Browsing by Author "Posthuma, Danielle"

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    Exome chip meta-analysis fine maps causal variants and elucidates the genetic architecture of rare coding variants in smoking and alcohol use
    (Elsevier, 2018) Brazel, David M.; Jiang, Yu; Hughey, Jordan M.; Turcot, Valérie; Zhan, Xiaowei; Gong, Jian; Batini, Chiara; Weissenkampen, J. Dylan; Liu, MengZhen; Barnes, Daniel R.; Bertelsen, Sarah; Chou, Yi-Ling; Erzurumluoglu, A. Mesut; Faul, Jessica D.; Haessler, Jeff; Hammerschlag, Anke R.; Hsu, Chris; Kapoor, Manav; Lai, Dongbing; Le, Nhung; de Leeuw, Christiaan A.; Loukola, Anu; Mangino, Massimo; Melbourne, Carl A.; Pistis, Giorgio; Qaiser, Beenish; Rohde, Rebecca; Shao, Yaming; Stringham, Heather; Wetherill, Leah; Zhao, Wei; Agrawal, Arpana; Bierut, Laura; Chen, Chu; Eaton, Charles B.; Goate, Alison; Haiman, Christopher; Heath, Andrew; Iacono, William G.; Martin, Nicholas G.; Polderman, Tinca J.; Reiner, Alex; Rice, John; Schlessinger, David; Scholte, H. Steven; Smith, Jennifer A.; Tardif, Jean-Claude; Tindle, Hilary A.; van der Leij, Andries R.; Boehnke, Michael; Chang-Claude, Jenny; Cucca, Francesco; David, Sean P.; Foroud, Tatiana; Howson, Joanna M. M.; Kardia, Sharon L. R.; Kooperberg, Charles; Laakso, Markku; Lettre, Guillaume; Madden, Pamela; McGue, Matt; North, Kari; Posthuma, Danielle; Spector, Timothy; Stram, Daniel; Tobin, Martin D.; Weir, David R.; Kaprio, Jaakko; Abecasis, Gonçalo R.; Liu, Dajiang J.; Vrieze, Scott; Medical and Molecular Genetics, School of Medicine
    Background Smoking and alcohol use have been associated with common genetic variants in multiple loci. Rare variants within these loci hold promise in the identification of biological mechanisms in substance use. Exome arrays and genotype imputation can now efficiently genotype rare nonsynonymous and loss of function variants. Such variants are expected to have deleterious functional consequences, and contribute to disease risk. Methods We analyzed ∼250,000 rare variants from 16 independent studies genotyped with exome arrays and augmented this dataset with imputed data from the UK Biobank. Associations were tested for five phenotypes: cigarettes per day, pack years, smoking initiation, age of smoking initiation, and alcoholic drinks per week. We conducted stratified heritability analyses, single-variant tests, and gene-based burden tests of nonsynonymous/loss of function coding variants. We performed a novel fine mapping analysis to winnow the number of putative causal variants within associated loci. Results Meta-analytic sample sizes ranged from 152,348-433,216, depending on the phenotype. Rare coding variation explained 1.1-2.2% of phenotypic variance, reflecting 11%-18% of the total SNP heritability of these phenotypes. We identified 171 genome-wide associated loci across all phenotypes. Fine mapping identified putative causal variants with double base-pair resolution at 24 of these loci, and between 3 and 10 variants for 65 loci. 20 loci contained rare coding variants in the 95% credible intervals. Conclusions Rare coding variation significantly contributes to the heritability of smoking and alcohol use. Fine mapping GWAS loci identifies specific variants contributing to the biological etiology of substance use behavior.
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    Fine-mapping genomic loci refines bipolar disorder risk genes
    (medRxiv, 2024-02-13) Koromina, Maria; Ravi, Ashvin; Panagiotaropoulou, Georgia; Schilder, Brian M.; Humphrey, Jack; Braun, Alice; Bidgeli, Tim; Chatzinakos, Chris; Coombes, Brandon; Kim, Jaeyoung; Liu, Xiaoxi; Terao, Chikashi; O'Connell, Kevin S.; Adams, Mark; Adolfsson, Rolf; Alda, Martin; Alfredsson, Lars; Andlauer, Till F. M.; Andreassen, Ole A.; Antoniou, Anastasia; Baune, Bernhard T.; Bengesser, Susanne; Biernacka, Joanna; Boehnke, Michael; Bosch, Rosa; Cairns, Murray; Carr, Vaughan J.; Casas, Miquel; Catts, Stanley; Cichon, Sven; Corvin, Aiden; Craddock, Nicholas; Dafnas, Konstantinos; Dalkner, Nina; Dannlowski, Udo; Degenhardt, Franziska; Di Florio, Arianna; Dikeos, Dimitris; Fellendorf, Frederike Tabea; Ferentinos, Panagiotis; Forstner, Andreas J.; Forty, Liz; Frye, Mark; Fullerton, Janice M.; Gawlik, Micha; Gizer, Ian R.; Gordon-Smith, Katherine; Green, Melissa J.; Grigoroiu-Serbanescu, Maria; Guzman-Parra, José; Hahn, Tim; Henskens, Frans; Hillert, Jan; Jablensky, Assen V.; Jones, Lisa; Jones, Ian; Jonsson, Lina; Kelsoe, John R.; Kircher, Tilo; Kirov, George; Kittel-Schneider, Sarah; Kogevinas, Manolis; Landén, Mikael; Leboyer, Marion; Lenger, Melanie; Lissowska, Jolanta; Lochner, Christine; Loughland, Carmel; MacIntyre, Donald; Martin, Nicholas G.; Maratou, Eirini; Mathews, Carol A.; Mayoral, Fermin; McElroy, Susan L.; McGregor, Nathaniel W.; McIntosh, Andrew; McQuillin, Andrew; Michie, Patricia; Milanova, Vihra; Mitchell, Philip B.; Moutsatsou, Paraskevi; Mowry, Bryan; Müller-Myhsok, Bertram; Myers, Richard; Nenadić, Igor; Nöthen, Markus M.; O'Donovan, Claire; O'Donovan, Michael; Ophoff, Roel A.; Owen, Michael J.; Pantelis, Chris; Pato, Carlos; Pato, Michele T.; Patrinos, George P.; Pawlak, Joanna M.; Perlis, Roy H.; Porichi, Evgenia; Posthuma, Danielle; Ramos-Quiroga, Josep Antoni; Reif, Andreas; Reininghaus, Eva Z.; Ribasés, Marta; Rietschel, Marcella; Schall, Ulrich; Schulze, Thomas G.; Scott, Laura; Scott, Rodney J.; Serretti, Alessandro; Shannon Weickert, Cynthia; Smoller, Jordan W.; Soler Artigas, Maria; Stein, Dan J.; Streit, Fabian; Toma, Claudio; Tooney, Paul; Vieta, Eduard; Vincent, John B.; Waldman, Irwin D.; Weickert, Thomas; Witt, Stephanie H.; Hong, Kyung Sue; Ikeda, Masashi; Iwata, Nakao; Świątkowska, Beata; Won, Hong-Hee; Edenberg, Howard J.; Ripke, Stephan; Raj, Towfique; Coleman, Jonathan R. I.; Mullins, Niamh; Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Medicine
    Bipolar disorder (BD) is a heritable mental illness with complex etiology. While the largest published genome-wide association study identified 64 BD risk loci, the causal SNPs and genes within these loci remain unknown. We applied a suite of statistical and functional fine-mapping methods to these loci, and prioritized 22 likely causal SNPs for BD. We mapped these SNPs to genes, and investigated their likely functional consequences by integrating variant annotations, brain cell-type epigenomic annotations, brain quantitative trait loci, and results from rare variant exome sequencing in BD. Convergent lines of evidence supported the roles of SCN2A, TRANK1, DCLK3, INSYN2B, SYNE1, THSD7A, CACNA1B, TUBBP5, PLCB3, PRDX5, KCNK4, AP001453.3, TRPT1, FKBP2, DNAJC4, RASGRP1, FURIN, FES, YWHAE, DPH1, GSDMB, MED24, THRA, EEF1A2, and KCNQ2 in BD. These represent promising candidates for functional experiments to understand biological mechanisms and therapeutic potential. Additionally, we demonstrated that fine-mapping effect sizes can improve performance and transferability of BD polygenic risk scores across ancestrally diverse populations, and present a high-throughput fine-mapping pipeline (https://github.com/mkoromina/SAFFARI).
