK
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- Division of Psychiatry,University of Edinburgh,Edinburgh,UK
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- Division of Psychiatry,University of Edinburgh,Edinburgh,UK
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- Division of Psychiatry,University of Edinburgh,Edinburgh,UK
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- Division of Psychiatry,University of Edinburgh,Edinburgh,UK
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- Division of Psychiatry,University of Edinburgh,Edinburgh,UK
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- Division of Psychiatry,University of Edinburgh,Edinburgh,UK
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- Division of Psychiatry,University of Edinburgh,Edinburgh,UK
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- Division of Psychiatry,University of Edinburgh,Edinburgh,UK
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- Division of Psychiatry,University of Edinburgh,Edinburgh,UK
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- Division of Psychiatry,University of Edinburgh,Edinburgh,UK
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Krystal JH, Abi-Dargham A, Akbarian S, Arnsten AFT, Barch DM, Bearden CE, Braff DL, Brown ES, Bullmore ET, Carlezon WA, Carter CS, Cook EH, Daskalakis ZJ, DiLeone RJ, Duman RS, Grace AA, Hariri AR, Harrison PJ, Hiroi N, Kenny PJ, Kleinman JE, Krystal AD, Lewis DA, Lipska BK, Marder SR, Mason GF, Mathalon DH, McClung CA, McDougle CJ, McIntosh AM, McMahon FJ, Mirnics K, Monteggia LM, Narendran R, Nestler EJ, Neumeister A, O’Donovan MC, Öngür D, Pariante CM, Paulus MP, Pearlson G, Phillips ML, Pine DS, Pizzagalli DA, Pletnikov MV, Ragland JD, Rapoport JL, Ressler KJ, Russo SJ, Sanacora G, Sawa A, Schatzberg AF, Shaham Y, Shamay-Tsoory SG, Sklar P, State MW, Stein MB, Strakowski SM, Taylor SF, Turecki G, Turetsky BI, Weissman MM, Zachariou V, Zarate CA, Zubieta JK. Constance E. Lieber, Theodore R. Stanley, and the Enduring Impact of Philanthropy on Psychiatry Research. Biol Psychiatry 2016; 80:84-86. [PMID: 27346079 PMCID: PMC6150945 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2016.05.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2016] [Revised: 05/09/2016] [Accepted: 05/09/2016] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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- JH Krystal
- Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut; Behavioral Health Services, Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut; Clinical Neuroscience Division, VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, Connecticut; Departments of Psychiatry and Radiology, Columbia University, New York, New York.
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- The New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, New York
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- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut; Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
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- Departments of Psychology and Radiology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
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- Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology and the Brain Research Institute, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California
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- Department of Psychiatry, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral and Neuroscience Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom; ImmunoPsychiatry, GlaxoSmithKline, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School, McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Imaging Research Center, and Center for Neuroscience, University of California at Davis, Davis, California
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- Institute of Juvenile Research, Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
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- Temerty Centre for Therapeutic Brain Intervention, Mood and Anxiety Division Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
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- Departments of Neuroscience, Psychiatry, and Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Neuroscience, and Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York
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- Department of Pharmacology & Systems Therapeutics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York
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- Genetic Neuropathology Section, Lieber Institute for Brain Development, and Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Human Brain Collection Core, Division of Intramural Research Programs, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Semel Institute for Neuroscience, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California; VA Desert Pacific Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center, Los Angeles, California
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- Departments of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging and Psychiatry, Yale University, School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California; Psychiatry Service, San Francisco VA Medical Center, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Massachusetts General Hospital and MassGeneral Hospital for Children, Lurie Center for Autism, Lexington, Massachusetts; Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- Human Genetics Branch and Genetic Basis of Mood and Anxiety Disorders Section, National Institute of Mental Health, Intramural Research Program, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Department of Psychiatry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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- Departments of Radiology and Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Neuroscience and Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York
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- Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Development America, Inc., Jersey City, New Jersey
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- MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Belmont, Massachusetts
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- Departments of Psychology and Neuroscience, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom; Psychiatry and Immunology Lab & Perinatal Psychiatry, The Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, London, United Kingdom
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, Oklahoma
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- Departments of Psychiatry and Neurobiology, Yale University and Olin Neuropsychiatric Research Center, Hartford, Connecticut
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- Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- National Institute of Mental Health, Intramural Research Program, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; McLean Imaging Center, McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts
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- Departments of Neuroscience and Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Imaging Research Center, University of California at Davis, Sacramento, California
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- Child Psychiatry Branch, Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Department of Psychiatry, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Belmont, Massachusetts
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- Department of Neuroscience and Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York
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- Department of Psychiatry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
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- Department of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California
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- Behavioral Neuroscience Branch, NIDA-IRP, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Psychology, University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, Haifa, Israel
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- Division of Psychiatric Genomics, Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Departments of Psychiatry and Family Medicine & Public Health, School of Medicine, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California
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- Department of Psychiatry, Dell Medical School, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- New York State Psychiatric Institute & Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York, New York
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- Fishberg Department of Neuroscience, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York
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- Experimental Therapeutics and Pathophysiology Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Department of Psychiatry, University Neuropsychiatric Institute, University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Salt Lake City, Utah
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Schmaal L, Veltman DJ, van Erp TGM, Sämann PG, Frodl T, Jahanshad N, Loehrer E, Tiemeier H, Hofman A, Niessen WJ, Vernooij MW, Ikram MA, Wittfeld K, Grabe HJ, Block A, Hegenscheid K, Völzke H, Hoehn D, Czisch M, Lagopoulos J, Hatton SN, Hickie IB, Goya-Maldonado R, Krämer B, Gruber O, Couvy-Duchesne B, Rentería ME, Strike LT, Mills NT, de Zubicaray GI, McMahon KL, Medland SE, Martin NG, Gillespie NA, Wright MJ, Hall GB, MacQueen GM, Frey EM, Carballedo A, van Velzen LS, van Tol MJ, van der Wee NJ, Veer IM, Walter H, Schnell K, Schramm E, Normann C, Schoepf D, Konrad C, Zurowski B, Nickson T, McIntosh AM, Papmeyer M, Whalley HC, Sussmann JE, Godlewska BR, Cowen PJ, Fischer FH, Rose M, Penninx BWJH, Thompson PM, Hibar DP. Subcortical brain alterations in major depressive disorder: findings from the ENIGMA Major Depressive Disorder working group. Mol Psychiatry 2016; 21:806-12. [PMID: 26122586 PMCID: PMC4879183 DOI: 10.1038/mp.2015.69] [Citation(s) in RCA: 672] [Impact Index Per Article: 84.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2014] [Revised: 03/13/2015] [Accepted: 04/01/2015] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
Abstract
The pattern of structural brain alterations associated with major depressive disorder (MDD) remains unresolved. This is in part due to small sample sizes of neuroimaging studies resulting in limited statistical power, disease heterogeneity and the complex interactions between clinical characteristics and brain morphology. To address this, we meta-analyzed three-dimensional brain magnetic resonance imaging data from 1728 MDD patients and 7199 controls from 15 research samples worldwide, to identify subcortical brain volumes that robustly discriminate MDD patients from healthy controls. Relative to controls, patients had significantly lower hippocampal volumes (Cohen's d=-0.14, % difference=-1.24). This effect was driven by patients with recurrent MDD (Cohen's d=-0.17, % difference=-1.44), and we detected no differences between first episode patients and controls. Age of onset ⩽21 was associated with a smaller hippocampus (Cohen's d=-0.20, % difference=-1.85) and a trend toward smaller amygdala (Cohen's d=-0.11, % difference=-1.23) and larger lateral ventricles (Cohen's d=0.12, % difference=5.11). Symptom severity at study inclusion was not associated with any regional brain volumes. Sample characteristics such as mean age, proportion of antidepressant users and proportion of remitted patients, and methodological characteristics did not significantly moderate alterations in brain volumes in MDD. Samples with a higher proportion of antipsychotic medication users showed larger caudate volumes in MDD patients compared with controls. This currently largest worldwide effort to identify subcortical brain alterations showed robust smaller hippocampal volumes in MDD patients, moderated by age of onset and first episode versus recurrent episode status.
