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SynthesisBiological psychiatry2018

Genome-wide Association Study of Dimensional Psychopathology Using Electronic Health Records.

Thomas H McCoy, Victor M Castro, Kamber L Hart, Amelia M Pellegrini, Sheng Yu, Tianxi Cai, Roy H Perlis

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Synthesis in Biological psychiatry, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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22 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Thomas H McCoyCenter for Quantitative Health and Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. Electronic address: thmccoy@partners.org.
Victor M CastroCenter for Quantitative Health and Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Kamber L HartCenter for Quantitative Health and Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Amelia M PellegriniCenter for Quantitative Health and Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Sheng YuTsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Tianxi CaiHarvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
Roy H PerlisCenter for Quantitative Health and Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.

Funding

Research ProjectP50MH106933 · NIMH · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI KOHANE, ISAAC S. · 2014 to 2018
$17.0M
VERITY: Value and Evidence in Rheumatology using bioInformaTics, and advanced analYticsP30AR072577 · NIAMS · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI Daniel Hal Solomon · 2017 to 2026
$9.8M
Natural language processing for characterizing psychopathologyR01MH106577 · NIMH · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI PERLIS, ROY H. · 2016 to 2018
$1.2M
NIAMS NIH HHS P30 AR072577NIMH NIH HHS P50 MH106933NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH106577
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundGenetic studies of neuropsychiatric disease strongly suggest an overlap in liability. There are growing efforts to characterize these diseases dimensionally rather than categorically, but the extent to which such dimensional models correspond to biology is unknown.

methodsWe applied a newly developed natural language processing method to extract five symptom dimensions based on the National Institute of Mental Health Research Domain Criteria definitions from narrative hospital discharge notes in a large biobank. We conducted a genome-wide association study to examine whether common variants were associated with each of these dimensions as quantitative traits.

resultsAmong 4687 individuals, loci in three of five domains exceeded a genome-wide threshold for statistical significance. These included a locus spanning the neocortical development genes RFPL3 and RFPL3S for arousal (p = 2.29 × 10

conclusionsNatural language processing identifies dimensional phenotypes that may facilitate the discovery of common genetic variation that is relevant to psychopathology.

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Genome-Wide Association StudyArousalCarrier ProteinsCognitionCohort StudiesElectronic Health RecordsFemaleGenotypeHospitalizationHumansMaleNatural Language ProcessingPsychopathologyReceptors, Formyl PeptideUbiquitin-Protein LigasesCarrier ProteinsFPR3 protein, humanReceptors, Formyl PeptideRFPL3 protein, humanRFPL4A protein, humanUbiquitin-Protein LigasesArousalGeneticGenomicSocialTransdiagnosticValence

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PMID29496196
PMCPMC5972060

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