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Item Associations between Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors and Genetic Liability for Cognitive Performance, Depression, and Risk-Taking in a High-Risk Sample(Karger, 2021) Johnson, Emma C.; Aliev, Fazil; Meyers, Jacquelyn L.; Salvatore, Jessica E.; Tillman, Rebecca; Chang, Yoonhoo; Docherty, Anna R.; Bogdan, Ryan; Acion, Laura; Chan, Grace; Chorlian, David B.; Kamarajan, Chella; Kuperman, Samuel; Pandey, Ashwini; Plawecki, Martin H.; Schuckit, Marc; Tischfield, Jay; Edenberg, Howard J.; Bucholz, Kathleen K.; Nurnberger, John I.; Porjesz, Bernice; Hesselbrock, Victor; Dick, Danielle M.; Kramer, John R.; Agrawal, Arpana; Psychiatry, School of MedicineBackground: Suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STBs) and nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) behaviors are moderately heritable and may reflect an underlying predisposition to depression, impulsivity, and cognitive vulnerabilities to varying degrees. Objectives: We aimed to estimate the degrees of association between genetic liability to depression, impulsivity, and cognitive performance and STBs and NSSI in a high-risk sample. Methods: We used data on 7,482 individuals of European ancestry and 3,359 individuals of African ancestry from the Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism to examine the links between polygenic scores (PGSs) for depression, impulsivity/risk-taking, and cognitive performance with 3 self-reported indices of STBs (suicidal ideation, persistent suicidal ideation defined as ideation occurring on at least 7 consecutive days, and suicide attempt) and with NSSI. Results: The PGS for depression was significantly associated with all 4 primary self-harm measures, explaining 0.6-2.5% of the variance. The PGS for risk-taking behaviors was also associated with all 4 self-harm behaviors in baseline models, but was no longer associated after controlling for a lifetime measure of DSM-IV alcohol dependence and abuse symptom counts. Polygenic predisposition for cognitive performance was negatively associated with suicide attempts (q = 3.8e-4) but was not significantly associated with suicidal ideation nor NSSI. We did not find any significant associations in the African ancestry subset, likely due to smaller sample sizes. Conclusions: Our results encourage the study of STB as transdiagnostic outcomes that show genetic overlap with a range of risk factors.Item GWAS Meta-Analysis of Suicide Attempt: Identification of 12 Genome-Wide Significant Loci and Implication of Genetic Risks for Specific Health Factors(American Psychiatric Association, 2023) Docherty, Anna R.; Mullins, Niamh; Ashley-Koch, Allison E.; Qin, Xuejun; Coleman, Jonathan R. I.; Shabalin, Andrey; Kang, JooEun; Murnyak, Balasz; Wendt, Frank; Adams, Mark; Campos, Adrian I.; DiBlasi, Emily; Fullerton, Janice M.; Kranzler, Henry R.; Bakian, Amanda V.; Monson, Eric T.; Rentería, Miguel E.; Walss-Bass, Consuelo; Andreassen, Ole A.; Behera, Chittaranjan; Bulik, Cynthia M.; Edenberg, Howard J.; Kessler, Ronald C.; Mann, J. John; Nurnberger, John I., Jr.; Pistis, Giorgio; Streit, Fabian; Ursano, Robert J.; Polimanti, Renato; Dennis, Michelle; Garrett, Melanie; Hair, Lauren; Harvey, Philip; Hauser, Elizabeth