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- L Schmaal
- Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands,Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam, VU University Medical Center, P.O. Box 74077, Amsterdam 1070 BB, The Netherlands. E-mail:
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
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- Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany,Department of Psychiatry, University of Dublin, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
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- Imaging Genetics Center, Department of Neurology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, CA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands,Department of Psychiatry, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Departments of Radiology and Medical Informatics, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands,Imaging Science and Technology, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands,Departments of Radiology and Medical Informatics, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands,Departments of Radiology and Medical Informatics, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands,Department of Neurology, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Rostock/Greifswald, Germany
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- German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Rostock/Greifswald, Germany,Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany,Helios Hospital Stralsund, Stralsund, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Institute of Diagnostic Radiology and Neuroradiology, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Institute for Community Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
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- Clinical Research Unit, Brain and Mind Research Institute, University of Sydney, Camperdown, Australia
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- Clinical Research Unit, Brain and Mind Research Institute, University of Sydney, Camperdown, Australia
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- Clinical Research Unit, Brain and Mind Research Institute, University of Sydney, Camperdown, Australia
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- Center for Translational Research in Systems Neuroscience and Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center, Goettingen, Germany
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- Center for Translational Research in Systems Neuroscience and Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center, Goettingen, Germany
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- Center for Translational Research in Systems Neuroscience and Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center, Goettingen, Germany
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- NeuroImaging Genetics, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD, Australia,School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia,Center for Advanced Imaging, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Genetic Epidemiology, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- NeuroImaging Genetics, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD, Australia,School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia,Center for Advanced Imaging, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Genetic Epidemiology, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD, Australia,Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Center for Advanced Imaging, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Quantitative Genetics, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Genetic Epidemiology, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA
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- NeuroImaging Genetics, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry, Mathison Centre for Mental Health Research and Education, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Institute of Neuroscience, University of Dublin, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, NeuroImaging Center, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands,Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Division of Mind and Brain Research, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Division of Mind and Brain Research, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of General Psychiatry, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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- Center for Integrative Psychiatry, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK,Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- University Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, UK
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- University Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Center for Internal Medicine and Dermatology, Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany,Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemology and Health Economics, Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Center for Internal Medicine and Dermatology, Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany,Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Imaging Genetics Center, Department of Neurology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, CA, USA
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- Imaging Genetics Center, Department of Neurology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, CA, USA
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Schmaal L, Veltman DJ, van Erp TGM, Sämann PG, Frodl T, Jahanshad N, Loehrer E, Vernooij MW, Niessen WJ, Ikram MA, Wittfeld K, Grabe HJ, Block A, Hegenscheid K, Hoehn D, Czisch M, Lagopoulos J, Hatton SN, Hickie IB, Goya-Maldonado R, Krämer B, Gruber O, Couvy-Duchesne B, Rentería ME, Strike LT, Wright MJ, de Zubicaray GI, McMahon KL, Medland SE, Gillespie NA, Hall GB, van Velzen LS, van Tol MJ, van der Wee NJ, Veer IM, Walter H, Schramm E, Normann C, Schoepf D, Konrad C, Zurowski B, McIntosh AM, Whalley HC, Sussmann JE, Godlewska BR, Fischer FH, Penninx BWJH, Thompson PM, Hibar DP. Response to Dr Fried & Dr Kievit, and Dr Malhi et al. Mol Psychiatry 2016; 21:726-8. [PMID: 26903270 PMCID: PMC4876636 DOI: 10.1038/mp.2016.9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- L Schmaal
- Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
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- Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Neuroimaging Research Group, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany
- Department of Psychiatry, Trinity College, University of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- Imaging Genetics Center, Department of Neurology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, CA, USA
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- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MS, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Radiology, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Radiology, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Medical Informatics, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Faculty of Applied Sciences, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Radiology, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Neurology, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Rostock/Greifswald, Germany
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- German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Rostock/Greifswald, Germany
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- Helios Hospital Stralsund, Stralsund, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Institute of Diagnostic Radiology and Neuroradiology, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Neuroimaging Research Group, Munich, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Neuroimaging Research Group, Munich, Germany
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- Clinical Research Unit, Brain and Mind Centre, University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, Australia
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- Clinical Research Unit, Brain and Mind Centre, University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, Australia
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- Clinical Research Unit, Brain and Mind Centre, University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, Australia
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- Center for Translational Research in Systems Neuroscience and Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center (UMG), Gerog-August-University, Goettingen, Germany
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- Center for Translational Research in Systems Neuroscience and Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center (UMG), Gerog-August-University, Goettingen, Germany
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- Section for Experimental Psychopathology and Neuroimaging, Department of General Psychiatry, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
- Center for Advanced Imaging, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
- Queensland Institute of Medical Research Berghofer, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Department of Genetic Epidemiology, Queensland Institute of Medical Research Berghofer, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
- Center for Advanced Imaging, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Faculty of Health, The Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Center for Advanced Imaging, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Department of Quantitative Genetics, Queensland Institute of Medical Research Berghofer, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
- Imaging Research Centre, St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton, Hamilton, ON, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Neuroscience, Neuroimaging Center, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Division of Mind and Brain Research, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Division of Mind and Brain Research, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
- Psychiatric University Clinic, Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Agaplesion Diakoniklinikum, Rotenburg, Germany
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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- Center for Integrative Psychiatry, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, UK
- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, UK
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, UK
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Center for Internal Medicine and Dermatology, Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany
- Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemology and Health Economics, Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Imaging Genetics Center, Department of Neurology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, CA, USA
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- Imaging Genetics Center, Department of Neurology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, CA, USA
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Gale CR, Hagenaars SP, Davies G, Hill WD, Liewald DCM, Cullen B, Penninx BW, Boomsma DI, Pell J, McIntosh AM, Smith DJ, Deary IJ, Harris SE. Pleiotropy between neuroticism and physical and mental health: findings from 108 038 men and women in UK Biobank. Transl Psychiatry 2016; 6:e791. [PMID: 27115122 PMCID: PMC4872414 DOI: 10.1038/tp.2016.56] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2015] [Revised: 01/15/2016] [Accepted: 03/05/2016] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
Abstract
People with higher levels of neuroticism have an increased risk of several types of mental disorder. Higher neuroticism has also been associated, less consistently, with increased risk of various physical health outcomes. We hypothesised that these associations may, in part, be due to shared genetic influences. We tested for pleiotropy between neuroticism and 17 mental and physical diseases or health traits using linkage disequilibrium regression and polygenic profile scoring. Genetic correlations were derived between neuroticism scores in 108 038 people in the UK Biobank and health-related measures from 14 large genome-wide association studies (GWASs). Summary information for the 17 GWASs was used to create polygenic risk scores for the health-related measures in the UK Biobank participants. Associations between the health-related polygenic scores and neuroticism were examined using regression, adjusting for age, sex, genotyping batch, genotyping array, assessment centre and population stratification. Genetic correlations were identified between neuroticism and anorexia nervosa (rg=0.17), major depressive disorder (rg=0.66) and schizophrenia (rg=0.21). Polygenic risk for several health-related measures were associated with neuroticism, in a positive direction in the case of bipolar disorder, borderline personality, major depressive disorder, negative affect, neuroticism (Genetics of Personality Consortium), schizophrenia, coronary artery disease, and smoking (β between 0.009-0.043), and in a negative direction in the case of body mass index (β=-0.0095). A high level of pleiotropy exists between neuroticism and some measures of mental and physical health, particularly major depressive disorder and schizophrenia.
