rs12244388 - AS3MT, BORCS7-ASMT

Magnitude 2.2 · 8 studies on file

Reported associations

• Association of Schizophrenia Risk With Disordered Niacin Metabolism in an Indian Genome-wide Association Study. - JAMA psychiatry (2021) · Periyasamy S, John S, Padmavati R, Rajendren P, Thirunavukkarasu P, Gratten J, Vinkhuyzen A, McRae A, Holliday EG, Nyholt DR, Nancarrow D, Bakshi A, Hemani G, Nertney D, Smith H, Filippich C, Patel K, Fowdar J, McLean D, Tirupati S, Nagasundaram A, Gundugurti PR, Selvaraj K, Jegadeesan J, Jorde LB, Wray NR, Brown MA, Suetani R, Giacomotto J, Thara R, Mowry BJ · PubMed 31268507

  Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) in European populations have identified more than 100 schizophrenia-associated loci. A schizophrenia GWAS in a unique Indian population offers novel findings. To discover and functionally evaluate genetic loci for schizophrenia in a GWAS of a unique Indian population. This GWAS included a sample of affected individuals, family members, and unrelated cases and controls. Three thousand ninety-two individuals were recruited and diagnostically ascertained via medical records, hospitals, clinics, and clinical networks in Chennai and surrounding regions. Affected participants fulfilled DSM-IV diagnostic criteria for schizophrenia. Unrelated control participants had no personal or family history of psychotic disorder. Recruitment, genotyping, and analysis o

• Minimal phenotyping yields genome-wide association signals of low specificity for major depression - Unknown journal (n.d.) · Unknown authors · PubMed 32231276

  ABSTRACT: Minimal phenotyping refers to the reliance on the use of a small number of self-reported items for disease case identification, increasingly used in genome-wide association studies (GWAS). Here we report differences in genetic architecture between depression defined by minimal phenotyping and strictly defined major depressive disorder (MDD): the former has a lower genotype-derived heritability that cannot be explained by inclusion of milder cases and a higher proportion of the genome contributing to this shared genetic liability with other conditions than for strictly defined MDD. GWAS based on minimal phenotyping definitions preferentially identifies loci that are not specific to MDD, and, although it generates highly predictive polygenic risk scores, the predictive power can be

• Identifying loci with different allele frequencies among cases of eight psychiatric disorders using CC-GWAS - Unknown journal (n.d.) · Unknown authors · PubMed 33686288

  ABSTRACT: Psychiatric disorders are highly genetically correlated, but little research has been conducted on the genetic differences between disorders. We developed a new method (CC-GWAS) to test for differences in allele frequency among cases of two disorders using summary statistics from the respective case-control GWAS, transcending current methods that require individual-level data. Simulations and analytical computations confirm that CC-GWAS is well-powered with effective control of type I error. We applied CC-GWAS to publicly available summary statistics for schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder, and five other psychiatric disorders. CC-GWAS identified 196 independent case-case loci, including 72 CC-GWAS-specific loci that were not genome-wide significant in the

• Evidence for causal effects of lifetime smoking on risk for depression and schizophrenia: a Mendelian randomisation study - Unknown journal (n.d.) · Unknown authors · PubMed 31689377

  ABSTRACT: Background Smoking prevalence is higher amongst individuals with schizophrenia and depression compared with the general population. Mendelian randomisation (MR) can examine whether this association is causal using genetic variants identified in genome-wide association studies (GWAS). Methods We conducted two-sample MR to explore the bi-directional effects of smoking on schizophrenia and depression. For smoking behaviour, we used (1) smoking initiation GWAS from the GSCAN consortium and (2) we conducted our own GWAS of lifetime smoking behaviour (which captures smoking duration, heaviness and cessation) in a sample of 462690 individuals from the UK Biobank. We validated this instrument using positive control outcomes (e.g. lung cancer). For schizophrenia and depression we used GWA

• The Genetic and Neural Substrates of Externalizing Behavior - Unknown journal (n.d.) · Unknown authors · PubMed 36324656

  ABSTRACT: Background To gain more insight into the biological factors that mediate vulnerability to display externalizing behaviors, we leveraged genome-wide association study summary statistics on 13 externalizing phenotypes. Methods After data classification based on genetic resemblance, we performed multivariate genome-wide association meta-analyses and conducted extensive bioinformatic analyses, including genetic correlation assessment with other traits, Mendelian randomization, and gene set and gene expression analyses. Results The genetic data could be categorized into disruptive behavior (DB) and risk-taking behavior (RTB) factors, and subsequent genome-wide association meta-analyses provided association statistics for DB and RTB (Neff = 523,150 and 1,506,537, respectively), yieldi

• Association studies of up to 1.2 million individuals yield new insights into the genetic etiology of tobacco and alcohol use - Unknown journal (n.d.) · Unknown authors · PubMed 30643251

  ABSTRACT: Tobacco and alcohol use are leading causes of mortality that influence risk for many complex diseases and disorders. They are heritable and etiologically related behaviors that have been resistant to gene discovery efforts. In sample sizes up to 1.2 million individuals, we discovered 566 genetic variants in 406 loci associated with multiple stages of tobacco use (initiation, cessation, and heaviness) as well as alcohol use, with 150 loci evidencing pleiotropic association. Smoking phenotypes were positively genetically correlated with many health conditions, whereas alcohol use was negatively correlated with these conditions, such that increased genetic risk for alcohol use is associated with lower disease risk. We report evidence for the involvement of many systems in tobacco an

• Identification of 371 genetic variants for age at first sex and birth linked to externalising behaviour - Unknown journal (n.d.) · Unknown authors · PubMed 34211149

  ABSTRACT: Age at first sexual intercourse (AFS) and age at first birth (AFB) have implications for health and evolutionary fitness. In this genome-wide association study (AFS, N=387,338; AFB, N=542,901), we identify 371 SNPs, 11 sex-specific, with a 5-6% polygenic score (PGS) prediction. Heritability of AFB shifted from 9% [CI=4-14] for women born in 1940 to 22% [CI=19-25] in 1965. Signals are driven by the genetics of reproductive biology and externalising behaviour, with key genes related to follicle stimulating hormone (FSHB), implantation (ESR1), infertility, and spermatid differentiation. Our findings suggest that Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome may lead to later AFB, linking with infertility. Late AFB is associated with parental longevity, and reduced incidence of Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) a

• Principled distillation of UK Biobank phenotype data reveals underlying structure in human variation - Unknown journal (n.d.) · Unknown authors · PubMed 38965376

  ABSTRACT: Data within biobanks capture broad yet detailed indices of human variation, but biobank-wide insights can be difficult to extract due to complexity and scale. Here, using large-scale factor analysis, we distill hundreds of variables (diagnoses, assessments and survey items) into 35 latent constructs, using data from unrelated individuals with predominantly estimated European genetic ancestry in UK Biobank. These factors recapitulate known disease classifications, disentangle elements of socioeconomic status, highlight the relevance of psychiatric constructs to health and improve measurement of pro-health behaviours. We go on to demonstrate the power of this approach to clarify genetic signal, enhance discovery and identify associations between underlying phenotypic structure and

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