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    The Genetic Architecture of the Human Cerebral Cortex
    (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2020-03-20) Grasby, Katrina L.; Jahanshad, Neda; Painter, Jodie N.; Colodro-Conde, Lucía; Bralten, Janita; Hibar, Derrek P.; Lind, Penelope A.; Pizzagalli, Fabrizio; Ching, Christopher R.K.; McMahon, Mary Agnes B.; Shatokhina, Natalia; Zsembik, Leo C.P.; Thomopoulos, Sophia I.; Zhu, Alyssa H.; Strike, Lachlan T.; Agartz, Ingrid; Alhusaini, Saud; Almeida, Marcio A.A.; Alnæs, Dag; Amlien, Inge K.; Andersson, Micael; Ard, Tyler; Armstrong, Nicola J.; Ashley-Koch, Allison; Atkins, Joshua R.; Bernard, Manon; Brouwer, Rachel M.; Buimer, Elizabeth E.L.; Bülow, Robin; Bürger, Christian; Cannon, Dara M.; Chakravarty, Mallar; Chen, Qiang; Cheung, Joshua W.; Couvy-Duchesne, Baptiste; Dale, Anders M.; Dalvie, Shareefa; de Araujo, Tânia K.; de Zubicaray, Greig I.; de Zwarte, Sonja M.C.; den Braber, Anouk; Doan, Nhat Trung; Dohm, Katharina; Ehrlich, Stefan; Engelbrecht, Hannah-Ruth; Erk, Susanne; Fan, Chun Chieh; Fedko, Iryna O.; Foley, Sonya F.; Ford, Judith M.; Fukunaga, Masaki; Garrett, Melanie E.; Ge, Tian; Giddaluru, Sudheer; Goldman, Aaron L.; Green, Melissa J.; Groenewold, Nynke A.; Grotegerd, Dominik; Gurholt, Tiril P.; Gutman, Boris A.; Hansell, Narelle K.; Harris, Mathew A.; Harrison, Marc B.; Haswell, Courtney C.; Hauser, Michael; Herms, Stefan; Heslenfeld, Dirk J.; Ho, New Fei; Hoehn, David; Hoffmann, Per; Holleran, Laurena; Hoogman, Martine; Hottenga, Jouke-Jan; Ikeda, Masashi; Janowitz, Deborah; Jansen, Iris E.; Jia, Tianye; Jockwitz, Christiane; Kanai, Ryota; Karama, Sherif; Kasperaviciute, Dalia; Kaufmann, Tobias; Kelly, Sinead; Kikuchi, Masataka; Klein, Marieke; Knapp, Michael; Knodt, Annchen R.; Krämer, Bernd; Lam, Max; Lancaster, Thomas M.; Lee, Phil H.; Lett, Tristram A.; Lewis, Lindsay B.; Lopes-Cendes, Iscia; Luciano, Michelle; Macciardi, Fabio; Marquand, Andre F.; Mathias, Samuel R.; Melzer, Tracy R.; Milaneschi, Yuri; Mirza-Schreiber, Nazanin; Moreira, Jose C.V.; Mühleisen, Thomas W.; Müller-Myhsok, Bertram; Najt, Pablo; Nakahara, Soichiro; Nho, Kwangsik; lde Loohuis, Loes M.O.; Orfanos, Dimitri Papadopoulos; Pearson, John F.; Pitcher, Toni L.; Pütz, Benno; Quidé, Yann; Ragothaman, Anjanibhargavi; Rashid, Faisal M.; Reay, William R.; Redlich, Ronny; Reinbold, Céline S.; Repple, Jonathan; Richard, Geneviève; Riedel, Brandalyn C.; Risacher, Shannon L.; Rocha, Cristiane S.; Roth Mota, Nina; Salminen, Lauren; Saremi, Arvin; Saykin, Andrew J.; Schlag, Fenja; Schmaal, Lianne; Schofield, Peter R.; Secolin, Rodrigo; Shapland, Chin Yang; Shen, Li; Shin, Jean; Shumskaya, Elena; Sønderby, Ida E.; Sprooten, Emma; Tansey, Katherine E.; Teumer, Alexander; Thalamuthu, Anbupalam; Tordesillas-Gutiérrez, Diana; Turner, Jessica A.; Uhlmann, Anne; Vallerga, Costanza Ludovica; van der Meer, Dennis; van Donkelaar, Marjolein M.J.; van Eijk, Liza; van Erp, Theo G.M.; van Haren, Neeltje E.M.; van Rooij, Daan; van Tol, Marie-José; Veldink, Jan H.; Verhoef, Ellen; Walton, Esther; Wang, Mingyuan; Wang, Yunpeng; Wardlaw, Joanna M.; Wen, Wei; Westlye, Lars T.; Whelan, Christopher D.; Witt, Stephanie H.; Wittfeld, Katharina; Wolf, Christiane; Wolfers, Thomas; Wu, Jing Qin; Yasuda, Clarissa L.; Zaremba, Dario; Zhang, Zuo; Zwiers, Marcel P.; Artiges, Eric; Assareh, Amelia A.; Ayesa-Arriol, Rosa; Belger, Aysenil; Brandt, Christine L.; Brown, Gregory G.; Cichon, Sven; Curran, Joanne E.; Davies, Gareth E.; Degenhard, Franziska; Dennis, Michelle F.; Dietsche, Bruno; Djurovic, Srdjan; Doherty, Colin P.; Espiritu, Ryan; Garijo, Daniel; Gil, Yolanda; Gowland, Penny A.; Green, Robert C.; Häusler, Alexander N.; Heindel, Walter; Ho, Beng-Choon; Hoffmann, Wolfgang U.; Holsboer, Florian; Homuth, Georg; Hosten, Norbert; Jack, Clifford R.,Jr.; Jang, MiHyun; Jansen, Andreas; Kimbrel, Nathan A.; Kolskår, Knut; Koops, Sanne; Krug, Axel; Lim, Kelvin O.; Luykx, Jurjen J.; Mathalon, Daniel H.; Mather, Karen A.; Mattay, Venkata S.; Matthews, Sarah; Mayoral Van Son, Jaqueline; McEwen, Sarah C.; Melle, Ingrid; Morris, Derek W.; Mueller, Bryon A.; Nauck, Matthias; Nordvik, Jan E.; Nöthen, Markus M.; O'Leary, Daniel S.; Opel, Nils; Paillère Martinot, Marie-Laure; Pike, G. Bruce; Preda, Adrian; Quinlan, Erin B.; Rasser, Paul E.; Ratnakar, Varun; Reppermund, Simone; Steen, Vidar M.; Tooney, Paul A.; Torres, Fábio R.; Veltman, Dick J.; Voyvodic, James T.; Whelan, Robert; White, Tonya; Yamamori, Hidenaga; Adams, Hieab H.H.; Bis, Joshua