de Jong, S;
Diniz, MJA;
Saloma, A;
Gadelha, A;
Santoro, ML;
Ota, VK;
Noto, C;
... Painter, JN; + view all
(2018)
Applying polygenic risk scoring for psychiatric disorders to a large family with bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder.
Communications Biology
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, Article 163. 10.1038/s42003-018-0155-y.
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Abstract
Psychiatric disorders are thought to have a complex genetic pathology consisting of interplay of common and rare variation. Traditionally, pedigrees are used to shed light on the latter only, while here we discuss the application of polygenic risk scores to also highlight patterns of common genetic risk. We analyze polygenic risk scores for psychiatric disorders in a large pedigree (n ~ 260) in which 30% of family members suffer from major depressive disorder or bipolar disorder. Studying patterns of assortative mating and anticipation, it appears increased polygenic risk is contributed by affected individuals who married into the family, resulting in an increasing genetic risk over generations. This may explain the observation of anticipation in mood disorders, whereby onset is earlier and the severity increases over the generations of a family. Joint analyses of rare and common variation may be a powerful way to understand the familial genetics of psychiatric disorders.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Applying polygenic risk scoring for psychiatric disorders to a large family with bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s42003-018-0155-y |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-018-0155-y |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by/4.0/. |
| Keywords: | Bipolar disorder, Depression, Genetic association study, Genetic linkage study |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Division of Psychiatry |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10081277 |
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