UCL Discovery
UCL home » Library Services » Electronic resources » UCL Discovery

Runs of homozygosity implicate autozygosity as a schizophrenia risk factor

Keller, MC; Simonson, MA; Ripke, S; Neale, BM; Gejman, PV; Howrigan, DP; Lee, SH; ... The Schizophrenia Psychiatric Genome-Wide Association Study Cons; + view all (2012) Runs of homozygosity implicate autozygosity as a schizophrenia risk factor. PLoS Genetics , 8 (4) , Article e1002656. 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002656. Green open access

[thumbnail of journal.pgen.1002656.pdf]
Preview
PDF
journal.pgen.1002656.pdf

Download (534kB)

Abstract

Autozygosity occurs when two chromosomal segments that are identical from a common ancestor are inherited from each parent. This occurs at high rates in the offspring of mates who are closely related (inbreeding), but also occurs at lower levels among the offspring of distantly related mates. Here, we use runs of homozygosity in genome-wide SNP data to estimate the proportion of the autosome that exists in autozygous tracts in 9,388 cases with schizophrenia and 12,456 controls. We estimate that the odds of schizophrenia increase by ~17% for every 1% increase in genome-wide autozygosity. This association is not due to one or a few regions, but results from many autozygous segments spread throughout the genome, and is consistent with a role for multiple recessive or partially recessive alleles in the etiology of schizophrenia. Such a bias towards recessivity suggests that alleles that increase the risk of schizophrenia have been selected against over evolutionary time.

Type: Article
Title: Runs of homozygosity implicate autozygosity as a schizophrenia risk factor
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002656
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1002656
Language: English
Additional information: © 2012 Keller et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Health Informatics
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL GOS Institute of Child Health
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL GOS Institute of Child Health > Genetics and Genomic Medicine Dept
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1395487
Downloads since deposit
97Downloads
Download activity - last month
Download activity - last 12 months
Downloads by country - last 12 months

Archive Staff Only

View Item View Item