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- C R Gale
- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK,Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK,MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, UK,MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton SO16 6YD, UK. E-mail:
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK,Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK,Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK,Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK,Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK,Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research and Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam, VU University Medical Center/GGZ inGeest, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biological Psychology, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK,Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK,Medical Genetics Section, University of Edinburgh Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine and MRC Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
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van Erp TGM, Hibar DP, Rasmussen JM, Glahn DC, Pearlson GD, Andreassen OA, Agartz I, Westlye LT, Haukvik UK, Dale AM, Melle I, Hartberg CB, Gruber O, Kraemer B, Zilles D, Donohoe G, Kelly S, McDonald C, Morris DW, Cannon DM, Corvin A, Machielsen MWJ, Koenders L, de Haan L, Veltman DJ, Satterthwaite TD, Wolf DH, Gur RC, Gur RE, Potkin SG, Mathalon DH, Mueller BA, Preda A, Macciardi F, Ehrlich S, Walton E, Hass J, Calhoun VD, Bockholt HJ, Sponheim SR, Shoemaker JM, van Haren NEM, Pol HEH, Ophoff RA, Kahn RS, Roiz-Santiañez R, Crespo-Facorro B, Wang L, Alpert KI, Jönsson EG, Dimitrova R, Bois C, Whalley HC, McIntosh AM, Lawrie SM, Hashimoto R, Thompson PM, Turner JA. Subcortical brain volume abnormalities in 2028 individuals with schizophrenia and 2540 healthy controls via the ENIGMA consortium. Mol Psychiatry 2016; 21:547-53. [PMID: 26033243 PMCID: PMC4668237 DOI: 10.1038/mp.2015.63] [Citation(s) in RCA: 596] [Impact Index Per Article: 74.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2014] [Revised: 03/05/2015] [Accepted: 03/18/2015] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
Abstract
The profile of brain structural abnormalities in schizophrenia is still not fully understood, despite decades of research using brain scans. To validate a prospective meta-analysis approach to analyzing multicenter neuroimaging data, we analyzed brain MRI scans from 2028 schizophrenia patients and 2540 healthy controls, assessed with standardized methods at 15 centers worldwide. We identified subcortical brain volumes that differentiated patients from controls, and ranked them according to their effect sizes. Compared with healthy controls, patients with schizophrenia had smaller hippocampus (Cohen's d=-0.46), amygdala (d=-0.31), thalamus (d=-0.31), accumbens (d=-0.25) and intracranial volumes (d=-0.12), as well as larger pallidum (d=0.21) and lateral ventricle volumes (d=0.37). Putamen and pallidum volume augmentations were positively associated with duration of illness and hippocampal deficits scaled with the proportion of unmedicated patients. Worldwide cooperative analyses of brain imaging data support a profile of subcortical abnormalities in schizophrenia, which is consistent with that based on traditional meta-analytic approaches. This first ENIGMA Schizophrenia Working Group study validates that collaborative data analyses can readily be used across brain phenotypes and disorders and encourages analysis and data sharing efforts to further our understanding of severe mental illness.
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- T G M van Erp
- Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
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- Imaging Genetics Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
- Olin Neuropsychiatric Research Center, Institute of Living, Hartford, CT, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
- Olin Neuropsychiatric Research Center, Institute of Living, Hartford, CT, USA
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- Norwegian Centre for Mental Disorders Research (NORMENT), KG Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- Norwegian Centre for Mental Disorders Research (NORMENT), KG Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Psychiatric Research, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Norwegian Centre for Mental Disorders Research (NORMENT), KG Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Norwegian Centre for Mental Disorders Research (NORMENT), KG Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- MMIL, Department of Radiology, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
- Department of Cognitive Science, Neurosciences and Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
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- Norwegian Centre for Mental Disorders Research (NORMENT), KG Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- Norwegian Centre for Mental Disorders Research (NORMENT), KG Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Psychiatric Research, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
- Center for Translational Research in Systems Neuroscience and Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Georg August University, Göttingen, Germany
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- Cognitive Genetics and Therapy Group, School of Psychology, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
- Neuropsychiatric Genetics research group, Department of Psychiatry and Trinity College Institute of Psychiatry, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
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- Imaging Genetics Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Neuropsychiatric Genetics research group, Department of Psychiatry and Trinity College Institute of Psychiatry, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
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- Clinical Neuroimaging Laboratory, College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
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- Cognitive Genetics and Therapy Group, School of Psychology, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
- Neuropsychiatric Genetics research group, Department of Psychiatry and Trinity College Institute of Psychiatry, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
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- Clinical Neuroimaging Laboratory, College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
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- Neuropsychiatric Genetics research group, Department of Psychiatry and Trinity College Institute of Psychiatry, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
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- Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- University Medical Center, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
- San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
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- Translational Developmental Neuroscience Section, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Technische Universität, Dresden, Germany
- Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- MGH/MIT/HMS Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, USA
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- Translational Developmental Neuroscience Section, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Technische Universität, Dresden, Germany
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- Translational Developmental Neuroscience Section, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Technische Universität, Dresden, Germany
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- Mind Research Network, Albuquerque, NM, USA
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA
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- Mind Research Network, Albuquerque, NM, USA
- Advanced Biomedical Informatics Group, LLC, Iowa City, IA, USA
- The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
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- Minneapolis VA Healthcare System & Department of Psychiatry, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, MN, USA