C.; Debette, Stephanie; Decarli, Charles; Fornage, Myriam; Gudnason, Vilmundur; Hofer, Edith; Ikram, M. Arfan; Launer, Lenore; Longstreth, W.T.; Lopez, Oscar L.; Mazoyer, Bernard; Mosley, Thomas H.; Roshchupkin, Gennady V.; Satizabal, Claudia L.; Schmidt, Reinhold; Seshadri, Sudha; Yang, Qiong; Alvim, Marina K.M.; Ames, David; Anderson, Tim J.; Andreassen, Ole A.; Arias-Vasquez, Alejandro; Bastin, Mark E.; Baune, Bernhard T.; Beckham, Jean C.; Blangero, John; Boomsma, Dorret I.; Brodaty, Henry; Brunner, Han G.; Buckner, Randy L.; Buitelaar, Jan K.; Bustillo, Juan R.; Cahn, Wiepke; Cairns, Murray J.; Calhoun, Vince; Carr, Vaughan J.; Caseras, Xavier; Caspers, Svenja; Cavalleri, Gianpiero L.; Cendes, Fernando; Corvin, Aiden; Crespo-Facorro, Benedicto; Dalrymple-Alford, John C.; Dannlowski, Udo; de Geus, Eco J.C.; Deary, Ian J.; Delanty, Norman; Depondt, Chantal; Desrivières, Sylvane; Donohoe, Gary; Espeseth, Thomas; Fernández, Guillén; Fisher, Simon E.; Flor, Herta; Forstner, Andreas J.; Francks, Clyde; Franke, Barbara; Glahn, David C.; Gollub, Randy L.; Grabe, Hans J.; Gruber, Oliver; Håberg, Asta K.; Hariri, Ahmad R.; Hartman, Catharina A.; Hashimoto, Ryota; Heinz, Andreas; Henskens, Frans A.; Hillegers, Manon H.J.; Hoekstra, Pieter J.; Holmes, Avram J.; Hong, L. Elliot; Hopkins, William D.; Hulshoff Pol, Hilleke E.; Jernigan, Terry L.; Jönsson, Erik G.; Kahn, René S.; Kennedy, Martin A.; Kircher, Tilo T.J.; Kochunov, Peter; Kwok, John B.J.; Le Hellard, Stephanie; Loughland, Carmel M.; Martin, Nicholas G.; Martinot, Jean-Luc; McDonald, Colm; McMahon, Katie L.; Meyer-Lindenberg, Andreas; Michie, Patricia T.; Morey, Rajendra A.; Mowry, Bryan; Nyberg, Lars; Oosterlaan, Jaap; Ophoff, Roel A.; Pantelis, Christos; Paus, Tomas; Pausova, Zdenka; Penninx, Brenda W.J.H.; Polderman, Tinca J.C.; Posthuma, Danielle; Rietschel, Marcella; Roffman, Joshua L.; Rowland, Laura M.; Sachdev, Perminder S.; Sämann, Philipp G.; Schall, Ulrich; Schumann, Gunter; Scott, Rodney J.; Sim, Kang; Sisodiya, Sanjay M.; Smoller, Jordan W.; Sommer, Iris E.; St. Pourcain, Beate; Stein, Dan J.; Toga, Arthur W.; Trollor, Julian N.; Van der Wee, Nic J.A.; van't Ent, Dennis; Völzke, Henry; Walter, Henrik; Weber, Bernd; Weinberger, Daniel R.; Wright, Margaret J.; Zhou, Juan; Stein, Jason L.; Thompson, Paul M.; Medland, Sarah E.; Radiology and Imaging Sciences, School of Medicine
    The cerebral cortex underlies our complex cognitive capabilities, yet little is known about the specific genetic loci that influence human cortical structure. To identify genetic variants that affect cortical structure, we conducted a genome-wide association meta-analysis of brain magnetic resonance imaging data from 51,665 individuals. We analyzed the surface area and average thickness of the whole cortex and 34 regions with known functional specializations. We identified 199 significant loci and found significant enrichment for loci influencing total surface area within regulatory elements that are active during prenatal cortical development, supporting the radial unit hypothesis. Loci that affect regional surface area cluster near genes in Wnt signaling pathways, which influence progenitor expansion and areal identity. Variation in cortical structure is genetically correlated with cognitive function, Parkinson's disease, insomnia, depression, neuroticism, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
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    Genome-wide association study identifies 30 obsessive-compulsive disorder associated loci
    (medRxiv, 2024-03-13) Strom, Nora I.; Gerring, Zachary F.; Galimberti, Marco; Yu, Dongmei; Halvorsen, Matthew W.; Abdellaoui, Abdel; Rodriguez-Fontenla, Cristina; Sealock, Julia M.; Bigdeli, Tim; Coleman, Jonathan R.; Mahjani, Behrang; Thorp, Jackson G.; Bey, Katharina; Burton, Christie L.; Luykx, Jurjen J.; Zai, Gwyneth; Alemany, Silvia; Andre, Christine; Askland, Kathleen D.; Banaj, Nerisa; Barlassina, Cristina; Becker Nissen, Judith; Bienvenu, O. Joseph; Black, Donald; Bloch, Michael H.; Boberg, Julia; Børte, Sigrid; Bosch, Rosa; Breen, Michael; Brennan, Brian P.; Brentani, Helena; Buxbaum, Joseph D.; Bybjerg-Grauholm, Jonas; Byrne, Enda M.; Cabana-Dominguez, Judith; Camarena, Beatriz; Camarena, Adrian; Cappi, Carolina; Carracedo, Angel; Casas, Miguel; Cavallini, Maria Cristina; Ciullo, Valentina; Cook, Edwin H.; Crosby, Jesse; Cullen, Bernadette A.; De Schipper, Elles J.; Delorme, Richard; Djurovic, Srdjan; Elias, Jason A.; Estivill, Xavier; Falkenstein, Martha J.; Fundin, Bengt T.; Garner, Lauryn; German, Chris; Gironda, Christina; Goes, Fernando S.; Grados, Marco