SynthesisBiological psychiatry2017
An Analysis of Two Genome-wide Association Meta-analyses Identifies a New Locus for Broad Depression Phenotype.
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102 authors at 20 institutions in 17 countries.
Nese DirekDepartment of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam; Department of Psychiatry, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey.
Stephanie WilliamsDepartment of Genetics, Genomic Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Jennifer A SmithDepartment of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Stephan RipkeStanley Center for Psychiatric Research, The Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge; Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité, Campus Mitte, Berlin.
Tracy AirDiscipline of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia.
Azmeraw T AmareDepartment of Epidemiology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen; Discipline of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia.
Najaf AminGenetic Epidemiology Unit, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam.
Bernhard T BauneDiscipline of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia.
David A BennettRush Alzheimer's Disease Center & Department of Neurological Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois.
Douglas H R BlackwoodDivision of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh.
Dorret BoomsmaDepartment of Biological Psychology, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Gerome BreenMRC Social, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry Centre Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London.
Henriette N ButtenschønTranslational Neuropsychiatry Unit, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus; The Lundbeck Foundation Initiative for Integrative Psychiatric Research, Aarhus.
Enda M ByrneQueensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland.
Anders D BørglumDepartment of Biomedicine and Centre for Integrative Sequencing, Aarhus University, Aarhus; The Lundbeck Foundation Initiative for Integrative Psychiatric Research, Aarhus.
Enrique CastelaoDepartment of Psychiatry, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne.
Sven CichonInstitute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, Bonn; Department of Genomics, Life & Brain Center, Bonn; Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Research Centre Jülich, Jülich; Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Toni-Kim ClarkeDivision of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh.
Marilyn C CornelisDepartment of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois.
Udo DannlowskiDepartment of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Münster, Münster.
Philip L De JagerProgram in Medical and Population Genetics, The Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge; Department of Neurology, Program in Translational NeuroPsychiatric Genomics, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston; Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston.
Ayse DemirkanGenetic Epidemiology Unit, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam.
Enrico DomeniciRoche Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development, Neuroscience, Ophthalmology and Rare Diseases Discovery & Translational Medicine Area, Roche Innovation Center Basel, F Hoffman-La Roche Ltd., Basel, Switzerland; Centre for Integrative Biology, University of Trento, Trento, Italy.
Cornelia M van DuijnGenetic Epidemiology Unit, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam.
Erin C DunnStanley Center for Psychiatric Research, The Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge; Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit, Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston.
Johan G ErikssonNational Institute for Health and Welfare, Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, Helsinki; Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, University of Helsinki, Helsinki; Unit of General Practice, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki; Folkhalsan Research Centre, Helsinki; Vasa Central Hospital, Vasa, Finland.
Tonu EskoProgram in Medical and Populational Genetics, The Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge; Division of Endocrinology, Boston Children's Hospital, Cambridge; Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston; Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia.
Jessica D FaulInstitute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Luigi FerrucciTranslational Gerontology Branch, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, Maryland.
Myriam FornageBrown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas.
Eco de GeusDepartment of Biological Psychology, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Michael GillDepartment of Psychiatry, Trinity Centre for Health Science, Dublin, Ireland.
Scott D GordonQIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane.
Hans Jörgen GrabeDepartment of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Helios Hospital Stralsund, Munich; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medicine Greifswald, Munich; German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Site Rostock/Greifswald, Munich.
Gerard van GrootheestDepartment of Psychiatry, Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam and EMGO Institute of Health and Care Research, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Steven P HamiltonDepartment of Psychiatry, Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Medical Center, San Francisco.
Catharina A HartmanDepartment of Psychiatry, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen.
Andrew C HeathDepartment of Psychiatry, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri.
Karin HekDepartment of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam; Department of Psychiatry, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam.
Albert HofmanDepartment of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam.
Georg HomuthInterfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, University of Greifswald, Munich.
Carsten HornRoche Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development, Neuroscience, Ophthalmology and Rare Diseases Discovery & Translational Medicine Area, Roche Innovation Center Basel, F Hoffman-La Roche Ltd., Basel, Switzerland.
Jouke Jan HottengaDepartment of Biological Psychology, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Sharon L R KardiaDepartment of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Stefan KloiberMax Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich.
Karestan KoenenDepartment of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York.
Zoltán KutalikInstitute of Social and Preventive Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne.
Karl-Heinz LadwigDepartment of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Munich; Institute of Epidemiology II, Mental Health Research Unit, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg.
Jari LahtiFolkhalsan Research Centre, Helsinki; Institute of Behavioural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki.
Douglas F LevinsonDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California.
Cathryn M LewisMRC Social, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry Centre Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London.
Glyn LewisDivision of Psychiatry, University College London, London.
Qingqin S LiJanssen Research & Development LLC, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
David J LlewellynUniversity of Exeter Medical School, Exeter.
Susanne LucaeMax Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich.
Kathryn L LunettaDepartment of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Framingham, Massachusetts; Boston University and National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts.
Donald J MacIntyreDivision of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh.
Pamela MaddenDepartment of Psychiatry, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri.
Nicholas G MartinQIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane.