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- Brain Center Rudolf Magnus, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Brain Center Rudolf Magnus, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Brain Center Rudolf Magnus, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Brain Center Rudolf Magnus, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla, School of Medicine, University of Cantabria-IDIVAL, Santander, Spain
- CIBERSAM, Centro Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla, School of Medicine, University of Cantabria-IDIVAL, Santander, Spain
- CIBERSAM, Centro Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
- Department of Radiology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
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- Norwegian Centre for Mental Disorders Research (NORMENT), KG Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh Medical School, Edinburgh, UK
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh Medical School, Edinburgh, UK
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh Medical School, Edinburgh, UK
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh Medical School, Edinburgh, UK
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh Medical School, Edinburgh, UK
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- Molecular Research Center for Children's Mental Development, United Graduate School of Child Development, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
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- Imaging Genetics Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Mind Research Network, Albuquerque, NM, USA
- Departments of Psychology and Neuroscience, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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van Erp TGM, Hibar DP, Rasmussen JM, Glahn DC, Pearlson GD, Andreassen OA, Agartz I, Westlye LT, Haukvik UK, Dale AM, Melle I, Hartberg CB, Gruber O, Kraemer B, Zilles D, Donohoe G, Kelly S, McDonald C, Morris DW, Cannon DM, Corvin A, Machielsen MWJ, Koenders L, de Haan L, Veltman DJ, Satterthwaite TD, Wolf DH, Gur RC, Gur RE, Potkin SG, Mathalon DH, Mueller BA, Preda A, Macciardi F, Ehrlich S, Walton E, Hass J, Calhoun VD, Bockholt HJ, Sponheim SR, Shoemaker JM, van Haren NEM, Pol HEH, Ophoff RA, Kahn RS, Roiz-Santiañez R, Crespo-Facorro B, Wang L, Alpert KI, Jönsson EG, Dimitrova R, Bois C, Whalley HC, McIntosh AM, Lawrie SM, Hashimoto R, Thompson PM. Subcortical brain volume abnormalities in 2028 individuals with schizophrenia and 2540 healthy controls via the ENIGMA consortium. Mol Psychiatry 2016; 21:585. [PMID: 26283641 PMCID: PMC5751698 DOI: 10.1038/mp.2015.118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 181] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Clarke TK, Lupton MK, Fernandez-Pujals AM, Starr J, Davies G, Cox S, Pattie A, Liewald DC, Hall LS, MacIntyre DJ, Smith BH, Hocking LJ, Padmanabhan S, Thomson PA, Hayward C, Hansell NK, Montgomery GW, Medland SE, Martin NG, Wright MJ, Porteous DJ, Deary IJ, McIntosh AM. Common polygenic risk for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is associated with cognitive ability in the general population. Mol Psychiatry 2016; 21:419-25. [PMID: 25754080 PMCID: PMC4759203 DOI: 10.1038/mp.2015.12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2014] [Revised: 11/25/2014] [Accepted: 12/19/2014] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
Abstract
Cognitive impairment is common among individuals diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). It has been suggested that some aspects of intelligence are preserved or even superior in people with ASD compared with controls, but consistent evidence is lacking. Few studies have examined the genetic overlap between cognitive ability and ASD/ADHD. The aim of this study was to examine the polygenic overlap between ASD/ADHD and cognitive ability in individuals from the general population. Polygenic risk for ADHD and ASD was calculated from genome-wide association studies of ASD and ADHD conducted by the Psychiatric Genetics Consortium. Risk scores were created in three independent cohorts: Generation Scotland Scottish Family Health Study (GS:SFHS) (n=9863), the Lothian Birth Cohorts 1936 and 1921 (n=1522), and the Brisbane Adolescent Twin Sample (BATS) (n=921). We report that polygenic risk for ASD is positively correlated with general cognitive ability (beta=0.07, P=6 × 10(-7), r(2)=0.003), logical memory and verbal intelligence in GS:SFHS. This was replicated in BATS as a positive association with full-scale intelligent quotient (IQ) (beta=0.07, P=0.03, r(2)=0.005). We did not find consistent evidence that polygenic risk for ADHD was associated with cognitive function; however, a negative correlation with IQ at age 11 years (beta=-0.08, Z=-3.3, P=0.001) was observed in the Lothian Birth Cohorts. These findings are in individuals from the general population, suggesting that the relationship between genetic risk for ASD and intelligence is partly independent of clinical state. These data suggest that common genetic variation relevant for ASD influences general cognitive ability.
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- T-K Clarke
- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK,Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Edinburgh EH10 5HF, UK. E-mail:
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- QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Division of Applied Health Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
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- Division of Applied Health Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
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- Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK,Division of Applied Health Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK,Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK,Medical Genetics Section, Molecular Medicine Centre, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Medical Genetics Section, Molecular Medicine Centre, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK,MRC Human Genetics, MRC IGMM, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
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- QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK,Division of Applied Health Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK,Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK,Medical Genetics Section, Molecular Medicine Centre, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK,MRC Human Genetics, MRC IGMM, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK,Centre for Genomics and Experimental Medicine, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK,Division of Applied Health Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK,Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK,Medical Genetics Section, Molecular Medicine Centre, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK,MRC Human Genetics, MRC IGMM, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK,Centre for Genomics and Experimental Medicine, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK,Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK,Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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Barker V, Bois C, Johnstone EC, Owens DGC, Whalley HC, McIntosh AM, Lawrie SM. Childhood adversity and cortical thickness and surface area in a population at familial high risk of schizophrenia. Psychol Med 2016; 46:891-896. [PMID: 26654172 DOI: 10.1017/s0033291715002585] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND There is now a well-established link between childhood adversity (CA) and schizophrenia. Similar structural abnormalities to those found in schizophrenia including alterations in grey-matter volume have also been shown in those who experience CA. METHOD We examined whether global estimates of cortical thickness or surface area were altered in those familial high-risk subjects who had been referred to a social worker or the Children's Panel compared to those who had not. RESULTS We found that the cortical surface area of those who were referred to the Children's Panel was significantly smaller than those who had not been referred, but cortical thickness was not significantly altered. There was also an effect of social work referral on cortical surface area but not on thickness. CONCLUSIONS Cortical surface area increases post-natally more than cortical thickness. Our findings suggest that CA can influence structural changes in the brain and it is likely to have a greater impact on cortical surface area than on cortical thickness.