A.; Grove, Jakob; Guo, Wei; Haavik, Jan; Hagen, Kristen; Harrington, Kelly; Havdahl, Alexandra; Höffler, Kira D.; Hounie, Ana G.; Hucks, Donald; Hultman, Christina; Janecka, Magdalena; Jenike, Eric; Karlsson, Elinor K.; Kelley, Kara; Klawohn, Julia; Krasnow, Janice E.; Krebs, Kristi; Lange, Christoph; Lanzagorta, Nuria; Levey, Daniel; Lindblad-Toh, Kerstin; Macciardi, Fabio; Maher, Brion; Mathes, Brittany; McArthur, Evonne; McGregor, Nathaniel; McLaughlin, Nicole C.; Meier, Sandra; Miguel, Euripedes C.; Mulhern, Maureen; Nestadt, Paul S.; Nurmi, Erika L.; O'Connell, Kevin S.; Osiecki, Lisa; Ousdal, Olga Therese; Palviainen, Teemu; Pedersen, Nancy L.; Piras, Fabrizio; Piras, Federica; Potluri, Sriramya; Rabionet, Raquel; Ramirez, Alfredo; Rauch, Scott; Reichenberg, Abraham; Riddle, Mark A.; Ripke, Stephan; Rosário, Maria C.; Sampaio, Aline S.; Schiele, Miriam A.; Skogholt, Anne Heidi; Sloofman, Laura G.; Smit, Jan; Soler, Artigas María; Thomas, Laurent F.; Tifft, Eric; Vallada, Homero; van Kirk, Nathanial; Veenstra-VanderWeele, Jeremy; Vulink, Nienke N.; Walker, Christopher P.; Wang, Ying; Wendland, Jens R.; Winsvold, Bendik S.; Yao, Yin; Zhou, Hang; 23andMe Research Team; VA Million Veteran Program; Estonian Biobank; CoGa research team; iPSYCH; HUNT research team; NORDiC research team; Agrawal, Arpana; Alonso, Pino; Berberich, Götz; Bucholz, Kathleen K.; Bulik, Cynthia M.; Cath, Danielle; Denys, Damiaan; Eapen, Valsamma; Edenberg, Howard; Falkai, Peter; Fernandez, Thomas V.; Fyer, Abby J.; Gaziano, J. M.; Geller, Dan A.; Grabe, Hans J.; Greenberg, Benjamin D.; Hanna, Gregory L.; Hickie, Ian B.; Hougaard, David M.; Kathmann, Norbert; Kennedy, James; Lai, Dongbing; Landén, Mikael; Le Hellard, Stéphanie; Leboyer, Marion; Lochner, Christine; McCracken, James T.; Medland, Sarah E.; Mortensen, Preben B.; Neale, Benjamin M.; Nicolini, Humberto; Nordentoft, Merete; Pato, Michele; Pato, Carlos; Pauls, David L.; Piacentini, John; Pittenger, Christopher; Posthuma, Danielle; Ramos-Quiroga, Josep Antoni; Rasmussen, Steven A.; Richter, Margaret A.; Rosenberg, David R.; Ruhrmann, Stephan; Samuels, Jack F.; Sandin, Sven; Sandor, Paul; Spalletta, Gianfranco; Stein, Dan J.; Stewart, S. Evelyn; Storch, Eric A.; Stranger, Barbara E.; Turiel, Maurizio; Werge, Thomas; Andreassen, Ole A.; Børglum, Anders D.; Walitza, Susanne; Hveem, Kristian; Hansen, Bjarne K.; Rück, Christian P.; Martin, Nicholas G.; Milani, Lili; Mors, Ole; Reichborn-Kjennerud, Ted; Ribasés, Marta; Kvale, Gerd; Mataix-Cols, David; Domschke, Katharina; Grünblatt, Edna; Wagner, Michael; Zwart, John-Anker; Breen, Gerome; Nestadt, Gerald; Kaprio, Jaakko; Arnold, Paul D.; Grice, Dorothy E.; Knowles, James A.; Ask, Helga; Verweij, Karin J.; Davis, Lea K.; Smit, Dirk J.; Crowley, James J.; Scharf, Jeremiah M.; Stein, Murray B.; Gelernter, Joel; Mathews, Carol A.; Derks, Eske M.; Mattheisen, Manuel; Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Medicine
    Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) affects ~1% of the population and exhibits a high SNP-heritability, yet previous genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have provided limited information on the genetic etiology and underlying biological mechanisms of the disorder. We conducted a GWAS meta-analysis combining 53,660 OCD cases and 2,044,417 controls from 28 European-ancestry cohorts revealing 30 independent genome-wide significant SNPs and a SNP-based heritability of 6.7%. Separate GWAS for clinical, biobank, comorbid, and self-report sub-groups found no evidence of sample ascertainment impacting our results. Functional and positional QTL gene-based approaches identified 249 significant candidate risk genes for OCD, of which 25 were identified as putatively causal, highlighting WDR6, DALRD3, CTNND1 and genes in the MHC region. Tissue and single-cell enrichment analyses highlighted hippocampal and cortical excitatory neurons, along with D1- and D2-type dopamine receptor-containing medium spiny neurons, as playing a role in OCD risk. OCD displayed significant genetic correlations with 65 out of 112 examined phenotypes. Notably, it showed positive genetic correlations with all included psychiatric phenotypes, in particular anxiety, depression, anorexia nervosa, and Tourette syndrome, and negative correlations with a subset of the included autoimmune disorders, educational attainment, and body mass index. This study marks a significant step toward unraveling its genetic landscape and advances understanding of OCD genetics, providing a foundation for future interventions to address this debilitating disorder.
