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Exome sequencing in bipolar disorder identifies AKAP11 as a risk gene shared with schizophrenia

Palmer, Duncan S; Howrigan, Daniel P; Chapman, Sinéad B; Adolfsson, Rolf; Bass, Nick; Blackwood, Douglas; Boks, Marco PM; ... Neale, Benjamin M; + view all (2022) Exome sequencing in bipolar disorder identifies AKAP11 as a risk gene shared with schizophrenia. Nature Genetics , 54 pp. 541-547. 10.1038/s41588-022-01034-x. Green open access

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Abstract

We report results from the Bipolar Exome (BipEx) collaboration analysis of whole-exome sequencing of 13,933 patients with bipolar disorder (BD) matched with 14,422 controls. We find an excess of ultra-rare protein-truncating variants (PTVs) in patients with BD among genes under strong evolutionary constraint in both major BD subtypes. We find enrichment of ultra-rare PTVs within genes implicated from a recent schizophrenia exome meta-analysis (SCHEMA; 24,248 cases and 97,322 controls) and among binding targets of CHD8. Genes implicated from genome-wide association studies (GWASs) of BD, however, are not significantly enriched for ultra-rare PTVs. Combining gene-level results with SCHEMA, AKAP11 emerges as a definitive risk gene (odds ratio (OR) = 7.06, P = 2.83 × 10-9). At the protein level, AKAP-11 interacts with GSK3B, the hypothesized target of lithium, a primary treatment for BD. Our results lend support to BD's polygenicity, demonstrating a role for rare coding variation as a significant risk factor in BD etiology.

Type: Article
Title: Exome sequencing in bipolar disorder identifies AKAP11 as a risk gene shared with schizophrenia
Location: United States
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1038/s41588-022-01034-x
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-022-01034-x
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions.
UCL classification: UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences
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URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10146904
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