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- V Barker
- Division of Psychiatry,Centre for Brain Sciences,School of Clinical Sciences,University of Edinburgh,Royal Edinburgh Hospital,Morningside Park,Edinburgh,UK
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- Division of Psychiatry,Centre for Brain Sciences,School of Clinical Sciences,University of Edinburgh,Royal Edinburgh Hospital,Morningside Park,Edinburgh,UK
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- Division of Psychiatry,Centre for Brain Sciences,School of Clinical Sciences,University of Edinburgh,Royal Edinburgh Hospital,Morningside Park,Edinburgh,UK
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- Division of Psychiatry,Centre for Brain Sciences,School of Clinical Sciences,University of Edinburgh,Royal Edinburgh Hospital,Morningside Park,Edinburgh,UK
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- Division of Psychiatry,Centre for Brain Sciences,School of Clinical Sciences,University of Edinburgh,Royal Edinburgh Hospital,Morningside Park,Edinburgh,UK
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- Division of Psychiatry,Centre for Brain Sciences,School of Clinical Sciences,University of Edinburgh,Royal Edinburgh Hospital,Morningside Park,Edinburgh,UK
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- Division of Psychiatry,Centre for Brain Sciences,School of Clinical Sciences,University of Edinburgh,Royal Edinburgh Hospital,Morningside Park,Edinburgh,UK
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Whalley HC, Sussmann JE, Romaniuk L, Stewart T, Kielty S, Lawrie SM, Hall J, McIntosh AM. Dysfunction of emotional brain systems in individuals at high risk of mood disorder with depression and predictive features prior to illness. Psychol Med 2015; 45:1207-1218. [PMID: 25229638 DOI: 10.1017/s0033291714002256] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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BACKGROUND Abnormalities of emotion-related brain circuitry, including cortico-thalamic-limbic regions underpin core symptoms of bipolar disorder (BD) and major depressive disorder (MDD). It is unclear whether these abnormalities relate to symptoms of the disorder, are present in unaffected relatives, or whether they can predict future illness. METHOD The Bipolar Family Study (BFS) is a prospective longitudinal study that has examined individuals at familial risk of mood disorder and healthy controls on three occasions, 2 years apart. The current study concerns imaging data from the second assessment; 51 controls and 81 high-risk (HR) individuals performing an emotional memory task. The latter group was divided into 61 HR individuals who were well, and 20 who met diagnostic criteria for MDD. At the time of the third assessment a further 11 HR individuals (from the Well group) had developed MDD. The current analyses focused on (i) differences between groups based on diagnostic status at the time of the scan, and (ii) predictors of future illness, comparing the 11 HR individuals who became unwell after the second scanning assessment to those who remained well. RESULTS All groups demonstrated typical emotional modulation of memory and associated brain activations. For analysis (i) the HR MDD group demonstrated increased thalamic activation v. HR Well. (ii) HR Well individuals who subsequently became ill showed increased activation of thalamus, insula and anterior cingulate compared to those who remained well. CONCLUSIONS These findings suggest evidence for specific changes related to the presence of illness and evidence that changes in brain function in cortico-thalamic-limbic regions precede clinical illness.
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- H C Whalley
- Division of Psychiatry,University of Edinburgh,Edinburgh,UK
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- Division of Psychiatry,University of Edinburgh,Edinburgh,UK
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- Division of Psychiatry,University of Edinburgh,Edinburgh,UK
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- Division of Psychiatry,University of Edinburgh,Edinburgh,UK
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- Division of Psychiatry,University of Edinburgh,Edinburgh,UK
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- Division of Psychiatry,University of Edinburgh,Edinburgh,UK
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- Division of Psychiatry,University of Edinburgh,Edinburgh,UK
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- Division of Psychiatry,University of Edinburgh,Edinburgh,UK
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Bois C, Whalley HC, McIntosh AM, Lawrie SM. Structural magnetic resonance imaging markers of susceptibility and transition to schizophrenia: a review of familial and clinical high risk population studies. J Psychopharmacol 2015; 29:144-54. [PMID: 25049260 DOI: 10.1177/0269881114541015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
Abstract
There is a growing consensus that a symptomatology as complex and heterogeneous as schizophrenia is likely to be produced by widespread perturbations of brain structure, as opposed to isolated deficits in specific brain regions. Structural brain-imaging studies have shown that several features of the brain, such as grey matter, white matter integrity and the morphology of the cortex differ in individuals at high risk of the disorder compared to controls, but to a lesser extent than in patients, suggesting that structural abnormalities may form markers of vulnerability to the disorder. Research has had some success in delineating abnormalities specific to those individuals that transition to psychosis, compared to those at high risk that do not, suggesting that a general risk for the disorder can be distinguished from alterations specific to frank psychosis. In this paper, we review cross-sectional and longitudinal studies of individuals at familial or clinical high risk of the disorder. We conclude that the search for reliable markers of schizophrenia is likely to be enhanced by methods which amalgamate structural neuroimaging data into a coherent framework that takes into account the widespread distribution of brain alterations, and relates this to leading hypotheses of schizophrenia.
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- C Bois
- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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Hu X, Zhang B, Liu W, Paciga S, He W, Lanz TA, Kleiman R, Dougherty B, Hall SK, McIntosh AM, Lawrie SM, Power A, John SL, Blackwood D, St Clair D, Brandon NJ. A survey of rare coding variants in candidate genes in schizophrenia by deep sequencing. Mol Psychiatry 2014; 19:857-8. [PMID: 24126932 PMCID: PMC4113932 DOI: 10.1038/mp.2013.131] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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- X Hu
- PharmaTherapeutics Precision Medicine, Pfizer Inc., Groton, CT, USA
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- Research CoE, Groton, Pfizer Inc., Groton, CT, USA
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- Research Statistics, Neuroscience, Pfizer Inc., Groton, CT, USA
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- PharmaTherapeutics Precision Medicine, Pfizer Inc., Groton, CT, USA
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- Research CoE, Groton, Pfizer Inc., Groton, CT, USA
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- Neuroscience Research Unit, Pfizer Inc., Groton, CT, USA
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- Neuroscience Research Unit, Pfizer Inc., Groton, CT, USA
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- PharmaTherapeutics Precision Medicine, Pfizer Inc., Groton, CT, USA
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- PharmaTherapeutics Precision Medicine, Pfizer Inc., Groton, CT, USA
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- PharmaTherapeutics Precision Medicine, Pfizer Inc., Groton, CT, USA
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- PharmaTherapeutics Precision Medicine, Pfizer Inc., Groton, CT, USA,E-mail:
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Department of applied medicine, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
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- Neuroscience Research Unit, Pfizer Inc., Groton, CT, USA
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Thomson PA, Parla JS, McRae AF, Kramer M, Ramakrishnan K, Yao J, Soares DC, McCarthy S, Morris SW, Cardone L, Cass S, Ghiban E, Hennah W, Evans KL, Rebolini D, Millar JK, Harris SE, Starr JM, MacIntyre DJ, McIntosh AM, Watson JD, Deary IJ, Visscher PM, Blackwood DH, McCombie WR, Porteous DJ. 708 Common and 2010 rare DISC1 locus variants identified in 1542 subjects: analysis for association with psychiatric disorder and cognitive traits. Mol Psychiatry 2014; 19:668-75. [PMID: 23732877 PMCID: PMC4031635 DOI: 10.1038/mp.2013.68] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2012] [Revised: 04/22/2013] [Accepted: 04/23/2013] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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A balanced t(1;11) translocation that transects the Disrupted in schizophrenia 1 (DISC1) gene shows genome-wide significant linkage for schizophrenia and recurrent major depressive disorder (rMDD) in a single large Scottish family, but genome-wide and exome sequencing-based association studies have not supported a role for DISC1 in psychiatric illness. To explore DISC1 in more detail, we sequenced 528 kb of the DISC1 locus in 653 cases and 889 controls. We report 2718 validated single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of which 2010 have a minor allele frequency of <1%. Only 38% of these variants are reported in the 1000 Genomes Project European subset. This suggests that many DISC1 SNPs remain undiscovered and are essentially private. Rare coding variants identified exclusively in patients were found in likely functional protein domains. Significant region-wide association was observed between rs16856199 and rMDD (P=0.026, unadjusted P=6.3 × 10(-5), OR=3.48). This was not replicated in additional recurrent major depression samples (replication P=0.11). Combined analysis of both the original and replication set supported the original association (P=0.0058, OR=1.46). Evidence for segregation of this variant with disease in families was limited to those of rMDD individuals referred from primary care. Burden analysis for coding and non-coding variants gave nominal associations with diagnosis and measures of mood and cognition. Together, these observations are likely to generalise to other candidate genes for major mental illness and may thus provide guidelines for the design of future studies.