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    Genome-wide association study of more than 40,000 bipolar disorder cases provides new insights into the underlying biology
    (Springer Nature, 2021-06) Mullins, Niamh; Forstner, Andreas J.; O'Connell, Kevin S.; Coombes, Brandon; Coleman, Jonathan R.I.; Qiao, Zhen; Als, Thomas D.; Bigdeli, Tim B.; Børte, Sigrid; Bryois, Julien; Charney, Alexander W.; Drange, Ole Kristian; Gandal, Michael J.; Hagenaars, Saskia P.; Ikeda, Masashi; Kamitaki, Nolan; Kim, Minsoo; Krebs, Kristi; Panagiotaropoulou, Georgia; Schilder, Brian M.; Sloofman, Laura G.; Steinberg, Stacy; Trubetskoy, Vassily; Winsvold, Bendik S.; Won, Hong-Hee; Abramova, Liliya; Adorjan, Kristina; Agerbo, Esben; Al Eissa, Mariam; Albani, Diego; Alliey-Rodriguez, Ney; Anjorin, Adebayo; Antilla, Verneri; Antoniou, Anastasia; Awasthi, Swapnil; Baek, Ji Hyun; Bækvad-Hansen, Marie; Bass, Nicholas; Bauer, Michael; Beins, Eva C.; Bergen, Sarah E.; Birner, Armin; Pedersen, Carsten Bøcker; Bøen, Erlend; Boks, Marco P.; Bosch, Rosa; Brum, Murielle; Brumpton, Ben M.; Brunkhorst-Kanaan, Nathalie; Budde, Monika; Bybjerg-Grauholm, Jonas; Byerley, William; Cairns, Murray; Casas, Miquel; Cervantes, Pablo; Clarke, Toni-Kim; Cruceanu, Cristiana; Cuellar-Barboza, Alfredo; Cunningham, Julie; Curtis, David; Czerski, Piotr M.; Dale, Anders M.; Dalkner, Nina; David, Friederike S.; Degenhardt, Franziska; Djurovic, Srdjan; Dobbyn, Amanda L.; Douzenis, Athanassios; Elvsåshagen, Torbjørn; Escott-Price, Valentina; Ferrier, I. Nicol; Fiorentino, Alessia; Foroud, Tatiana M.; Forty, Liz; Frank, Josef; Frei, Oleksandr; Freimer, Nelson B.; Frisén, Louise; Gade, Katrin; Garnham, Julie; Gelernter, Joel; Pedersen, Marianne Giørtz; Gizer, Ian R.; Gordon, Scott D.; Gordon-Smith, Katherine; Greenwood, Tiffany A.; Grove, Jakob; Guzman-Parra, José; Ha, Kyooseob; Haraldsson, Magnus; Hautzinger, Martin; Heilbronner, Urs; Hellgren, Dennis; Herms, Stefan; Hoffmann, Per; Holmans, Peter A.; Huckins, Laura; Jamain, Stéphane; Johnson, Jessica S.; Kalman, Janos L.; Kamatani, Yoichiro; Kennedy, James L.; Kittel-Schneider, Sarah; Knowles, James A.; Kogevinas, Manolis; Koromina, Maria; Kranz, Thorsten M.; Kranzler, Henry R.; Kubo, Michiaki; Kupka, Ralph; Kushner, Steven A.; Lavebratt, Catharina; Lawrence, Jacob; Leber, Markus; Lee, Heon-Jeong; Lee, Phil H.; Levy, Shawn E.; Lewis, Catrin; Liao, Calwing; Lucae, Susanne; Lundberg, Martin; MacIntyre, Donald J.; Magnusson, Sigurdur H.; Maier, Wolfgang; Maihofer, Adam; Malaspina, Dolores; Maratou, Eirini; Martinsson, Lina; Mattheisen, Manuel; McCarroll, Steven A.; McGregor, Nathaniel W.; McGuffin, Peter; McKay, James D.; Medeiros, Helena; Medland, Sarah E.; Millischer, Vincent; Montgomery, Grant W.; Moran, Jennifer L.; Morris, Derek W.; Mühleisen, Thomas W.; O'Brien, Niamh; O'Donovan, Claire; Loohuis, Loes M. Olde; Oruc, Lilijana; Papiol, Sergi; Pardiñas, Antonio F.; Perry, Amy; Pfennig, Andrea; Porichi, Evgenia; Potash, James B.; Quested, Digby; Raj, Towfique; Rapaport, Mark H.; DePaulo, J. Raymond; Regeer, Eline J.; Rice, John P.; Rivas, Fabio; Rivera, Margarita; Roth, Julian; Roussos, Panos; Ruderfer, Douglas M.; Sánchez-Mora, Cristina; Schulte, Eva C.; Senner, Fanny; Sharp, Sally; Shilling, Paul D.; Sigurdsson, Engilbert; Sirignano, Lea; Slaney, Claire; Smeland, Olav B.; Smith, Daniel J.; Sobell, Janet L.; Søholm Hansen, Christine; Artigas, Maria Soler; Spijker, Anne T.; Stein, Dan J.; Strauss, John S.; Świątkowska, Beata; Terao, Chikashi; Thorgeirsson, Thorgeir E.; Toma, Claudio; Tooney, Paul; Tsermpini, Evangelia-Eirini; Vawter, Marquis P.; Vedder, Helmut; Walters, James T.R.; Witt, Stephanie H.; Xi, Simon; Xu, Wei; Yang, Jessica Mei Kay; Young, Allan H.; Young, Hannah; Zandi, Peter P.; Zhou, Hang; Zillich, Lea; Adolfsson, Rolf; Agartz, Ingrid; Alda, Martin; Alfredsson, Lars; Babadjanova, Gulja; Backlund, Lena; Baune, Bernhard T.; Bellivier, Frank; Bengesser, Susanne; Berrettini, Wade H.; Blackwood, Douglas H.R.; Boehnke, Michael; Børglum, Anders D.; Breen, Gerome; Carr, Vaughan J.; Catts, Stanley; Corvin, Aiden; Craddock, Nicholas; Dannlowski, Udo; Dikeos, Dimitris; Esko, Tõnu; Etain, Bruno; Ferentinos, Panagiotis; Frye, Mark; Fullerton, Janice M.; Gawlik, Micha; Gershon, Elliot S.; Goes, Fernando S.; Green, Melissa J.; Grigoroiu-Serbanescu, Maria; Hauser, Joanna; Henskens, Frans; Hillert, Jan; Hong, Kyung Sue; Hougaard, David M.; Hultman, Christina M.; Hveem, Kristian; Iwata, Nakao; Jablensky, Assen V.; Jones, Ian; Jones, Lisa A.; Kahn, René S.; Kelsoe, John R.; Kirov, George; Landén, Mikael; Leboyer, Marion; Lewis, Cathryn M.; Li, Qingqin S.; Lissowska, Jolanta; Lochner, Christine; Loughland, Carmel; Martin, Nicholas G.; Mathews, Carol A.; Mayoral, Fermin; McElroy, Susan L.; McIntosh, Andrew M.; McMahon, Francis J.; Melle, Ingrid; Michie, Patricia; Milani, Lili; Mitchell, Philip B.; Morken, Gunnar; Mors, Ole; Mortensen, Preben Bo; Mowry, Bryan; Müller-Myhsok, Bertram; Myers, Richard M.; Neale, Benjamin M.; Nievergelt, Caroline M.; Nordentoft, Merete; Nöthen, Markus M.; O'Donovan, Michael C.; Oedegaard, Ketil J.; Olsson, Tomas; Owen, Michael J.; Paciga, Sara A.; Pantelis, Chris; Pato, Carlos; Pato, Michele T.; Patrinos, George P.; Perlis, Roy H.; Posthuma, Danielle; Ramos-Quiroga, Josep Antoni; Reif, Andreas; Reininghaus, Eva Z.; Ribasés, Marta; Rietschel, Marcella; Ripke, Stephan; Rouleau, Guy A.; Saito, Takeo; Schall, Ulrich; Schalling, Martin; Schofield, Peter R.; Schulze, Thomas G.; Scott, Laura J.; Scott, Rodney J.; Serretti, Alessandro; Weickert, Cynthia Shannon; Smoller, Jordan W.; Stefansson, Hreinn; Stefansson, Kari; Stordal, Eystein; Streit, Fabian; Sullivan, Patrick F.; Turecki, Gustavo; Vaaler, Arne E.; Vieta, Eduard; Vincent, John B.; Waldman, Irwin D.; Weickert, Thomas W.; Werge, Thomas; Wray, Naomi R.; Zwart, John-Anker; Biernacka, Joanna M.; Nurnberger, John I.; Cichon, Sven; Edenberg, Howard J.; Stahl, Eli A.; McQuillin, Andrew; Florio, Arianna Di; Ophoff, Roel A.; Andreassen, Ole A.; Medical and Molecular Genetics, School of Medicine
    Bipolar disorder is a heritable mental illness with complex etiology. We performed a genome-wide association study of 41,917 bipolar disorder cases and 371,549 controls of European ancestry, which identified 64 associated genomic loci. Bipolar disorder risk alleles were enriched in genes in synaptic signaling pathways and brain-expressed genes, particularly those with high specificity of expression in neurons of the prefrontal cortex and hippocampus. Significant signal enrichment was found in genes encoding targets of antipsychotics, calcium channel blockers, antiepileptics and anesthetics. Integrating expression quantitative trait locus data implicated 15 genes robustly linked to bipolar disorder via gene expression, encoding druggable targets such as HTR6, MCHR1, DCLK3 and FURIN. Analyses of bipolar disorder subtypes indicated high but imperfect genetic correlation between bipolar disorder type I and II and identified additional associated loci. Together, these results advance our understanding of the biological etiology of bipolar disorder, identify novel therapeutic leads and prioritize genes for functional follow-up studies.