R.; Hauser, Michael A.; Huffman, Jennifer; Jacobson, Daniel; Madduri, Ravi; McMahon, Benjamin; Oslin, David W.; Trafton, Jodie; Awasthi, Swapnil; Berrettini, Wade H.; Bohus, Martin; Chang, Xiao; Chen, Hsi-Chung; Chen, Wei J.; Christensen, Erik D.; Crow, Scott; Duriez, Philibert; Edwards, Alexis C.; Fernández-Aranda, Fernando; Galfalvy, Hanga; Gandal, Michael; Gorwood, Philip; Guo, Yiran; Hafferty, Jonathan D.; Hakonarson, Hakon; Halmi, Katherine A.; Hishimoto, Akitoyo; Jain, Sonia; Jamain, Stéphane; Jiménez-Murcia, Susana; Johnson, Craig; Kaplan, Allan S.; Kaye, Walter H.; Keel, Pamela K.; Kennedy, James L.; Kim, Minsoo; Klump, Kelly L.; Levey, Daniel F.; Li, Dong; Liao, Shih-Cheng; Lieb, Klaus; Lilenfeld, Lisa; Marshall, Christian R.; Mitchell, James E.; Okazaki, Satoshi; Otsuka, Ikuo; Pinto, Dalila; Powers, Abigail; Ramoz, Nicolas; Ripke, Stephan; Roepke, Stefan; Rozanov, Vsevolod; Scherer, Stephen W.; Schmahl, Christian; Sokolowski, Marcus; Starnawska, Anna; Strober, Michael; Su, Mei-Hsin; Thornton, Laura M.; Treasure, Janet; Ware, Erin B.; Watson, Hunna J.; Witt, Stephanie H.; Woodside, D. Blake; Yilmaz, Zeynep; Zillich, Lea; Adolfsson, Rolf; Agartz, Ingrid; Alda, Martin; Alfredsson, Lars; Appadurai, Vivek; Artigas, María Soler; Van der Auwera, Sandra; Azevedo, M. Helena; Bass, Nicholas; Bau, Claiton H. D.; Baune, Bernhard T.; Bellivier, Frank; Berger, Klaus; Biernacka, Joanna M.; Bigdeli, Tim B.; Binder, Elisabeth B.; Boehnke, Michael; Boks, Marco P.; Braff, David L.; Bryant, Richard; Budde, Monika; Byrne, Enda M.; Cahn, Wiepke; Castelao, Enrique; Cervilla, Jorge A.; Chaumette, Boris; Corvin, Aiden; Craddock, Nicholas; Djurovic, Srdjan; Foo, Jerome C.; Forstner, Andreas J.; Frye, Mark; Gatt, Justine M.; Giegling, Ina; Grabe, Hans J.; Green, Melissa J.; Grevet, Eugenio H.; Grigoroiu-Serbanescu, Maria; Gutierrez, Blanca; Guzman-Parra, Jose; Hamshere, Marian L.; Hartmann, Annette M.; Hauser, Joanna; Heilmann-Heimbach, Stefanie; Hoffmann, Per; Ising, Marcus; Jones, Ian; Jones, Lisa A.; Jonsson, Lina; Kahn, René S.; Kelsoe, John R.; Kendler, Kenneth S.; Kloiber, Stefan; Koenen, Karestan C.; Kogevinas, Manolis; Krebs, Marie-Odile; Landén, Mikael; Leboyer, Marion; Lee, Phil H.; Levinson, Douglas F.; Liao, Calwing; Lissowska, Jolanta; Mayoral, Fermin; McElroy, Susan L.; McGrath, Patrick; McGuffin, Peter; McQuillin, Andrew; Mehta, Divya; Melle, Ingrid; Mitchell, Philip B.; Molina, Esther; Morken, Gunnar; Nievergelt, Caroline; Nöthen, Markus M.; O'Donovan, Michael C.; Ophoff, Roel A.; Owen, Michael J.; Pato, Carlos; Pato, Michele T.; Penninx, Brenda W. J. H.; Potash, James B.; Power, Robert A.; Preisig, Martin; Quested, Digby; Ramos-Quiroga, Josep Antoni; Reif, Andreas; Ribasés, Marta; Richarte, Vanesa; Rietschel, Marcella; Rivera, Margarita; Roberts, Andrea; Roberts, Gloria; Rouleau, Guy A.; Rovaris, Diego L.; Sanders, Alan R.; Schofield, Peter R.; Schulze, Thomas G.; Scott, Laura J.; Serretti, Alessandro; Shi, Jianxin; Sirignano, Lea; Sklar, Pamela; Smeland, Olav B.; Smoller, Jordan W.; Sonuga-Barke, Edmund J. S.; Trzaskowski, Maciej; Tsuang, Ming T.; Turecki, Gustavo; Vilar-Ribó, Laura; Vincent, John B.; Völzke, Henry; Walters, James T. R.; Weickert, Cynthia Shannon; Weickert, Thomas W.; Weissman, Myrna