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ArticleSchizophrenia bulletin2018

Blood-Based Protein Changes in Childhood Are Associated With Increased Risk for Later Psychotic Disorder: Evidence From a Nested Case-Control Study of the ALSPAC Longitudinal Birth Cohort.

Jane A English, Lorna M Lopez, Aoife O'Gorman, Melanie Föcking, Magdalena Hryniewiecka, Caitriona Scaife, Sophie Sabherwal, Kieran Wynne, Patrick Dicker, Bart P F Rutten and 5 more

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Article in Schizophrenia bulletin, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

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15 authors.

Jane A EnglishDepartment of Psychiatry, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.
Lorna M LopezDepartment of Psychiatry, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.
Aoife O'GormanDepartment of Psychiatry, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.
Melanie FöckingDepartment of Psychiatry, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.
Magdalena HryniewieckaDepartment of Psychiatry, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.
Caitriona ScaifeSchool of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science, Conway Institute, University College Dublin (UCD), Dublin, Ireland.
Sophie SabherwalDepartment of Psychiatry, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.
Kieran WynneSchool of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science, Conway Institute, University College Dublin (UCD), Dublin, Ireland.
Patrick DickerDepartment of Epidemiology and Public Health, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.
Bart P F RuttenDepartment of Psychiatry & Neuropsychology, School for Mental Health and Neuroscience, Division of Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Glynn LewisDivision of Psychiatry, UCL, London, UK.
Stanley ZammitMRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics & Genomics, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK.
Mary CannonDepartment of Psychiatry, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.
Gerard CagneySchool of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science, Conway Institute, University College Dublin (UCD), Dublin, Ireland.
David R CotterDepartment of Psychiatry, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.

Funding

Medical Research Council G0701503Medical Research Council G0801418Medical Research Council G9815508Medical Research Council MC_PC_15018Medical Research Council MR/L010305/1Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The identification of early biological changes associated with the psychotic disorder (PD) is important as it may provide clues to the underlying pathophysiological mechanisms. We undertook the first proteomic profiling of blood plasma samples of children who later develop a PD. Participants were recruited from the UK Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) cohort who also participated in psychiatric assessment interviews at age 18. Protein expression levels at age 11 were compared between individuals who developed PD at age 18 (n = 37) with population-based age-matched controls (n = 38). Sixty out of 181 plasma proteins profiled were found to be differentially expressed (P < .05) in children with an outcome of the PD. Thirty-four of these proteins were found to be differentially expressed following correction for multiple comparisons. Pathway analysis implicated the complement and coagulation cascade. A second, targeted proteomic approach was used to verify these findings in age 11 plasma from subjects who reported psychotic experiences at age 18 (n = 40) in comparison to age-matched controls (n = 66). Our findings indicate that the complement and coagulation system is dysregulated in the blood during childhood before the development of the PD.

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AdolescentCase-Control StudiesChildFemaleHealth SurveysHumansLongitudinal StudiesMaleMetabolomeProtein Interaction MapsProteomeProteomicsPsychotic DisordersRiskSchizophreniaUnited KingdomProteome

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PMID29036721
PMCPMC5814944

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