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Genome-wide association study identifies 30 loci associated with bipolar disorder

Eli A. Stahl, Gerome Breen, Andreas J. Forstner, Andrew McQuillin, Stephan Ripke, Vassily Trubetskoy, Manuel Mattheisen, Yunpeng Wang, Jonathan R. I. Coleman, Héléna A. Gaspar, Christiaan de Leeuw, Stacy Steinberg, Jennifer M. Whitehead Pavlides, Maciej Trzaskowski, Enda M. Byrne, Tune H. Pers, Peter Holmans, Alexander Richards, Liam Abbott, Esben Agerbo, Huda Akil, Diego Albani, Ney Alliey‐Rodriguez, Thomas D. Als, Adebayo Anjorin, Verneri Antilla, Swapnil Awasthi, Judith A. Badner, Marie Bækvad‐Hansen, Jack D. Barchas, Nicholas Bass, Michael Bauer, Richard A. Belliveau, Sarah E. Bergen, Carsten Bøcker Pedersen, Erlend Bøen, Marco P. Boks, James Boocock, Monika Budde, William E. Bunney, Margit Burmeister, Jonas Bybjerg‐Grauholm, William Byerley, Miguel Casas, Felecia Cerrato, Pablo Cervantes, Kimberly Chambert, Alexander W. Charney, Danfeng Chen, Claire Churchhouse, Toni‐Kim Clarke, William Coryell, David W. Craig, Cristiana Cruceanu, David Curtis, Piotr M. Czerski, Anders M. Dale, Simone de Jong, Franziska Degenhardt, Jurgen Del‐Favero, J. Raymond DePaulo, Srdjan Djurovic, Amanda Dobbyn, Ashley Dumont, Torbjørn Elvsåshagen, Valentina Escott‐Price, Chun Chieh Fan, Sascha B. Fischer, Matthew Flickinger, Tatiana Foroud, Liz Forty, Josef Frank, Christine Fraser, Nelson B. Freimer, Louise Frisén, Katrin Gade, Diane Gage, Julie Garnham, Claudia Giambartolomei, Marianne Giørtz Pedersen, Jaqueline Goldstein, Scott D. Gordon, Katherine Gordon‐Smith, Elaine Green, Melissa J. Green, Tiffany A. Greenwood, Jakob Grove, Weihua Guan, José Guzmán‐Parra, Marian L. Hamshere, Martin Hautzinger, Urs Heilbronner, Stefan Herms, Maria Hipolito, Per Hoffmann, Dominic Holland, Laura M. Huckins, Stéphane Jamain, Jessica Johnson, Anders Juréus

Nature Genetics · 2019

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Summary

) in the discovery GWAS were not genome-wide significant in the combined analysis, consistent with small effect sizes and limited power but also with genetic heterogeneity. In the combined analysis, 30 loci were genome-wide significant, including 20 newly identified loci. The significant loci contain genes encoding ion channels, neurotransmitter transporters and synaptic components. Pathway analysis revealed nine significantly enriched gene sets, including regulation of insulin secretion and endocannabinoid signaling. Bipolar I disorder is strongly genetically correlated with schizophrenia, driven by psychosis, whereas bipolar II disorder is more strongly correlated with major depressive disorder. These findings address key clinical questions and provide potential biological mechanisms for

Source type
Peer-reviewed study
DOI
10.1038/s41588-019-0397-8
Catalogue ID
SNmoj7nu48-arwi35
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