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ArticleNeuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology2022

Genetic evidence for a potential causal relationship between insomnia symptoms and suicidal behavior: a Mendelian randomization study.

Malik Nassan, Iyas Daghlas, John W Winkelman, Hassan S Dashti, International Suicide Genetics Consortium, Richa Saxena

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Article in Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Genetics and epigenetics of self-injurious thoughts and behaviors: Systematic review of the suicide literature and methodological considerations.American journal of medical genetics. Part B, Neuropsychiatric genetics : the official publication of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Malik Nassan *Division of Sleep Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Iyas Daghlas *Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
John W WinkelmanDepartments of Psychiatry and Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Hassan S DashtiCenter for Genomic Medicine and Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
International Suicide Genetics Consortium
Richa SaxenaCenter for Genomic Medicine and Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. rsaxena@mgh.harvard.edu.
Massachusetts General Hospital · USHarvard University · US

Funding

Dissecting Causal Role of Insomnia in Cardiovascular DiseaseR01HL146751 · NHLBI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI MELKANI, GIRISH C., SAXENA, RICHA · 2020 to 2023
$3.6M
Big Omics Data Engine 2 SupercomputerS10OD026880 · OD · ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI · PI KOVATCH, PATRICIA · 2019 to 2019
$2.0M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL146751NIH HHS S10 OD026880
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Insomnia and restless leg syndrome (RLS) are associated with increased risk for suicidal behavior (SB), which is often comorbid with mood or thought disorders; however, it is unclear whether these relationships are causal. We performed a two-sample Mendelian randomization study using summary-level genetic associations with insomnia symptoms and RLS against the outcomes of risk of major depressive disorder (MDD), bipolar disorder (BP), schizophrenia (SCZ), and SB. The inverse-variance weighted method was used in the main analysis. We performed replication and sensitivity analyses to examine the robustness of the results. We identified outcome cohorts for MDD (n = 170,756 cases/329,443 controls), BP (n = 20,352/31,358), SCZ (n = 69,369/236,642), SB-Cohort-2019 (n = 6569/14,996 all with MDD, BP or SCZ; and SB within individual disease categories), and SB-Cohort-2020 (n = 29,782/519,961). Genetically proxied liability to insomnia symptoms significantly associated with increased risk of MDD (odds ratio (OR) = 1.23, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 1.2-1.26, P = 1.37 × 10

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Major Depressive DisorderSleep Initiation and Maintenance DisordersGenome-Wide Association StudyHumansMendelian Randomization AnalysisPolymorphism, Single NucleotideSuicidal Ideation

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PMID35538198
PMCPMC9283512
OpenAlexW4280538737

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