M.; Williams, Leanne M.; Wray, Naomi R.; Zai, Clement C.; Agerbo, Esben; Børglum, Anders D.; Breen, Gerome; Demontis, Ditte; Erlangsen, Annette; Gelernter, Joel; Glatt, Stephen J.; Hougaard, David M.; Hwu, Hai-Gwo; Kuo, Po-Hsiu; Lewis, Cathryn M.; Li, Qingqin S.; Liu, Chih-Min; Martin, Nicholas G.; McIntosh, Andrew M.; Medland, Sarah E.; Mors, Ole; Nordentoft, Merete; Olsen, Catherine M.; Porteous, David; Smith, Daniel J.; Stahl, Eli A.; Stein, Murray B.; Wasserman, Danuta; Werge, Thomas; Whiteman, David C.; Willour, Virginia; VA Million Veteran Program (MVP); MVP Suicide Exemplar Workgroup; Suicide Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium; Major Depressive Disorder Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium; Bipolar Disorder Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium; Schizophrenia Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium; Eating Disorder Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium; German Borderline Genomics Consortium; Coon, Hilary; Beckham, Jean C.; Kimbrel, Nathan A.; Ruderfer, Douglas M.; Psychiatry, School of MedicineObjective: Suicidal behavior is heritable and is a major cause of death worldwide. Two large-scale genome-wide association studies (GWASs) recently discovered and cross-validated genome-wide significant (GWS) loci for suicide attempt (SA). The present study leveraged the genetic cohorts from both studies to conduct the largest GWAS meta-analysis of SA to date. Multi-ancestry and admixture-specific meta-analyses were conducted within groups of significant African, East Asian, and European ancestry admixtures. Methods: This study comprised 22 cohorts, including 43,871 SA cases and 915,025 ancestry-matched controls. Analytical methods across multi-ancestry and individual ancestry admixtures included inverse variance-weighted fixed-effects meta-analyses, followed by gene, gene-set, tissue-set, and drug-target enrichment, as well as summary-data-based Mendelian randomization with brain expression quantitative trait loci data, phenome-wide genetic correlation, and genetic causal proportion analyses. Results: Multi-ancestry and European ancestry admixture GWAS meta-analyses identified 12 risk loci at p values <5×10-8. These loci were mostly intergenic and implicated DRD2, SLC6A9, FURIN, NLGN1, SOX5, PDE4B, and CACNG2. The multi-ancestry SNP-based heritability estimate of SA was 5.7% on the liability scale (SE=0.003, p=5.7×10-80). Significant brain tissue gene expression and drug set enrichment were observed. There was shared genetic variation of SA with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, smoking, and risk tolerance after conditioning SA on both major depressive disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder. Genetic causal proportion analyses implicated shared genetic risk for specific health factors. Conclusions: This multi-ancestry analysis of suicide attempt identified several loci contributing to risk and establishes significant shared genetic covariation with clinical phenotypes. These findings provide insight into genetic factors associated with suicide attempt across ancestry admixture populations, in veteran and civilian populations, and in attempt versus death.Item Shared Genetic Risk between Eating