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Genome-wide association study identifies five new schizophrenia loci

Stephan Ripke, Alan R Sanders, Kenneth S Kendler, Douglas F Levinson, Pamela Sklar, Peter A Holmans, Dan-Yu Lin, Jubao Duan, Roel A Ophoff, Ole A Andreassen, Edward Scolnick, Sven Cichon, David St Clair, Aiden Corvin, Hugh Gurling, Thomas Werge, Dan Rujescu, Douglas HR Blackwood, Carlos N Pato, Anil K Malhotra Show all

NATURE GENETICS | NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP | Published : 2011

Abstract

We examined the role of common genetic variation in schizophrenia in a genome-wide association study of substantial size: a stage 1 discovery sample of 21,856 individuals of European ancestry and a stage 2 replication sample of 29,839 independent subjects. The combined stage 1 and 2 analysis yielded genome-wide significant associations with schizophrenia for seven loci, five of which are new (1p21.3, 2q32.3, 8p23.2, 8q21.3 and 10q24.32-q24.33) and two of which have been previously implicated (6p21.32-p22.1 and 18q21.2). The strongest new finding (P = 1.6 × 10(-11)) was with rs1625579 within an intron of a putative primary transcript for MIR137 (microRNA 137), a known regulator of neuronal de..

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Funding Acknowledgements

We thank the study participants and the research staff at the many study sites. Over 40 US National Institutes of Health grants and similar numbers of government grants from other countries, along with substantial private and foundation support, enabled this work. We greatly appreciate the sustained efforts of T. Lehner (National Institute of Mental Health) on behalf of the Schizophrenia Psychiatric Genome-Wide Association Study (GWAS) Consortium (PGC). Detailed acknowledgments, including grant support, are listed in the Supplementary Note.