Genetic correlations among psychiatric and immune-related phenotypes based on genome-wide association data.
By
Daniel S. Tylee,
Jiayin Sun,
Jonathan Hess,
Muhammad A. Tahir,
Esha Sharma,
Rainer Malik,
Bradford B. Worrall,
Andrew J. Levine,
Jeremy J. Martinson,
Sergey Nejentsev,
Doug Speed,
Annegret Fischer,
Eric Mick,
Brian R. Walker,
Andrew Crawford,
Struan F.A. Grant,
Constantin Polychronakos,
Jonathan P. Bradfield,
Patrick M. A. Sleiman,
Hakon Hakonarson,
Eva Ellinghaus,
James T Elder,
Lam C Tsoi,
Richard Trembath,
JN Barker,
Andre Franke,
Abbas Dehghan,
The 23andMe Research Team,
The Inflammation Working Group of the CHARGE Consortium, The METASTROKE Consortium of the International Stroke Genetics Consortium, The Netherlands Twin Registry, The neuroCHARGE Working Group, The Eating Disorders Working Groups of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium, The Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Tourette Syndrome Working Group,
Stephen V. Faraone,
Stephen J Glatt
Posted 21 Aug 2016
bioRxiv DOI: 10.1101/070730
Individuals with psychiatric disorders have elevated rates of autoimmune comorbidity and altered immune signaling. It is unclear whether these altered immunological states have a shared genetic basis with those psychiatric disorders. The present study sought to use existing summary-level data from previous genome-wide association studies (GWASs) to determine if commonly varying single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are shared between psychiatric and immune-related phenotypes. We estimated heritability and examined pair-wise genetic correlations using the linkage disequilibrium score regression (LDSC) and heritability estimation from summary statistics (HESS) methods. Using LDSC, we observed significant genetic correlations between immune-related disorders and several psychiatric disorders, including anorexia nervosa, attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder, bipolar disorder, major depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, schizophrenia, smoking behavior, and Tourette syndrome. Loci significantly mediating genetic correlations were identified for schizophrenia when analytically paired with Crohns disease, primary biliary cirrhosis, systemic lupus erythematosus, and ulcerative colitis. We report significantly correlated loci and highlight those containing genome-wide associations and candidate genes for respective disorders. We also used the LDSC method to characterize genetic correlations amongst the immune-related phenotypes. We discuss our findings in the context of relevant genetic and epidemiological literature, as well as the limitations and caveats of the study.
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