Disorder and Substance Use-Related Phenotypes: Evidence from Genome-Wide Association Studies(Wiley, 2021) Munn-Chernoff, Melissa A.; Johnson, Emma C.; Chou, Yi-Ling; Coleman, Jonathan R.I.; Thornton, Laura M.; Walters, Raymond K.; Yilmaz, Zeynep; Baker, Jessica H.; Hübel, Christopher; Gordon, Scott; Medland, Sarah E.; Watson, Hunna J.; Gaspar, Héléna A.; Bryois, Julien; Hinney, Anke; Leppä, Virpi M.; Mattheisen, Manuel; Ripke, Stephan; Yao, Shuyang; Giusti-Rodríguez, Paola; Hanscombe, Ken B.; Adan, Roger A.H.; Alfredsson, Lars; Ando, Tetsuya; Andreassen, Ole A.; Berrettini, Wade H.; Boehm, Ilka; Boni, Claudette; Perica, Vesna Boraska; Buehren, Katharina; Burghardt, Roland; Cassina, Matgteo; Cichon, Sven; Clementi, Maurizio; Cone, Roger D.; Courtet, Philippe; Crow, Scott; Crowley, James J.; Danner, Unna N.; Davis, Oliver S.P.; de Zwaan, Martina; Dedoussis, George; Degortes, Daniela; DeSocio, Janiece E.; Dick, Danielle M.; Dikeos, Dimitris; Dina, Christian; Dmitrzak-Weglarz, Monika; Docampo, Elisa; Duncan, Laramie E.; Egberts, Karin; Ehrlich, Stefan; Escaramís, Geòrgia; Esko, Tõnu; Estivill, Xavier; Farmer, Anne; Favaro, Angela; Fernández-Aranda, Fernando; Fichter, Manfred M.; Fischer, Krista; Föcker, Manuel; Foretova, Lenka; Forstner, Andreas J.; Forzan, Monica; Franklin, Christopher S.; Gallinger, Steven; Giegling, Ina; Giuranna, Johanna; Gonidakis, Fragiskos; Gorwood, Philip; Gratacos Mayora, Monica; Guillaume, Sébastien; Guo, Yiran; Hakonarson, Hakon; Hatzikotoulas, Konstantinos; Hauser, Joanna; Hebebrand, Johannes; Helder, Sietske G.; Herms, Stefan; Herpertz-Dahlmann, Beate; Herzog, Wolfgang; Huckins, Laura M.; Hudson, James I.; Imgart, Hartmut; Inoko, Hidetoshi; Janout, Vladimir; Jiménez-Murcia, Susana; Julià, Antonio; Kalsi, Gursharan; Kaminská, Deborah; Karhunen, Leila; Karwautz, Andreas; Kas, Martien J.H.; Kennedy, James L.; Keski-Rahkonen, Anna; Kiezebrink, Kirsty; Kim, Youl-Ri; Klump, Kelly L.; Knudsen, Gun Peggy S.; La Via, Maria C.; Le Hellard, Stephanie; Levitan, Robert D.; Li, Dong; Lilenfeld, Lisa; Lin, Bochao Danae; Lissowska, Jolanta; Luykx, Jurjen; Magistretti, Pierre J.; Maj, Mario; Mannik, Katrin; Marsal, Sara; Marshall, Christian R.; Mattingsdal, Morten; McDevitt, Sara; McGuffin, Peter; Metspalu, Andres; Meulenbelt, Ingrid; Micali, Nadia; Mitchell, Karen; Monteleone, Alessio Maria; Monteleone, Palmiero; Nacmias, Benedetta; Navratilova, Marie; Ntalla, Ioanna; O’Toole, Julie K.; Ophoff, Roel A.; Padyukov, Leonid; Palotie, Aarno; Pantel, Jacques; Papezova, Hana; Pinto, Dalila; Rabionet, Raquel; Raevuori, Anu; Ramoz, Nicolas; Reichborn-Kjennerud, Ted; Ricca, Valdo; Ripatti, Samuli; Ritschel, Franziska; Roberts, Marion; Rotondo, Alessandro; Rujescu, Dan; Rybakowski, Filip; Santonastaso, Paolo; Scherag, André; Scherer, Stephen W.; Schmidt, Ulrike; Schork, Nicholas J.; Schosser, Alexandra; Seitz, Jochen; Slachtova, Lenka; Slagboom, P. Eline; Slof-Op’t Landt, Margarita C.T.; Slopien, Agnieszka; Sorbi, Sandro; Świątkowska, Beata; Szatkiewicz, Jin P.; Tachmazidou, Ioanna; Tenconi, Elena; Tortorella, Alfonso; Tozzi, Federica; Treasure, Janet; Tsitsika, Artemis; Tyszkiewicz-Nwafor, Marta; Tziouvas, Konstantinos; van Elburg, Annemarie A.; van Furth, Eric F.; Wagner, Gudrun; Walton, Esther; Widen, Elisabeth; Zeggini, Eleftheria; Zerwas, Stephanie; Zipfel, Stephan; Bergen, Andrew