Genetic correlations and genome-wide associations of cortical structure in general population samples of 22,824 adults

Edith Hofer; Gennady V Roshchupkin; Hieab HH Adams; Maria J Knol; Honghuang Lin; Shuo Li; Habil Zare; Shahzad Ahmad; Nicola J Armstrong; Claudia L Satizabal; Manon Bernard; Joshua C Bis; Nathan A Gillespie; Michelle Luciano; Aniket Mishra; Markus Scholz; Alexander Teumer; Rui Xia; Xueqiu Jian; Thomas H Mosley; Yasaman Saba; Lukas Pirpamer; Stephan Seiler; James T Becker; Owen Carmichael; Jerome I Rotter; Bruce M Psaty; Oscar L Lopez; Najaf Amin; Sven J van der Lee; Qiong Yang; Jayandra J Himali; Pauline Maillard; Alexa S Beiser; Charles DeCarli; Sherif Karama; Lindsay Lewis; Mat Harris; Mark E Bastin; Ian J Deary; A Veronica Witte; Frauke Beyer; Markus Loeffler; Karen A Mather; Peter R Schofield; Anbupalam Thalamuthu; John B Kwok; Margaret J Wright; David Ames; Julian Trollor; Jiyang Jiang; Henry Brodaty; Wei Wen; Meike W Vernooij; Albert Hofman; Andre G Uitterlinden; Wiro J Niessen; Katharina Wittfeld; Robin Buelow; Uwe Voelker; Zdenka Pausova; G Bruce Pike; Sophie Maingault; Fabrice Crivello; Christophe Tzourio; Philippe Amouyel; Bernard Mazoyer; Michael C Neale; Carol E Franz; Michael J Lyons; Matthew S Panizzon; Ole A Andreassen; Anders M Dale; Mark Logue; Katrina L Grasby; Neda Jahanshad; Jodie N Painter; Lucia Colodro-Conde; Janita Bralten; Derrek P Hibar; Penelope A Lind; Fabrizio Pizzagalli; Jason L Stein; Paul M Thompson; Sarah E Medland; Perminder S Sachdev; William S Kremen; Joanna M Wardlaw; Arno Villringer; Cornelia M van Duijn; Hans J Grabe; William T Longstreth; Myriam Fornage; Tomas Paus; Stephanie Debette; M Arfan Ikram; Helena Schmidt; Reinhold Schmidt; Sudha Seshadri

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Genetic correlations and genome-wide associations of cortical structure in general population samples of 22,824 adults

Edith Hofer, Gennady V Roshchupkin, Hieab HH Adams, Maria J Knol, Honghuang Lin, Shuo Li, Habil Zare, Shahzad Ahmad, Nicola J Armstrong, Claudia L Satizabal, Manon Bernard, Joshua C Bis, Nathan A Gillespie, Michelle Luciano, Aniket Mishra, Markus Scholz, Alexander Teumer, Rui Xia, Xueqiu Jian, Thomas H Mosley Show all

NATURE COMMUNICATIONS | NATURE RESEARCH | Published : 2020

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-18367-y

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Abstract

Cortical thickness, surface area and volumes vary with age and cognitive function, and in neurological and psychiatric diseases. Here we report heritability, genetic correlations and genome-wide associations of these cortical measures across the whole cortex, and in 34 anatomically predefined regions. Our discovery sample comprises 22,824 individuals from 20 cohorts within the Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology (CHARGE) consortium and the UK Biobank. We identify genetic heterogeneity between cortical measures and brain regions, and 160 genome-wide significant associations pointing to wnt/β-catenin, TGF-β and sonic hedgehog pathways. There is enrichment for genes inv..

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