Andrew M McIntoshDivision of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh.
Andres MetspaluEstonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia; Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia.
Yuri MilaneschiDepartment of Psychiatry, Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam and EMGO Institute of Health and Care Research, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Grant W MontgomeryQIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane.
Ole MorsThe Lundbeck Foundation Initiative for Integrative Psychiatric Research, Aarhus; Research Department P, Aarhus University Hospital, Risskov, Denmark.
Thomas H MosleyDepartment of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi.
Joanne M MurabitoDepartment of Medicine, Section of General Internal Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston; Boston University and National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts.
Bertram Müller-MyhsokMax Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich; Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology, Munich; University of Liverpool, Institute of Translational Medicine, Liverpool.
Markus M NöthenInstitute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, Bonn; Department of Genomics, Life & Brain Center, Bonn.
Dale R NyholtQIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane; Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland.
Michael C O'DonovanMRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, Institute of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom.
Brenda W PenninxDepartment of Psychiatry, Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam and EMGO Institute of Health and Care Research, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Michele L PergadiaDepartment of Psychiatry, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri; Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida.
Roy PerlisCenter for Experimental Drugs and Diagnostics, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston.
James B PotashDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa.
Martin PreisigDepartment of Psychiatry, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne.
Shaun M PurcellDivision of Psychiatric Genomics, Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York.
Jorge A QuirozSolid GT, Boston; Roche Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development, Neuroscience, Ophthalmology and Rare Diseases Discovery & Translational Medicine Area, Roche Innovation Center Basel, F Hoffman-La Roche Ltd., Basel, Switzerland.
Katri RäikkönenInstitute of Behavioural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki.
John P RiceDepartment of Psychiatry, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri.
Marcella RietschelDepartment of Genetic Epidemiology in Psychiatry, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim/Heidelberg University, Mannheim.
Margarita RiveraMRC Social, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry Centre Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London; CIBERSAM-Universidad de Granada, Hospitales Universitarios de Granada/Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain; Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria ibs.GRANADA, Hospitales Universitarios de Granada/Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain.
Thomas G SchulzeInstitute of Psychiatric Phenomics and Genomics, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
Jianxin ShiDivision of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
Stanley ShynGroup Health, Seattle, Washington.
Grant C SinnamonDepartment of Psychiatry and Psychiatric Neuroscience, School of Medicine and Dentistry, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia.
Johannes H SmitDepartment of Psychiatry, Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam and EMGO Institute of Health and Care Research, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Jordan W SmollerStanley Center for Psychiatric Research, The Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge; Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit, Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston.
Harold SniederUnit of Genetic Epidemiology & Bioinformatics, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen.
Toshiko TanakaTranslational Gerontology Branch, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, Maryland.
Katherine E TanseyMRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, Institute of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom.
Alexander TeumerInstitute for Community Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Munich.
Rudolf UherMRC Social, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry Centre Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London; Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Daniel UmbrichtRoche Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development, Neuroscience, Ophthalmology and Rare Diseases Discovery & Translational Medicine Area, Roche Innovation Center Basel, F Hoffman-La Roche Ltd., Basel, Switzerland.
Sandra Van der AuweraDepartment of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medicine Greifswald, Munich; German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Site Rostock/Greifswald, Munich.
Erin B WareDepartment of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
David R WeirInstitute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Myrna M WeissmanCollege of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, New York.
Gonneke WillemsenDepartment of Biological Psychology, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Jingyun YangRush Alzheimer's Disease Center & Department of Neurological Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois.
Wei ZhaoDepartment of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Henning TiemeierDepartment of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam; Department of Psychiatry, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam. Electronic address: h.tiemeier@erasmusmc.nl.
Patrick F SullivanDepartment of Psychiatry, Genomic Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Center for Psychiatric Genomics, Genomic Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden.
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Funding
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Abstract
backgroundThe genetics of depression has been explored in genome-wide association studies that focused on either major depressive disorder or depressive symptoms with mostly negative findings. A broad depression phenotype including both phenotypes has not been tested previously using a genome-wide association approach. We aimed to identify genetic polymorphisms significantly associated with a broad phenotype from depressive symptoms to major depressive disorder.
methodsWe analyzed two prior studies of 70,017 participants of European ancestry from general and clinical populations in the discovery stage. We performed a replication meta-analysis of 28,328 participants. Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)-based heritability and genetic correlations were calculated using linkage disequilibrium score regression. Discovery and replication analyses were performed using a p-value-based meta-analysis. Lifetime major depressive disorder and depressive symptom scores were used as the outcome measures.
resultsThe SNP-based heritability of major depressive disorder was 0.21 (SE = 0.02), the SNP-based heritability of depressive symptoms was 0.04 (SE = 0.01), and their genetic correlation was 1.001 (SE = 0.2). We found one genome-wide significant locus related to the broad depression phenotype (rs9825823, chromosome 3: 61,082,153, p = 8.2 × 10
conclusionsThis large study identified a new locus for depression. Our results support a continuum between depressive symptoms and major depressive disorder. A phenotypically more inclusive approach may help to achieve the large sample sizes needed to detect susceptibility loci for depression.
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