W.; Boden, Joseph M.; Brandt, Harry; Crawford, Steven; Halmi, Katherine A.; Horwood, L. John; Johnson, Craig; Kaplan, Allan S.; Kaye, Walter H.; Mitchell, James; Olsen, Catherine M.; Pearson, John F.; Pedersen, Nancy L.; Strober, Michael; Werge, Thomas; Whiteman, David C.; Woodside, D. Blake; Stuber, Garret D.; Grove, Jakob; Henders, Anjali K.; Larsen, Janne T.; Parker, Richard; Petersen, Liselotte V.; Jordan, Jennifer; Kennedy, Martin A.; Birgegård, Andreas; Lichtenstein, Paul; Norring, Claes; Landén, Mikael; Mortensen, Preben Bo; Polimanti, Renato; McClintick, Jeanette N.; Adams, Mark J.; Adkins, Amy E.; Aliev, Fazil; Bacanu, Silviu-Alin; Batzler, Anthony; Bertelsen, Sarah; Biernacka, Joanna M.; Bigdeli, Tim B.; Chen, Li-Shiun; Clarke, Toni-Kim; Degenhardt, Franziska; Docherty, Anna R.; Edwards, Alexis C.; Foo, Jerome C.; Fox, Louis; Frank, Josef; Hack, Laura M.; Hartmann, Annette M.; Hartz, Sarah M.; Heilmann-Heimbach, Stefanie; Hodgkinson, Colin; Hoffmann, Per; Hottenga, Jouke-Jan; Konte, Bettina; Lahti, Jari; Lahti-Pulkkinen, Marius; Lai, Dongbing; Ligthart, Lannie; Loukola, Anu; Maher, Marion S.; Mbarek, Hamdi; McIntosh, Andrew M.; McQueen, Matthew B.; Meyers, Jacquelyn L.; Milaneschi, Yuri; Palviainen, Teemu; Peterson, Roseann E.; Ryu, Euijung; Saccone, Nancy L.; Salvatore, Jessica E.; Sanchez-Roige, Sandra; Schwandt, Melanie; Sherva, Richard; Streit, Fabian; Strohmaier, Jana; Thomas, Nathaniel; Wang, Jen-Chyong; Webb, Bradley T.; Wedow, Robbee; Wetherill, Leah; Wills, Amanda G.; Zhou, Hang; Boardman, Jason D.; Chen, Danfeng; Choi, Doo-Sup; Copeland, William E.; Culverhouse, Robert C.; Dahmen, Norbert; Degenhardt, Louisa; Domingue, Benjamin W.; Frye, Mark A.; Gäbel, Wolfgang; Hayward, Caroline; Ising, Marcus; Keyes, Margaret; Kiefer, Falk; Koller, Gabrielle; Kramer, John; Kuperman, Samuel; Lucae, Susanne; Lynskey, Michael T.; Maier, Wolfgang; Mann, Karl; Männistö, Satu; Müller-Myhsok, Bertram; Murray, Alison D.; Nurnberger, John I.; Preuss, Ulrich; Räikkönen, Katri; Reynolds, Maureen D.; Ridinger, Monika; Scherbaum, Norbert; Schuckit, Marc A.; Soyka, Michael; Treutlein, Jens; Witt, Stephanie H.; Wodarz, Norbert; Zill, Peter; Adkins, Daniel E.; Boomsma, Dorret I.; Bierut, Laura J.; Brown, Sandra A.; Bucholz, Kathleen K.; Costello, E. Jane; de Wit, Harriet; Diazgranados, Nancy; Eriksson, Johan G.; Farrer, Lindsay A.; Foroud, Tatiana M.; Gillespie, Nathan A.; Goate, Alison M.; Goldman, David; Grucza, Richard A.; Hancock, Dana B.; Mullan Harris, Kathleen; Hesselbrock, Victor; Hewitt, John K.; Hopfer, Christian; Iacono, William G.; Johnson, Eric O.; Karpyak, Victor M.; Kendler, Kenneth S.; Kranzler, Henry R.; Krauter, Kenneth; Lind, Penelope A.; McGue, Matt; MacKillop, James; Madden, Pamela A.F.; Maes, Hermine H.; Magnusson, Patrik K.E.; Nelson, Elliot C.; Nöthen, Markus M.; Palmer, Abraham A.; Penninx, Brenda W.J.H.; Porjesz, Bernice; Rice, John P.; Rietschel, Marcella; Riley, Brien P.; Rose, Richard J.; Shen, Pei-Hong; Silberg, Judy; Stallings, Michael C.; Tarter, Ralph E.; Vanyukov, Michael M.; Vrieze, Scott; Wall, Tamara L.; Whitfield, John B.; Zhao, Hongyu; Neale, Benjamin M.; Wade, Tracey D.; Heath, Andrew C.; Montgomery, Grant W.; Martin, Nicholas