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- P A Thomson
- Medical Genetics Section, University of Edinburgh Molecular Medicine Centre, MRC Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, Edinburgh, UK
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- Stanley Institute for Cognitive Genomics, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA
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- University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, The University of Queensland, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Stanley Institute for Cognitive Genomics, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA
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- Medical Genetics Section, University of Edinburgh Molecular Medicine Centre, MRC Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
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- Stanley Institute for Cognitive Genomics, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA
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- Medical Genetics Section, University of Edinburgh Molecular Medicine Centre, MRC Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
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- Stanley Institute for Cognitive Genomics, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA
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- Medical Genetics Section, University of Edinburgh Molecular Medicine Centre, MRC Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
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- Stanley Institute for Cognitive Genomics, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA
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- Medical Genetics Section, University of Edinburgh Molecular Medicine Centre, MRC Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
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- Stanley Institute for Cognitive Genomics, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA
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- Medical Genetics Section, University of Edinburgh Molecular Medicine Centre, MRC Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
- Institute for Molecular Medicine, Finland FIMM, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Medical Genetics Section, University of Edinburgh Molecular Medicine Centre, MRC Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, Edinburgh, UK
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- Stanley Institute for Cognitive Genomics, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA
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- Medical Genetics Section, University of Edinburgh Molecular Medicine Centre, MRC Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
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- Medical Genetics Section, University of Edinburgh Molecular Medicine Centre, MRC Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, Edinburgh, UK
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, Edinburgh, UK
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
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- Medical Genetics Section, University of Edinburgh Molecular Medicine Centre, MRC Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, Edinburgh, UK
- Stanley Institute for Cognitive Genomics, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA
- University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, The University of Queensland, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
- Institute for Molecular Medicine, Finland FIMM, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
- Generation Scotland, A Collaboration between the University Medical Schools and NHS, Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow, UK
- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
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- Stanley Institute for Cognitive Genomics, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, Edinburgh, UK
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- University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, The University of Queensland, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
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- Stanley Institute for Cognitive Genomics, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA
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- Medical Genetics Section, University of Edinburgh Molecular Medicine Centre, MRC Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, Edinburgh, UK
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Welch KA, Moorhead TW, McIntosh AM, Owens DGC, Johnstone EC, Lawrie SM. Tensor-based morphometry of cannabis use on brain structure in individuals at elevated genetic risk of schizophrenia. Psychol Med 2013; 43:2087-2096. [PMID: 23190458 DOI: 10.1017/s0033291712002668] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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BACKGROUND Schizophrenia is associated with various brain structural abnormalities, including reduced volume of the hippocampi, prefrontal lobes and thalami. Cannabis use increases the risk of schizophrenia but reports of brain structural abnormalities in the cannabis-using population have not been consistent. We used automated image analysis to compare brain structural changes over time in people at elevated risk of schizophrenia for familial reasons who did and did not use cannabis. METHOD Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans were obtained from subjects at high familial risk of schizophrenia at entry to the Edinburgh High Risk Study (EHRS) and approximately 2 years later. Differential grey matter (GM) loss in those exposed (n=23) and not exposed to cannabis (n=32) in the intervening period was compared using tensor-based morphometry (TBM). RESULTS Cannabis exposure was associated with significantly greater loss of right anterior hippocampal (pcorrected=0.029, t=3.88) and left superior frontal lobe GM (pcorrected=0.026, t=4.68). The former finding remained significant even after the exclusion of individuals who had used other drugs during the inter-scan interval. CONCLUSIONS Using an automated analysis of longitudinal data, we demonstrate an association between cannabis use and GM loss in currently well people at familial risk of developing schizophrenia. This observation may be important in understanding the link between cannabis exposure and the subsequent development of schizophrenia.
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- K A Welch
- Division of Psychiatry, School of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, UK.
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McIntosh AM, Bastin ME, Luciano M, Maniega SM, Del C Valdés Hernández M, Royle NA, Hall J, Murray C, Lawrie SM, Starr JM, Wardlaw JM, Deary IJ. Neuroticism, depressive symptoms and white-matter integrity in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936. Psychol Med 2013; 43:1197-1206. [PMID: 22785087 DOI: 10.1017/s003329171200150x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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BACKGROUND Clinical depression is associated with reductions in white-matter integrity in several long tracts of the brain. The extent to which these findings are localized or related to depressive symptoms or personality traits linked to disease risk remains unclear. Method Members of the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936 (LBC936) were assessed in two waves at mean ages of 70 and 73 years. At wave 1, they underwent assessments of depressive symptoms and the personality traits of neuroticism and extraversion. Brain diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data were obtained at the second wave and mood assessments were repeated. We tested whether depressive symptoms were related to reduced white-matter tract fractional anisotropy (FA), a measure of integrity, and then examined whether high neuroticism or low extraversion mediated this relationship. RESULTS Six hundred and sixty-eight participants provided useable data. Bilateral uncinate fasciculus FA was significantly negatively associated with depressive symptoms at both waves (standardized β=0.12-0.16). Higher neuroticism and lower extraversion were also significantly associated with lower uncinate FA bilaterally (standardized β=0.09-0.15) and significantly mediated the relationship between FA and depressive symptoms. CONCLUSIONS Trait liability to depression and depressive symptoms are associated with reduced structural connectivity in tracts connecting the prefrontal cortex with the amygdala and anterior temporal cortex. These effects suggest that frontotemporal disconnection is linked to the etiology of depression, in part through personality trait differences.
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- A M McIntosh
- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, UK.
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Hall J, Whalley HC, McKirdy JW, Sprengelmeyer R, Santos IM, Donaldson DI, McGonigle DJ, Young AW, McIntosh AM, Johnstone EC, Lawrie SM. A common neural system mediating two different forms of social judgement. Psychol Med 2010; 40:1183-1192. [PMID: 19811702 DOI: 10.1017/s0033291709991395] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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BACKGROUND A wide range of neuropsychiatric conditions, including schizophrenia and autistic spectrum disorder (ASD), are associated with impairments in social function. Previous studies have shown that individuals with schizophrenia and ASD have deficits in making a wide range of social judgements from faces, including decisions related to threat (such as judgements of approachability) and decisions not related to physical threat (such as judgements of intelligence). We have investigated healthy control participants to see whether there is a common neural system activated during such social decisions, on the basis that deficits in this system may contribute to the impairments seen in these disorders. METHOD We investigated the neural basis of social decision making during judgements of approachability and intelligence from faces in 24 healthy participants using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). We used conjunction analysis to identify common brain regions activated during both tasks. RESULTS Activation of the amygdala, medial prefrontal cortex, inferior prefrontal cortex and cerebellum was seen during performance of both social tasks, compared to simple gender judgements from the same stimuli. Task-specific activations were present in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in the intelligence task and in the inferior and middle temporal cortex in the approachability task. CONCLUSIONS The present study identified a common network of brain regions activated during the performance of two different forms of social judgement from faces. Dysfunction of this network is likely to contribute to the broad-ranging deficits in social function seen in psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and ASD.
