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ArticleTranslational psychiatry2021

Shared genetic architecture between neuroticism, coronary artery disease and cardiovascular risk factors.

Kristin Torgersen, Shahram Bahrami, Oleksandr Frei, Alexey Shadrin, Kevin S O' Connell, Olav B Smeland, John Munkhaugen, Srdjan Djurovic, Toril Dammen, Ole A Andreassen

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Article in Translational psychiatry, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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18 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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10 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Kristin TorgersenDepartment of Behavioral Medicine and Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway. k.s.torgersen@medisin.uio.no.ORCID 0000-0002-1181-4128
Shahram BahramiNORMENT: Norwegian Centre for Mental Disorders Research, University of Oslo and Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway.
Oleksandr FreiNORMENT: Norwegian Centre for Mental Disorders Research, University of Oslo and Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway.
Alexey ShadrinNORMENT: Norwegian Centre for Mental Disorders Research, University of Oslo and Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway.ORCID 0000-0002-7467-250X
Kevin S O' ConnellNORMENT: Norwegian Centre for Mental Disorders Research, University of Oslo and Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway.ORCID 0000-0002-6865-8795
Olav B SmelandNORMENT: Norwegian Centre for Mental Disorders Research, University of Oslo and Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway.ORCID 0000-0002-3761-5215
John MunkhaugenDepartment of Behavioral Medicine and Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
Srdjan DjurovicNORMENT: Norwegian Centre for Mental Disorders Research, University of Oslo and Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway.ORCID 0000-0002-8140-8061
Toril DammenDepartment of Behavioral Medicine and Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
Ole A AndreassenNORMENT: Norwegian Centre for Mental Disorders Research, University of Oslo and Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway. o.a.andreassen@medisin.uio.no.ORCID 0000-0002-4461-3568
Oslo University Hospital · NOUniversity of Oslo · NO

Funding

University of Oslo | Livsvitenskap, Universitetet i Oslo (UiO:Life Science) 847776
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neuroticism is associated with poor health, cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors and coronary artery disease (CAD). The conditional/conjunctional false discovery rate method (cond/conjFDR) was applied to genome wide association study (GWAS) summary statistics on neuroticism (n = 432,109), CAD (n = 184,305) and 12 CVD risk factors (n = 188,577-339,224) to investigate genetic overlap between neuroticism and CAD and CVD risk factors. CondFDR analyses identified 729 genomic loci associated with neuroticism after conditioning on CAD and CVD risk factors. The conjFDR analyses revealed 345 loci jointly associated with neuroticism and CAD (n = 30), body mass index (BMI) (n = 96) or another CVD risk factor (n = 1-60). Several loci were jointly associated with neuroticism and multiple CVD risk factors. Seventeen of the shared loci with CAD and 61 of the shared loci with BMI are novel for neuroticism. 21 of 30 (70%) neuroticism risk alleles were associated with higher CAD risk. Functional analyses of the genes mapped to the shared loci implicated cell division, nuclear receptor, elastic fiber formation as well as starch and sucrose metabolism pathways. Our results indicate polygenic overlap between neuroticism and CAD and CVD risk factors, suggesting that genetic factors may partly cause the comorbidity. This gives new insight into the shared molecular genetic basis of these conditions.

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Cardiovascular DiseasesCoronary Artery DiseaseGenetic LociGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseGenome-Wide Association StudyHeart Disease Risk FactorsHumansNeuroticismPolymorphism, Single NucleotideRisk Factors

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PMCPMC8257646
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