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    Meta-analysis of up to 622,409 individuals identifies 40 novel smoking behaviour associated genetic loci
    (Springer Nature, 2019-01-07) Erzurumluoglu, A. Mesut; Liu, Mengzhen; Jackson, Victoria E.; Barnes, Daniel R.; Datta, Gargi; Melbourne, Carl A.; Young, Robin; Batini, Chiara; Surendran, Praveen; Jiang, Tao; Adnan, Sheikh Daud; Afaq, Saima; Agrawal, Arpana; Altmaier, Elisabeth; Antoniou, Antonis C.; Asselbergs, Folkert W.; Baumbach, Clemens; Bierut, Laura; Bertelsen, Sarah; Boehnke, Michael; Bots, Michiel L.; Brazel, David M.; Chambers, John C.; Chang-Claude, Jenny; Chen, Chu; Corley, Janie; Chou, Yi-Ling; David, Sean P.; Boer, Rudolf A. de; Leeuw, Christiaan A. de; Dennis, Joe G.; Dominiczak, Anna F.; Dunning, Alison M.; Easton, Douglas F.; Eaton, Charles; Elliott, Paul; Evangelou, Evangelos; Faul, Jessica D.; Foroud, Tatiana; Goate, Alison; Gong, Jian; Grabe, Hans J.; Haessler, Jeff; Haiman, Christopher; Hallmans, Göran; Hammerschlag, Anke R.; Harris, Sarah E.; Hattersley, Andrew; Heath, Andrew; Hsu, Chris; Iacono, William G.; Kanoni, Stavroula; Kapoor, Manav; Kaprio, Jaakko; Kardia, Sharon L.; Karpe, Fredrik; Kontto, Jukka; Kooner, Jaspal S.; Kooperberg, Charles; Kuulasmaa, Kari; Laakso, Markku; Lai, Dongbing; Langenberg, Claudia; Le, Nhung; Lettre, Guillaume; Loukola, Anu; Luan, Jian’an; Madden, Pamela A. F.; Mangino, Massimo; Marioni, Riccardo E.; Marouli, Eirini; Marten, Jonathan; Martin, Nicholas G.; McGue, Matt; Michailidou, Kyriaki; Mihailov, Evelin; Moayyeri, Alireza; Moitry, Marie; Müller-Nurasyid, Martina; Naheed, Aliya; Nauck, Matthias; Neville, Matthew J.; Nielsen, Sune Fallgaard; North, Kari; Perola, Markus; Pharoah, Paul D. P.; Pistis, Giorgio; Polderman, Tinca J.; Posthuma, Danielle; Poulter, Neil; Qaiser, Beenish; Rasheed, Asif; Reiner, Alex; Renström, Frida; Rice, John; Rohde, Rebecca; Rolandsson, Olov; Samani, Nilesh J.; Samuel, Maria; Schlessinger, David; Scholte, Steven H.; Scott, Robert A.; Sever, Peter; Shao, Yaming; Shrine, Nick; Smith, Jennifer A.; Starr, John M.; Stirrups, Kathleen; Stram, Danielle; Stringham, Heather M.; Tachmazidou, Ioanna; Tardif, Jean-Claude; Thompson, Deborah J.; Tindle, Hilary A.; Tragante, Vinicius; Trompet, Stella; Turcot, Valerie; Tyrrell, Jessica; Vaartjes, Ilonca; Leij, Andries R. van der; Meer, Peter van der; Varga, Tibor V.; Verweij, Niek; Völzke, Henry; Wareham, Nicholas J.; Warren, Helen R.; Weir, David R.; Weiss, Stefan; Wetherill, Leah; Yaghootkar, Hanieh; Yavas, Ersin; Jiang, Yu; Chen, Fang; Zhan, Xiaowei; Zhang, Weihua; Zhao, Wei; Zhao, Wei; Zhou, Kaixin; Amouyel, Philippe; Blankenberg, Stefan; Caulfield, Mark J.; Chowdhury, Rajiv; Cucca, Francesco; Deary, Ian J.; Deloukas, Panos; Angelantonio, Emanuele Di; Ferrario, Marco; Ferrières, Jean; Franks, Paul W.; Frayling, Tim M.; Frossard, Philippe; Hall, Ian P.; Hayward, Caroline; Jansson, Jan-Håkan; Jukema, J. Wouter; Kee, Frank; Männistö, Satu; Metspalu, Andres; Munroe, Patricia B.; Nordestgaard, Børge Grønne; Palmer, Colin N. A.; Salomaa, Veikko; Sattar, Naveed; Spector, Timothy; Strachan, David Peter; Harst, Pim van der; Zeggini, Eleftheria; Saleheen, Danish; Butterworth, Adam S.; Wain, Louise V.; Abecasis, Goncalo R.; Danesh, John; Tobin, Martin D.; Vrieze, Scott; Liu, Dajiang J.; Howson, Joanna M. M.; Medical and Molecular Genetics, School of Medicine
    Smoking is a major heritable and modifiable risk factor for many diseases, including cancer, common respiratory disorders and cardiovascular diseases. Fourteen genetic loci have previously been associated with smoking behaviour-related traits. We tested up to 235,116 single nucleotide variants (SNVs) on the exome-array for association with smoking initiation, cigarettes per day, pack-years, and smoking cessation in a fixed effects meta-analysis of up to 61 studies (up to 346,813 participants). In a subset of 112,811 participants, a further one million SNVs were also genotyped and tested for association with the four smoking behaviour traits. SNV-trait associations with P < 5 × 10−8 in either analysis were taken forward for replication in up to 275,596 independent participants from UK Biobank. Lastly, a meta-analysis of the discovery and replication studies was performed. Sixteen SNVs were associated with at least one of the smoking behaviour traits (P < 5 × 10−8) in the discovery samples. Ten novel SNVs, including rs12616219 near TMEM182, were followed-up and five of them (rs462779 in REV3L, rs12780116 in CNNM2, rs1190736 in GPR101, rs11539157 in PJA1, and rs12616219 near TMEM182) replicated at a Bonferroni significance threshold (P < 4.5 × 10−3) with consistent direction of effect. A further 35 SNVs were associated with smoking behaviour traits in the discovery plus replication meta-analysis (up to 622,409 participants) including a rare SNV, rs150493199, in CCDC141 and two low-frequency SNVs in CEP350 and HDGFRP2. Functional follow-up implied that decreased expression of REV3L may lower the probability of smoking initiation. The novel loci will facilitate understanding the genetic aetiology of smoking behaviour and may lead to the identification of potential drug targets for smoking prevention and/or cessation.