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- J Hall
- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH10 5HF, UK.
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Hall J, Whalley HC, Marwick K, McKirdy J, Sussmann J, Romaniuk L, Johnstone EC, Wan HI, McIntosh AM, Lawrie SM. Hippocampal function in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Psychol Med 2010; 40:761-770. [PMID: 19732478 DOI: 10.1017/s0033291709991000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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BACKGROUND The hippocampus plays a central role in memory formation. There is considerable evidence of abnormalities in hippocampal structure and function in schizophrenia, which may differentiate it from bipolar disorder. However, no previous studies have compared hippocampal activation in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder directly. METHOD Fifteen patients with schizophrenia, 14 patients with bipolar disorder and 14 healthy comparison subjects took part in the study. Subjects performed a face-name pair memory task during functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Differences in blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) activity were determined during encoding and retrieval of the face-name pairs. RESULTS The patient groups showed significant differences in hippocampal and prefrontal cortex (PFC) activation during face-name pair learning. During encoding, patients with schizophrenia showed decreased anterior hippocampal activation relative to subjects with bipolar disorder, whereas patients with bipolar disorder showed decreased dorsal PFC activation relative to patients with schizophrenia. During retrieval, patients with schizophrenia showed greater activation of the dorsal PFC than patients with bipolar disorder. Patients with schizophrenia also differed from healthy control subjects in the activation of several brain regions, showing impaired superior temporal cortex activation during encoding and greater dorsal PFC activation during retrieval. These effects were evident despite matched task performance. CONCLUSIONS Patients with schizophrenia showed deficits in hippocampal activation during a memory task relative to patients with bipolar disorder. The disorders were further distinguished by differences in PFC activation. The results demonstrate that these disorders can distinguished at a group level using non-invasive neuroimaging.
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- J Hall
- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Edinburgh, UK.
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BACKGROUND Neuropsychological deficits in schizophrenia patients and their relatives have been thought to represent possible genetic vulnerability markers or endophenotypes of the disorder. The present study describes results from the Edinburgh High Risk Study of computerized testing using the Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery (CANTAB) on a group at genetic high risk (HR) of schizophrenia and a control group. METHOD A total of 97 HR and 25 control participants were assessed on three tests from the CANTAB - spatial span, spatial working memory, and Stockings of Cambridge. Analyses of covariance were used to compare the HR and control groups on the main outcome measures whilst controlling for intelligence quotient (IQ). Subsequent analysis examined the effects of the presence of symptoms on group differences. RESULTS HR participants had significantly reduced spatial memory capacity [F(1, 118)=4.06, p=0.046] and significantly reduced planning processing speed [F(1, 116)=4.16, p=0.044] compared with controls even after controlling for general intelligence (IQ). Although HR individuals made more errors and showed poorer problem-solving and strategy performance compared with controls, these differences were not significant after controlling for IQ. Subsequent analysis indicated that the presence or absence of psychotic symptoms in the HR group did not influence these specific cognitive deficits. CONCLUSIONS Spatial memory capacity and planning processing speed may represent cognitive endophenotypes characterising the genetic predisposition to schizophrenia in this HR group.
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Arnone D, Cavanagh J, Gerber D, Lawrie SM, Ebmeier KP, McIntosh AM. Magnetic resonance imaging studies in bipolar disorder and schizophrenia: meta-analysis. Br J Psychiatry 2009; 195:194-201. [PMID: 19721106 DOI: 10.1192/bjp.bp.108.059717] [Citation(s) in RCA: 310] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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BACKGROUND Several magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies have identified structural abnormalities in association with bipolar disorder. The literature is, however, heterogeneous and there is remaining uncertainty about which brain areas are pivotal to the pathogenesis of the condition. AIMS To identify, appraise and summarise volumetric MRI studies of brain regions comparing bipolar disorder with an unrelated control group and individuals with schizophrenia. METHOD A systematic review and random-effects meta-analysis was carried out to identify key areas of structural abnormality in bipolar disorder and whether the pattern of affected areas separated bipolar disorder from schizophrenia. Significant heterogeneity was explored using meta-regression. RESULTS Participants with bipolar disorder are characterised by whole brain and prefrontal lobe volume reductions, and also by increases in the volume of the globus pallidus and lateral ventricles. In comparison with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder is associated with smaller lateral ventricular volume and enlarged amygdala volume. Heterogeneity was widespread and could be partly explained by clinical variables and year of publication, but generally not by differences in image acquisition. CONCLUSIONS There appear to be robust changes in brain volume in bipolar disorder compared with healthy volunteers, although most changes do not seem to be diagnostically specific. Age and duration of illness appear to be key issues in determining the magnitude of observed effect sizes.
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- Danilo Arnone
- Neuroscience and Psychiatry Unit, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PT, UK.
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BACKGROUND Bipolar disorder and schizophrenia have both been associated with deficits in extra-dimensional set shifting (EDS). Deficits in reversal learning (RL) have also been shown in schizophrenia but not in bipolar disorder. This study sought to assess the specificity of these findings in a direct comparison of clinically stable patients with each disorder. METHOD The intra-dimensional/extra-dimensional (IDED) set-shifting task, part of the Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery (CANTAB), was administered to 30 patients with schizophrenia, 47 with bipolar disorder and a group of 44 unaffected controls. EDS and RL errors were compared between the groups and related to measures of current and past psychiatric symptoms and medication. RESULTS Both groups of patients with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder made more EDS and RL errors than controls. Neither measure separated the two disorders, even when the analysis was restricted to euthymic patients. No relationship was found with prescribed medication. CONCLUSIONS Patients with bipolar disorder or schizophrenia show common deficits in EDS and RL. These deficits do not seem to be attributable to current symptoms and are consistent with disrupted networks involving the ventral prefrontal cortex.