G.; Sullivan, Patrick F.; Kaprio, Jaakko; Breen, Gerome; Gelernter, Joel; Edenberg, Howard J.; Bulik, Cynthia M.; Agrawal, Arpana; Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of MedicineEating disorders and substance use disorders frequently co-occur. Twin studies reveal shared genetic risk between eating disorders and substance use, with the strongest associations between symptoms of bulimia nervosa (BN) and problem alcohol use, mainly abuse and dependence (twin-based genetic correlation [rg]=0.23–0.53). Analytic advances facilitate the computation of genetic correlations using summary statistics from existing genome-wide association studies (GWAS). We investigated shared genetic risk between eating disorder and substance use and disorder phenotypes using GWAS data. Four eating disorder phenotypes (anorexia nervosa [AN], AN with binge-eating, AN without binge-eating, and a BN factor score), and eight substance use-related phenotypes (drinks per week, alcohol use disorder [AUD], smoking initiation, current smoking, cigarettes per day, nicotine dependence, cannabis initiation, and cannabis use disorder) from eight studies were included. Total sample sizes per phenotype ranged from ~2,400 to ~537,000 individuals. We used linkage disequilibrium score regression to calculate single nucleotide polymorphism-based genetic correlations between eating disorder and substance use-related phenotypes. Significant positive genetic associations emerged between AUD and AN (rg=0.18; false discovery rate q=0.0006), cannabis initiation and AN (rg=0.23; q<0.0001), and cannabis initiation and AN with binge-eating (rg=0.27; q=0.0016). Conversely, significant negative genetic correlations were observed between three non-diagnostic smoking phenotypes (smoking initiation, smoking cessation, and cigarettes per day) and AN without binge-eating (rgs=−0.19 to −0.23; qs<0.04). The observed patterns of association between different eating disorder and substance use-related phenotypes highlights the potentially complex and substance-specific relationships between these behaviors associated with significant public health burden.Item Transancestral GWAS of alcohol dependence reveals common genetic underpinnings with psychiatric disorders(Springer Nature, 2018-12) Walters, Raymond K.; Polimanti, Renato; Johnson, Emma C.; McClintick, Jeanette N.; Adams, Mark J.; Adkins, Amy E.; Aliev, Fazil; Bacanu, Silviu-Alin; Batzler, Anthony; Bertelsen, Sarah; Biernacka, Joanna M.; Bigdeli, Tim B.; Chen, Li-Shiun; Clarke, Toni-Kim; Chou, Yi-Ling; Degenhardt, Franziska; Docherty, Anna R.; Edwards, Alexis C.; Fontanillas, Pierre; Foo, Jerome C.; Fox, Louis; Frank, Josef; Giegling, Ina; Gordon, Scott; Hack, Laura M.; Hartmann, Annette M.; Hartz, Sarah M.; Heilmann-Heimbach, Stefanie; Herms, Stefan; Hodgkinson, Colin; Hoffmann, Per; Hottenga, Jouke Jan; Kennedy, Martin A.; Alanne-Kinnunen, Mervi; Konte, Bettina; Lahti, Jari; Lahti-Pulkkinen, Marius; Lai, Dongbing; Ligthart, Lannie; Loukola, Anu; Maher, Brion S.; Mbarek, Hamdi; McIntosh, Andrew M.; McQueen, Matthew B.; Meyers, Jacquelyn L.; Milaneschi, Yuri; Palviainen, Teemu; Pearson, John F.; Peterson, Roseann E.; Ripatti, Samuli; Ryu, Euijung; Saccone, Nancy L.; Salvatore, Jessica