Trial reportJAMA psychiatry2018
Association of Polygenic Score for Schizophrenia and HLA Antigen and Inflammation Genes With Response to Lithium in Bipolar Affective Disorder: A Genome-Wide Association Study.
Trial report in JAMA psychiatry, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 100 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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100 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 148 citations in OpenAlex.
- Genome-wide association analyses of borderline personality disorder identify 11 loci and highlight shared risk with mental and somatic disorders.Nature genetics · 2026Pooled it
- Pharmacogenomic scores in psychiatry: systematic review of current evidence.Translational psychiatry · 2024Pooled it
- Review and Consensus on Pharmacogenomic Testing in Psychiatry.Pharmacopsychiatry · 2021Pooled it
- A systems biology approach uncovers cell-specific gene regulatory effects of genetic associations in multiple sclerosis.Nature communications · 2019Pooled it
- The association of obesity and coronary artery disease genes with response to SSRIs treatment in major depression.Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2019Pooled it
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- Association between Copy Number Variation and Response to Social Skills Training in Autism Spectrum Disorder.Scientific reports · 2019Trial
- Response to therapeutic sleep deprivation: a naturalistic study of clinical and genetic factors and post-treatment depressive symptom trajectory.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2018Trial
- Identification of comprehensive genetic factors, pathways, and shared genetic architecture of putamen volume in adolescent cohort.Translational psychiatry · 2026Article
- Polygenic risk scores in pharmacogenomics: methodological challenges, current applications, and perspectives for clinical implementation.Medizinische Genetik : Mitteilungsblatt des Berufsverbandes Medizinische Genetik e.V · 2026Article
- Lithium Therapeutic Functions: An Update on Pharmacokinetics, Pathophysiological Mechanisms of Action, Toxicity, and Side Effects.Molecular neurobiology · 2026Review
- Genetics to Improve Outcomes in Schizophrenia (GENios): A within-case molecular genetic study protocol.PloS one · 2026Article
- Toll-like receptor 3 (TLR 3) polymorphisms predisposition to schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.Molecular biology reports · 2025Article
- Polygenic Contributions to Lithium Augmentation Outcomes in Unipolar Depression.JAMA psychiatry · 2025Article
- A genome-wide association study identified 10 novel genomic loci associated with intrinsic capacity.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2025Article
- Genetics of Response to ECT, TMS, Ketamine and Esketamine.American journal of medical genetics. Part B, Neuropsychiatric genetics : the official publication of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics · 2025Review
- Pathway-Specific Polygenic Scores for Predicting Clinical Lithium Treatment Response in Patients With Bipolar Disorder.Biological psychiatry global open science · 2025Article
- The ADCY1-mediated cAMP signaling pathway mediates functional effects of montelukast treatment in brain organoids.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2025Article
- Translating Molecular Psychiatry: From Biomarkers to Personalized Therapies-A Narrative Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- The Mechanisms of Lithium Action: The Old and New Findings.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
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Abstract
Importance: Lithium is a first-line mood stabilizer for the treatment of bipolar affective disorder (BPAD). However, the efficacy of lithium varies widely, with a nonresponse rate of up to 30%. Biological response markers are lacking. Genetic factors are thought to mediate treatment response to lithium, and there is a previously reported genetic overlap between BPAD and schizophrenia (SCZ). Objectives: To test whether a polygenic score for SCZ is associated with treatment response to lithium in BPAD and to explore the potential molecular underpinnings of this association. Design, Setting, and Participants: A total of 2586 patients with BPAD who had undergone lithium treatment were genotyped and assessed for long-term response to treatment between 2008 and 2013. Weighted SCZ polygenic scores were computed at different P value thresholds using summary statistics from an international multicenter genome-wide association study (GWAS) of 36 989 individuals with SCZ and genotype data from patients with BPAD from the Consortium on Lithium Genetics. For functional exploration, a cross-trait meta-GWAS and pathway analysis was performed, combining GWAS summary statistics on SCZ and response to treatment with lithium. Data analysis was performed from September 2016 to February 2017. Main Outcomes and Measures: Treatment response to lithium was defined on both the categorical and continuous scales using the Retrospective Criteria of Long-Term Treatment Response in Research Subjects with Bipolar Disorder score. The effect measures include odds ratios and the proportion of variance explained. Results: Of the 2586 patients in the study (mean [SD] age, 47.2 [13.9] years), 1478 were women and 1108 were men. The polygenic score for SCZ was inversely associated with lithium treatment response in the categorical outcome, at a threshold P < 5 × 10-2. Patients with BPAD who had a low polygenic load for SCZ responded better to lithium, with odds ratios for lithium response ranging from 3.46 (95% CI, 1.42-8.41) at the first decile to 2.03 (95% CI, 0.86-4.81) at the ninth decile, compared with the patients in the 10th decile of SCZ risk. In the cross-trait meta-GWAS, 15 genetic loci that may have overlapping effects on lithium treatment response and susceptibility to SCZ were identified. Functional pathway and network analysis of these loci point to the HLA antigen complex and inflammatory cytokines. Conclusions and Relevance: This study provides evidence for a negative association between high genetic loading for SCZ and poor response to lithium in patients with BPAD. These results suggest the potential for translational research aimed at personalized prescribing of lithium.
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