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Genome-wide association study identifies five new schizophrenia loci

  • Stephan Ripke
  • , Alan R Sanders
  • , Kenneth S Kendler
  • , Douglas F Levinson
  • , Pamela Sklar
  • , Peter A Holmans
  • , Dan-Yu Lin
  • , Jubao Duan
  • , Roel A Ophoff
  • , Ole A Andreassen
  • , Edward Scolnick
  • , Sven Cichon
  • , David St Clair
  • , Aiden Corvin
  • , Hugh Gurling
  • , Thomas Werge
  • , Dan Rujescu
  • , Douglas H R Blackwood
  • , Carlos N Pato
  • , Anil K Malhotra
  • Shaun Purcell, Frank Dudbridge, Benjamin M Neale, Lizzy Rossin, Peter M Visscher, Danielle Posthuma, Douglas M Ruderfer, Ayman Fanous, Hreinn Stefansson, Stacy Steinberg, Bryan J Mowry, Vera Golimbet, Marc De Hert, Erik G Jönsson, István Bitter, Olli P H Pietiläinen, David A Collier, Sarah Tosato, Ingrid Agartz, Margot Albus, Madeline Alexander, Richard L Amdur, Farooq Amin, Nicholas Bass, Sarah E Bergen, Donald W Black, Anders D Børglum, Matthew A Brown, Richard Bruggeman, Ben Pickard, The Schizophrenia Psychiatric Genome-Wide Association Study (GWAS) Consortium

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Abstract

We examined the role of common genetic variation in schizophrenia in a genome-wide association study of substantial size: a stage 1 discovery sample of 21,856 individuals of European ancestry and a stage 2 replication sample of 29,839 independent subjects. The combined stage 1 and 2 analysis yielded genome-wide significant associations with schizophrenia for seven loci, five of which are new (1p21.3, 2q32.3, 8p23.2, 8q21.3 and 10q24.32-q24.33) and two of which have been previously implicated (6p21.32-p22.1 and 18q21.2). The strongest new finding (P = 1.6 × 10(-11)) was with rs1625579 within an intron of a putative primary transcript for MIR137 (microRNA 137), a known regulator of neuronal development. Four other schizophrenia loci achieving genome-wide significance contain predicted targets of MIR137, suggesting MIR137-mediated dysregulation as a previously unknown etiologic mechanism in schizophrenia. In a joint analysis with a bipolar disorder sample (16,374 affected individuals and 14,044 controls), three loci reached genome-wide significance: CACNA1C (rs4765905, P = 7.0 × 10(-9)), ANK3 (rs10994359, P = 2.5 × 10(-8)) and the ITIH3-ITIH4 region (rs2239547, P = 7.8 × 10(-9)).
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)969-976
Number of pages8
JournalNature Genetics
Volume43
Issue number10
Early online date18 Sept 2011
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2011

Keywords

  • genome-wide association
  • schizophonia loci

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