Journal article
Biological insights from 108 schizophrenia-associated genetic loci
Stephan Ripke, Benjamin M Neale, Aiden Corvin, James TR Walters, Kai-How Farh, Peter A Holmans, Phil Lee, Brendan Bulik-Sullivan, David A Collier, Hailiang Huang, Tune H Pers, Ingrid Agartz, Esben Agerbo, Margot Albus, Madeline Alexander, Farooq Amin, Silviu A Bacanu, Martin Begemann, Richard A Belliveau, Judit Bene Show all
Nature | NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP | Published : 2014
DOI: 10.1038/nature13595
Abstract
Schizophrenia is a highly heritable disorder. Genetic risk is conferred by a large number of alleles, including common alleles of small effect that might be detected by genome-wide association studies. Here we report a multi-stage schizophrenia genome-wide association study of up to 36,989 cases and 113,075 controls. We identify 128 independent associations spanning 108 conservatively defined loci that meet genome-wide significance, 83 of which have not been previously reported. Associations were enriched among genes expressed in brain, providing biological plausibility for the findings. Many findings have the potential to provide entirely new insights into aetiology, but associations at DRD..
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Funding Acknowledgements
Core funding for the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium is from the US National Institute of Mental Health (U01 MH094421). We thank T. Lehner (NIMH). The work of the contributing groups was supported by numerous grants from governmental and charitable bodies as well as philanthropic donation. Details are provided in the Supplementary Notes. Membership of the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium and of the Psychosis Endophenotype International Consortium are provided in the Supplementary Notes.