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    New insights into the genetic etiology of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias
    (Springer Nature, 2022) Bellenguez, Céline; Küçükali, Fahri; Jansen, Iris E.; Kleineidam, Luca; Moreno-Grau, Sonia; Amin, Najaf; Naj, Adam C.; Campos-Martin, Rafael; Grenier-Boley, Benjamin; Andrade, Victor; Holmans, Peter A.; Boland, Anne; Damotte, Vincent; van der Lee, Sven J.; Costa, Marcos R.; Kuulasmaa, Teemu; Yang, Qiong; de Rojas, Itziar; Bis, Joshua C.; Yaqub, Amber; Prokic, Ivana; Chapuis, Julien; Ahmad, Shahzad; Giedraitis, Vilmantas; Aarsland, Dag; Garcia-Gonzalez, Pablo; Abdelnour, Carla; Alarcón-Martín, Emilio; Alcolea, Daniel; Alegret, Montserrat; Alvarez, Ignacio; Álvarez, Victoria; Armstrong, Nicola J.; Tsolaki, Anthoula; Antúnez, Carmen; Appollonio, Ildebrando; Arcaro, Marina; Archetti, Silvana; Arias Pastor, Alfonso; Arosio, Beatrice; Athanasiu, Lavinia; Bailly, Henri; Banaj, Nerisa; Baquero, Miquel; Barral, Sandra; Beiser, Alexa; Belén Pastor, Ana; Below, Jennifer E.; Benchek, Penelope; Benussi, Luisa; Berr, Claudine; Besse, Céline; Bessi, Valentina; Binetti, Giuliano; Bizarro, Alessandra; Blesa, Rafael; Boada, Mercè; Boerwinkle, Eric; Borroni, Barbara; Boschi, Silvia; Bossù, Paola; Bråthen, Geir; Bressler, Jan; Bresner, Catherine; Brodaty, Henry; Brookes, Keeley J.; Brusco, Luis Ignacio; Buiza-Rueda, Dolores; Bûrger, Katharina; Burholt, Vanessa; Bush, William S.; Calero, Miguel; Cantwell, Laura B.; Chene, Geneviève; Chung, Jaeyoon; Cuccaro, Michael L.; Carracedo, Ángel; Cecchetti, Roberta; Cervera-Carles, Laura; Charbonnier, Camille; Chen, Hung-Hsin; Chillotti, Caterina; Ciccone, Simona; Claassen, Jurgen A. 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R.; Clark, Christopher; Conti, Elisa; Corma-Gómez, Anaïs; Costantini, Emanuele; Custodero, Carlo; Daian, Delphine; Dalmasso, Maria Carolina; Daniele, Antonio; Dardiotis, Efthimios; Dartigues, Jean-François; de Deyn, Peter Paul; de Paiva Lopes, Katia; de Witte, Lot D.; Debette, Stéphanie; Deckert, Jürgen; Del Ser, Teodoro; Denning, Nicola; DeStefano, Anita; Dichgans, Martin; Diehl-Schmid, Janine; Diez-Fairen, Mónica; Dionigi Rossi, Paolo; Djurovic, Srdjan; Duron, Emmanuelle; Düzel, Emrah; Dufouil, Carole; Eiriksdottir, Gudny; Engelborghs, Sebastiaan; Escott-Price, Valentina; Espinosa, Ana; Ewers, Michael; Faber, Kelley M.; Fabrizio, Tagliavini; Fallgaard Nielsen, Sune; Fardo, David W.; Farotti, Lucia; Fenoglio, Chiara; Fernández-Fuertes, Marta; Ferrari, Raffaele; Ferreira, Catarina B.; Ferri, Evelyn; Fin, Bertrand; Fischer, Peter; Fladby, Tormod; Fließbach, Klaus; Fongang, Bernard; Fornage, Myriam; Fortea, Juan; Foroud, Tatiana M.; Fostinelli, Silvia; Fox, Nick C.; Franco-Macías, Emlio; Bullido, María J.; Frank-García, Ana; Froelich, Lutz; Fulton-Howard, Brian; Galimberti, Daniela; García-Alberca, Jose Maria; García-González, Pablo; Garcia-Madrona, Sebastian; Garcia-Ribas, Guillermo; Ghidoni, Roberta; Giegling, Ina; Giorgio, Giaccone; Goate, Alison M.; Goldhardt, Oliver; Gomez-Fonseca, Duber; González-Pérez, Antonio; Graff, Caroline; Grande, Giulia; Green, Emma; Grimmer, Timo; Grünblatt, Edna; Grunin, Michelle; Gudnason, Vilmundur; Guetta-Baranes, Tamar; Haapasalo, Annakaisa; Hadjigeorgiou, Georgios; Haines, Jonathan L.; Hamilton-Nelson, Kara L.; Hampel, Harald; Hanon, Olivier; Hardy, John; Hartmann, Annette M.; Hausner, Lucrezia; Harwood, Janet; Heilmann-Heimbach, Stefanie; Helisalmi, Seppo; Heneka, Michael T.; Hernández, Isabel; Herrmann, Martin J.; Hoffmann, Per; Holmes, Clive; Holstege, Henne; Huerto Vilas, Raquel; Hulsman, Marc; Humphrey, Jack; Jan Biessels, Geert; Jian, Xueqiu; Johansson, Charlotte; Jun, Gyungah R.; Kastumata, Yuriko; Kauwe, John; Kehoe, Patrick G.; Kilander, Lena; Kinhult Ståhlbom, Anne; Kivipelto, Miia; Koivisto, Anne; Kornhuber, Johannes; Kosmidis, Mary H.; Kukull, Walter A.; Kuksa, Pavel P.; Kunkle, Brian W.; Kuzma, Amanda B.; Lage, Carmen; Laukka, Erika J.; Launer, Lenore; Lauria, Alessandra; Lee, Chien-Yueh; Lehtisalo, Jenni; Lerch, Ondrej; Lleó, Alberto; Longstreth, William, Jr.; Lopez, Oscar; Lopez de Munain, Adolfo; Love, Seth; Löwemark, Malin; Luckcuck, Lauren; Lunetta, Kathryn L.; Ma, Yiyi; Macías, Juan; MacLeod, Catherine A.; Maier, Wolfgang; Mangialasche, Francesca; Spallazzi, Marco; Marquié, Marta; Marshall, Rachel; Martin, Eden R.; Martín Montes, Angel; Martínez Rodríguez, Carmen; Masullo, Carlo; Mayeux, Richard; Mead, Simon; Mecocci, Patrizia; Medina, Miguel; Meggy, Alun; Mehrabian, Shima; Mendoza, Silvia; Menéndez-González, Manuel; Mir, Pablo; Moebus, Susanne; Mol, Merel; Molina-Porcel, Laura; Montrreal, Laura; Morelli, Laura; Moreno, Fermin; Morgan, Kevin; Mosley, Thomas; Nöthen, Markus M.; Muchnik, Carolina; Mukherjee, Shubhabrata; Nacmias, Benedetta; Ngandu, Tiia; Nicolas, Gael; Nordestgaard, Børge G.; Olaso, Robert; Orellana, Adelina; Orsini, Michela; Ortega, Gemma; Padovani, Alessandro; Paolo, Caffarra; Papenberg, Goran; Parnetti, Lucilla; Pasquier, Florence; Pastor, Pau; Peloso, Gina; Pérez-Cordón, Alba; Pérez-Tur, Jordi; Pericard, Pierre; Peters, Oliver; Pijnenburg, Yolande A. L.; Pineda, Juan A.; Piñol-Ripoll, Gerard; Pisanu, Claudia; Polak, Thomas; Popp, Julius; Posthuma, Danielle; Priller, Josef; Puerta, Raquel; Quenez, Olivier; Quintela, Inés; Qvist