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ArticleSchizophrenia bulletin2014

Molecular validation of the schizophrenia spectrum.

T Bernard Bigdeli, Silviu-Alin Bacanu, Bradley T Webb, Dermot Walsh, F Anthony O'Neill, Ayman H Fanous, Brien P Riley, Kenneth S Kendler

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Article in Schizophrenia bulletin, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

24 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 44 citations in OpenAlex.

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  19. Genome-wide association study reveals greater polygenic loading for schizophrenia in cases with a family history of illness.American journal of medical genetics. Part B, Neuropsychiatric genetics : the official publication of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics · 2016
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

T Bernard Bigdeli*To whom correspondence should be addressed; Department of Psychiatry, Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics of VCU, Box 980126, Richmond, VA 23298-0126, US; tel: (804)-828-8590, fax: (804)-828-1471, e-mail: kendler@vcu.edu.
Silviu-Alin Bacanu
Bradley T Webb
Dermot Walsh
F Anthony O'Neill
Ayman H Fanous
Brien P Riley
Kenneth S Kendler
Virginia Commonwealth University · USHealth Research Board · IEQueen's University Belfast · GB

Funding

THE GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY OF SCHIZOPHRENIA IN IRELANDR01MH041953 · NIMH · VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY · PI KENDLER, KENNETH SEEDMAN · 1987 to 2008
$5.2M
A genome-wide association study of schizophrenia in IrelandR01MH083094 · NIMH · VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY · PI RILEY, BRIEN P · 2008 to 2011
$3.5M
Multicenter Genetic Studies of SchizophreniaR01MH068881 · NIMH · VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY · PI RILEY, BRIEN P · 2004 to 2007
$431k
Using genetic overlap to dissect the genetic architecture of psychiatric diseasesR21MH100560 · NIMH · VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY · PI BACANU, SILVIU-ALIN · 2014 to 2015
$358k
NIMH NIH HHS MH-068881NIMH NIH HHS MH-083094NIMH NIH HHS MH-41953NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH068881NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH083094NIMH NIH HHS R21 MH100560
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundEarly descriptive work and controlled family and adoption studies support the hypothesis that a range of personality and nonschizophrenic psychotic disorders aggregate in families of schizophrenic probands. Can we validate, using molecular polygene scores from genome-wide association studies (GWAS), this schizophrenia spectrum?

methodsThe predictive value of polygenic findings reported by the Psychiatric GWAS Consortium (PGC) was applied to 4 groups of relatives from the Irish Study of High-Density Schizophrenia Families (ISHDSF; N = 836) differing on their assignment within the schizophrenia spectrum. Genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphism data for affected and unaffected relatives were used to construct per-individual polygene risk scores based on the PGC stage-I results. We compared mean polygene scores in the ISHDSF with mean scores in ethnically matched population controls (N = 929).

resultsThe schizophrenia polygene score differed significantly across diagnostic categories and was highest in those with narrow schizophrenia spectrum, lowest in those with no psychiatric illness, and in-between in those classified in the intermediate, broad, and very broad schizophrenia spectrum. Relatives of all of these groups of affected subjects, including those with no diagnosis, had schizophrenia polygene scores significantly higher than the control sample.

conclusionsIn the relatives of high-density families, the observed pattern of enrichment of molecular indices of schizophrenia risk suggests an underlying, continuous liability distribution and validates, using aggregate common risk alleles, a genetic basis for the schizophrenia spectrum disorders. In addition, as predicted by genetic theory, nonpsychotic members of multiply-affected schizophrenia families are significantly enriched for replicated, polygenic risk variants compared with the general population.

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Genome-Wide Association StudyPedigreeGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseGenotypeHumansIrelandMultifactorial InheritanceNorthern IrelandPolymorphism, Single NucleotidePredictive Value of TestsSchizophreniaGWASpolygene scoreschizophreniaschizophrenia spectrum

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PMID23970557
PMCPMC3885304
OpenAlexW2160734775

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