E.; Sanchez-Roige, Sandra; Schwandt, Melanie; Sherva, Richard; Streit, Fabian; Strohmaier, Jana; Thomas, Nathaniel; Wang, Jen-Chyong; Webb, Bradley T.; Wedow, Robbee; Wetherill, Leah; Wills, Amanda G.; Boardman, Jason D.; Chen, Danfeng; Choi, Doo-Sup; Copeland, William E.; Culverhouse, Robert C.; Dahmen, Norbert; Degenhardt, Louisa; Domingue, Benjamin W.; Elson, Sarah L.; Frye, Mark A.; Gäbel, Wolfgang; Hayward, Caroline; Ising, Marcus; Keyes, Margaret; Kiefer, Falk; Kramer, John; Kuperman, Samuel; Lucae, Susanne; Lynskey, Michael T.; Maier, Wolfgang; Mann, Karl; Männistö, Satu; Müller-Myhsok, Bertram; Murray, Alison D.; Nurnberger, John I.; Palotie, Aarno; Preuss, Ulrich; Räikkönen, Katri; Reynolds, Maureen D.; Ridinger, Monika; Scherbaum, Norbert; Schuckit, Marc A.; Soyka, Michael; Treutlein, Jens; Witt, Stephanie; Wodarz, Norbert; Zill, Peter; Adkins, Daniel E.; Boden, Joseph M.; Boomsma, Dorret I.; Bierut, Laura J.; Brown, Sandra A.; Bucholz, Kathleen K.; Cichon, Sven; Costello, E. Jane; de Wit, Harriet; Diazgranados, Nancy; Dick, Danielle M.; Eriksson, Johan G.; Farrer, Lindsay A.; Foroud, Tatiana M.; Gillespie, Nathan A.; Goate, Alison M.; Goldman, David; Grucza, Richard A.; Hancock, Dana B.; Harris, Kathleen Mullan; Heath, Andrew C.; Hesselbrock, Victor; Hewitt, John K.; Hopfer, Christian J.; Horwood, John; Iacono, William; Johnson, Eric O.; Kaprio, Jaakko A.; Karpyak, Victor M.; Kendler, Kenneth S.; Kranzler, Henry R.; Krauter, Kenneth; Lichtenstein, Paul; Lind, Penelope A.; McGue, Matt; MacKillop, James; Madden, Pamela A. F.; Maes, Hermine H.; Magnusson, Patrik; Martin, Nicholas G.; Medland, Sarah E.; Montgomery, Grant W.; Nelson, Elliot C.; Nöthen, Markus M.; Palmer, Abraham A.; Pedersen, Nancy L.; Penninx, Brenda W.J.H.; Porjesz, Bernice; Rice, John P.; Rietschel, Marcella; Riley, Brien P.; Rose, Richard; Rujescu, Dan; Shen, Pei-Hong; Silberg, Judy; Stallings, Michael C.; Tarter, Ralph E.; Vanyukov, Michael M.; Vrieze, Scott; Wall, Tamara L.; Whitfield, John B.; Zhao, Hongyu; Neale, Benjamin M.; Gelernter, Joel; Edenberg, Howard J.; Agrawal, Arpana; Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of MedicineLiability to alcohol dependence (AD) is heritable, but little is known about its complex polygenic architecture or its genetic relationship with other disorders. To discover loci associated with AD and characterize the relationship between AD and other psychiatric and behavioral outcomes, we carried out the largest genome-wide association study to date of DSM-IV-diagnosed AD. Genome-wide data on 14,904 individuals with AD and 37,944 controls from 28 case-control and family-based studies were meta-analyzed, stratified by genetic ancestry (European, n = 46,568; African, n = 6,280). Independent, genome-wide significant effects of different ADH1B variants were identified in European (rs1229984; P = 9.8 × 10-13) and African ancestries (rs2066702; P = 2.2 × 10-9). Significant genetic correlations were observed with 17 phenotypes, including schizophrenia, attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder, depression, and use of cigarettes and cannabis. The genetic underpinnings of AD only partially overlap with those for alcohol consumption, underscoring the genetic distinction between pathological and nonpathological drinking behaviors.