Evidence map›Paper›PMID 21041247›Full record

SynthesisThe American journal of psychiatry2010

Genome-wide association study of suicide attempts in mood disorder patients.

Roy H Perlis, Jie Huang, Shaun Purcell, Maurizio Fava, A John Rush, Patrick F Sullivan, Steven P Hamilton, Francis J McMahon, Thomas G Schulze, Thomas Schulze and 18 more

Erratum issuedAbstract readMeta-AnalysisMulticenter Study
In one paragraph

Synthesis in The American journal of psychiatry, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 79 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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79citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
9.9field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

79 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 156 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Genetics and epigenetics of self-injurious thoughts and behaviors: Systematic review of the suicide literature and methodological considerations.American journal of medical genetics. Part B, Neuropsychiatric genetics : the official publication of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics · 2022
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  7. Identification of Transdiagnostic Childhood Externalizing Pathology Within an Electronic Medical Records Database and Application to the Analysis of Rare Copy Number Variation.American journal of medical genetics. Part B, Neuropsychiatric genetics : the official publication of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

28 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Roy H PerlisDepartment of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 02114, USA. rperlis@partners.org
Jie Huang
Shaun Purcell
Maurizio Fava
A John Rush
Patrick F Sullivan
Steven P Hamilton
Francis J McMahon
Thomas G Schulze
Thomas Schulze
James B Potash
Peter P Zandi
Virginia L Willour
Brenda W Penninx
Dorret I Boomsma
Nicole Vogelzangs
Christel M Middeldorp
Marcella Rietschel
Markus Nöthen
Sven Cichon
Hugh Gurling
Nick Bass
Andrew McQuillin
Marian Hamshere
Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium Bipolar Disorder Group
Nick Craddock
Pamela Sklar
Jordan W Smoller
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · US

Funding

Identification of Genes Involved in Major Mood DisordersZIAMH002843 · NIMH · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH · PI MCMAHON, FRANCIS J · 2009 to 2025
$24.5M
Building a Risk Stratification Model for Treatment Resistance in Major DepressiveR01MH086026 · NIMH · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI PERLIS, ROY H. · 2009 to 2011
$1.3M
BIOINFORMATICS TO DISCOVER GENES IN PSYCHIATRIC ILLNESSK01MH072866 · NIMH · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI ZANDI, PETER P. · 2005 to 2009
$724k
Intramural NIH HHSMedical Research Council G1000708NIMH NIH HHS K01 MH072866NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH086026NIMH NIH HHS R01MH-086026Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveFamily and twin studies suggest that liability for suicide attempts is heritable and distinct from mood disorder susceptibility. The authors therefore examined the association between common genomewide variation and lifetime suicide attempts.

methodThe authors analyzed data on lifetime suicide attempts from genomewide association studies of bipolar I and II disorder as well as major depressive disorder. Bipolar disorder subjects were drawn from the Systematic Treatment Enhancement Program for Bipolar Disorder cohort, the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium bipolar cohort, and the University College London cohort. Replication was pursued in the NIMH Genetic Association Information Network bipolar disorder project and a German clinical cohort. Depression subjects were drawn from the Sequential Treatment Alternatives to Relieve Depression cohort, with replication in the Netherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety/Netherlands Twin Register depression cohort.

resultsStrongest evidence of association for suicide attempt in bipolar disorder was observed in a region without identified genes (rs1466846); five loci also showed suggestive evidence of association. In major depression, strongest evidence of association was observed for a single nucleotide polymorphism in ABI3BP, with six loci also showing suggestive association. Replication cohorts did not provide further support for these loci. However, meta-analysis incorporating approximately 8,700 mood disorder subjects identified four additional regions that met the threshold for suggestive association, including the locus containing the gene coding for protein kinase C-epsilon, previously implicated in models of mood and anxiety.

conclusionsThe results suggest that inherited risk for suicide among mood disorder patients is unlikely to be the result of individual common variants of large effect. They nonetheless provide suggestive evidence for multiple loci, which merit further investigation.

Indexed as

Suicide, AttemptedGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseGenome-Wide Association StudyGenotypeHumansMood DisordersPolymorphism, Single Nucleotide

Identifiers

PMID21041247
PMCPMC3795390
OpenAlexW2155662148

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