Thomassen, Jesper; Rábano, Alberto; Rainero, Innocenzo; Rajabli, Farid; Ramakers, Inez; Real, Luis M.; Reinders, Marcel J. T.; Reitz, Christiane; Reyes-Dumeyer, Dolly; Ridge, Perry; Riedel-Heller, Steffi; Riederer, Peter; Roberto, Natalia; Rodriguez-Rodriguez, Eloy; Rongve, Arvid; Rosas Allende, Irene; Rosende-Roca, Maitée; Royo, Jose Luis; Rubino, Elisa; Rujescu, Dan; Sáez, María Eugenia; Sakka, Paraskevi; Saltvedt, Ingvild; Sanabria, Ángela; Sánchez-Arjona, María Bernal; Sanchez-Garcia, Florentino; Sánchez Juan, Pascual; Sánchez-Valle, Raquel; Sando, Sigrid B.; Sarnowski, Chloé; Satizabal, Claudia L.; Scamosci, Michela; Scarmeas, Nikolaos; Scarpini, Elio; Scheltens, Philip; Scherbaum, Norbert; Scherer, Martin; Schmid, Matthias; Schneider, Anja; Schott, Jonathan M.; Selbæk, Geir; Seripa, Davide; Serrano, Manuel; Sha, Jin; Shadrin, Alexey A.; Skrobot, Olivia; Slifer, Susan; Snijders, Gijsje J. L.; Soininen, Hilkka; Solfrizzi, Vincenzo; Solomon, Alina; Song, Yeunjoo; Sorbi, Sandro; Sotolongo-Grau, Oscar; Spalletta, Gianfranco; Spottke, Annika; Squassina, Alessio; Stordal, Eystein; Tartan, Juan Pablo; Tárraga, Lluís; Tesí, Niccolo; Thalamuthu, Anbupalam; Thomas, Tegos; Tosto, Giuseppe; Traykov, Latchezar; Tremolizzo, Lucio; Tybjærg-Hansen, Anne; Uitterlinden, Andre; Ullgren, Abbe; Ulstein, Ingun; Valero, Sergi; Valladares, Otto; Van Broeckhoven, Christine; Vance, Jeffery; Vardarajan, Badri N.; van der Lugt, Aad; Van Dongen, Jasper; van Rooij, Jeroen; van Swieten, John; Vandenberghe, Rik; Verhey, Frans; Vidal, Jean-Sébastien; Vogelgsang, Jonathan; Vyhnalek, Martin; Wagner, Michael; Wallon, David; Wang, Li-San; Wang, Ruiqi; Weinhold, Leonie; Wiltfang, Jens; Windle, Gill; Woods, Bob; Yannakoulia, Mary; Zare, Habil; Zhao, Yi; Zhang, Xiaoling; Zhu, Congcong; Zulaica, Miren; EADB; GR@ACE; DEGESCO; EADI; GERAD; Demgene; FinnGen; ADGC; CHARGE; Farrer, Lindsay A.; Psaty, Bruce M.; Ghanbari, Mohsen; Raj, Towfique; Sachdev, Perminder; Mather, Karen; Jessen, Frank; Ikram, M. Arfan; de Mendonça, Alexandre; Hort, Jakub; Tsolaki, Magda; Pericak-Vance, Margaret A.; Amouyel, Philippe; Williams, Julie; Frikke-Schmidt, Ruth; Clarimon, Jordi; Deleuze, Jean-François; Rossi, Giacomina; Seshadri, Sudha; Andreassen, Ole A.; Ingelsson, Martin; Hiltunen, Mikko; Sleegers, Kristel; Schellenberg, Gerard D.; van Duijn, Cornelia M.; Sims, Rebecca; van der Flier, Wiesje M.; Ruiz, Agustín; Ramirez, Alfredo; Lambert, Jean-Charles; Medical and Molecular Genetics, School of Medicine
    Characterization of the genetic landscape of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and related dementias (ADD) provides a unique opportunity for a better understanding of the associated pathophysiological processes. We performed a two-stage genome-wide association study totaling 111,326 clinically diagnosed/‘proxy’ AD cases and 677,663 controls. We found 75 risk loci, of which 42 were new at the time of analysis. Pathway enrichment analyses confirmed the involvement of amyloid/tau pathways and highlighted microglia implication. Gene prioritization in the new loci identified 31 genes that were suggestive of new genetically associated processes, including the tumor necrosis factor alpha pathway through the linear ubiquitin chain assembly complex. We also built a new genetic risk score associated with the risk of future AD/dementia or progression from mild cognitive impairment to AD/dementia. The improvement in prediction led to a 1.6- to 1.9-fold increase in AD risk from the lowest to the highest decile, in addition to effects of age and the APOE ε4 allele.
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    Translating genome-wide association findings into new therapeutics for psychiatry
    (Nature, 2016-11) Breen, Gerome; Li, Qingqin; Roth, Bryan L.; O'Donnell, Patricio; Didriksen, Michael; Dolmetsch, Ricardo; O'Reilly, Paul; Gaspar, Helena; Manji, Husseini; Huebel, Christopher; Kelsoe, John R.; Malhotra, Dheeraj; Bertolino, Alessandro; Posthuma, Danielle; Sklar, Pamela; Kapur, Shitij; Sullivan, Patrick F.; Collier, David A.; Edenberg, Howard J.; Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, IU School of Medicine
    Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in psychiatry, once they reach sufficient sample size and power, have been enormously successful. The Psychiatric Genomics Consortium (PGC) aims for mega-analyses with sample sizes that will grow to >1 million individuals in the next 5 years. This should lead to hundreds of new findings for common genetic variants across nine psychiatric disorders studied by the PGC. The new targets discovered by GWAS have the potential to restart largely stalled psychiatric drug development pipelines, and the translation of GWAS findings into the clinic is a key aim of the recently funded phase 3 of the PGC. This is not without considerable technical challenges. These approaches complement the other main aim of GWAS studies, risk prediction approaches for improving detection, differential diagnosis, and clinical trial design. This paper outlines the motivations, technical and analytical issues, and the plans for translating PGC phase 3 findings into new therapeutics.