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- J McKirdy
- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
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Sprooten E, Lymer GKS, Maniega SM, McKirdy J, Clayden JD, Bastin ME, Porteous D, Johnstone EC, Lawrie SM, Hall J, McIntosh AM. The Relationship of Anterior Thalamic Radiation Integrity to Psychosis Risk Associated Neuregulin-1 Variants. Neuroimage 2009. [DOI: 10.1016/s1053-8119(09)71219-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022] Open
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Whalley HC, Gountouna VE, Hall J, McIntosh AM, Simonotto E, Job DE, Owens DGC, Johnstone EC, Lawrie SM. fMRI changes over time and reproducibility in unmedicated subjects at high genetic risk of schizophrenia. Psychol Med 2009; 39:1189-1199. [PMID: 19105855 DOI: 10.1017/s0033291708004923] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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BACKGROUND Functional brain abnormalities have been repeatedly demonstrated in schizophrenia but there is little data concerning their progression. For such studies to have credibility it is first important to establish the reproducibility of functional imaging techniques. The current study aimed to examine these factors in healthy controls and in unmedicated subjects at high genetic risk of the disorder: (i) to examine the reproducibility of task-related activation patterns, (ii) to determine if there were any progressive functional changes in high-risk subjects versus controls reflecting inheritance of the schizophrenic trait, and (iii) to examine changes over time in relation to fluctuating positive psychotic symptoms (i.e. state effects). METHOD Subjects were scanned performing the Hayling sentence completion test on two occasions 18 months apart. Changes in activation were examined in controls and high-risk subjects (n=16, n=63). Reproducibility was assessed for controls and high-risk subjects who remained asymptomatic at both time points (n=16, n=32). RESULTS Intra-class correlation values indicated good agreement between scanning sessions. No significant differences over time were seen between the high-risk and control group; however, comparison of high-risk subjects who developed symptoms versus those who remained asymptomatic revealed activation increases in the left middle temporal gyrus (p=0.026). CONCLUSIONS The current results suggest that functional changes over time occur in the lateral temporal cortex as high genetic risk subjects become symptomatic, further, they indicate the usefulness of functional imaging tools for investigating progressive changes associated with state and trait effects in schizophrenia.
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- H C Whalley
- Division of Psychiatry, School of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
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Sprooten E, Romaniuk L, Giles S, Job DE, Mukherjee P, Whalley HC, Lawrie SM, Johnstone EC, van de Ven VG, McIntosh AM. Fronto-temporal Connectivity in Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia Related to Auditory Verbal Hallucinations. Neuroimage 2009. [DOI: 10.1016/s1053-8119(09)71324-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Memory impairment is being recognized increasingly as an important feature of the neuropsychology of schizophrenia. Dysfunction of working memory, a system for the short-term storage and manipulation of information, may relate to a number of core symptoms of schizophrenia. Many studies have examined working memory function in schizophrenia but a clear understanding of the nature and extent of any deficit has been elusive. METHOD A systematic review and meta-analysis of studies comparing working memory function in subjects with schizophrenia and healthy controls was performed. Following a comprehensive literature search, meta-analyses were conducted on 36 measures of phonological, visuospatial and central executive working memory functioning, encompassing 441 separate results from 187 different studies. RESULTS Statistically significant effect sizes were found for all working memory measures, indicating deficits in schizophrenia groups. Some of these were robust findings in the absence of evidence of significant heterogeneity or publication bias. Meta-regression analyses showed that the working memory deficit was not simply explained by discrepancies in current IQ between schizophrenia and control groups. CONCLUSIONS Large deficits in working memory were demonstrated in schizophrenia groups across all three working memory domains. There were, however, no clear differences across subdomains or between particular working memory tasks. There was substantial heterogeneity across results that could only be partly explained.
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Whalley HC, Pickard BS, McIntosh AM, Zuliani R, Johnstone EC, Blackwood DHR, Lawrie SM, Muir WJ, Hall J. A GRIK4 variant conferring protection against bipolar disorder modulates hippocampal function. Mol Psychiatry 2009; 14:467-8. [PMID: 19384319 DOI: 10.1038/mp.2009.7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Whalley HC, Pickard BS, McIntosh AM, Zuliani R, Johnstone EC, Blackwood DHR, Lawrie SM, Muir WJ, Hall J. Modulation of hippocampal activation by genetic variation in the GRIK4 gene. Mol Psychiatry 2009; 14:465. [PMID: 19384317 DOI: 10.1038/mp.2009.31] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- H C Whalley
- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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Sprooten E, Lymer GKS, Muñoz Maniega S, McKirdy J, Clayden JD, Bastin ME, Porteous D, Johnstone EC, Lawrie SM, Hall J, McIntosh AM. The relationship of anterior thalamic radiation integrity to psychosis risk associated neuregulin-1 variants. Mol Psychiatry 2009; 14:237-8, 233. [PMID: 19229203 DOI: 10.1038/mp.2008.136] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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McIntosh AM, Moorhead TWJ, McKirdy J, Hall J, Sussmann JED, Stanfield AC, Harris JM, Johnstone EC, Lawrie SM. Prefrontal gyral folding and its cognitive correlates in bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. Acta Psychiatr Scand 2009; 119:192-8. [PMID: 19032702 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0447.2008.01286.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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OBJECTIVE We sought to address whether dorsal or ventral prefrontal gyrification is abnormal in bipolar disorder and to determine its diagnostic specificity and cognitive associations. METHOD Forty-two out-patients with bipolar disorder, 28 with schizophrenia and 37 controls underwent magnetic resonance imaging. All subjects also underwent IQ and executive assessments using tasks whose performance has been localized to the ventral or dorsal prefrontal cortex. Cortical folding was quantified using the gyrification index (GI) and related to the cognitive measures. RESULTS Patients with bipolar disorder showed reduced prefrontal gyrification compared with controls but did not differ from patients with schizophrenia. Neither ventral nor dorsal GI was preferentially affected in either disorder. Current IQ was positively and significantly correlated with GI. CONCLUSION Patients with bipolar disorder and patients with schizophrenia have reduced prefrontal gyrification affecting both ventral and dorsal subregions. These reductions were significantly associated with cognitive impairments occurring in both disorders.
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Kennedy Tower, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Edinburgh EH105HF, UK.
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Muñoz Maniega S, Lymer GKS, Bastin ME, Marjoram D, Job DE, Moorhead TWJ, Owens DG, Johnstone EC, McIntosh AM, Lawrie SM. A diffusion tensor MRI study of white matter integrity in subjects at high genetic risk of schizophrenia. Schizophr Res 2008; 106:132-9. [PMID: 18849149 DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2008.09.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2008] [Revised: 08/13/2008] [Accepted: 09/06/2008] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) has previously shown compromised white matter integrity in frontotemporal white matter fibers in patients with schizophrenia, as indicated by reduced fractional anisotropy (FA). In the present study we investigated whether reduced white matter FA is also present in relatives of individuals with schizophrenia who are at high risk (HR) for genetic reasons. Twenty-two HR subjects, 31 patients with schizophrenia and 51 control subjects underwent DTI. We compared FA between the three groups in the cingulum cingulate gyri, the uncinate and the arcuate fasciculi and the anterior limb of the internal capsules (ALIC). A voxel-based analysis showed lower FA in patients with schizophrenia compared to controls in left and right uncinate (p<0.03), the left arcuate (p<0.03) and left and right ALIC (p<0.01). Using an automatic region-of-interest analysis, less sensitive to potential misregistration errors, produced essentially the same results, as well as reduced FA of the ALIC in the HR group compared to controls (p<0.05). This study replicates previous findings showing lower FA in frontotemporal white matter fibers of schizophrenia patients. We also found reduced FA in the ALIC of both patients and subjects at high risk of schizophrenia when compared to controls. This may be a possible indicator of the higher vulnerability of relatives to develop the disorder.
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Affiliation(s)
- S Muñoz Maniega
- Division of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
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