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    GWAS Meta-Analysis of Suicide Attempt: Identification of 12 Genome-Wide Significant Loci and Implication of Genetic Risks for Specific Health Factors.
    (The American journal of psychiatry, 2023-10) Docherty, Anna R; Mullins, Niamh; Ashley-Koch, Allison E; Qin, Xuejun; Coleman, Jonathan RI; Shabalin, Andrey; Kang, JooEun; Murnyak, Balasz; Wendt, Frank; Adams, Mark; Campos, Adrian I; DiBlasi, Emily; Fullerton, Janice M; Kranzler, Henry R; Bakian, Amanda V; Monson, Eric T; Rentería, Miguel E; Walss-Bass, Consuelo; Andreassen, Ole A; Behera, Chittaranjan; Bulik, Cynthia M; Edenberg, Howard J; Kessler, Ronald C; Mann, J John; Nurnberger, John I; Pistis, Giorgio; Streit, Fabian; Ursano, Robert J; Polimanti, Renato; Dennis, Michelle; Garrett, Melanie; Hair, Lauren; Harvey, Philip; Hauser, Elizabeth R; Hauser, Michael A; Huffman, Jennifer; Jacobson, Daniel; Madduri, Ravi; McMahon, Benjamin; Oslin, David W; Trafton, Jodie; Awasthi, Swapnil; Berrettini, Wade H; Bohus, Martin; Chang, Xiao; Chen, Hsi-Chung; Chen, Wei J; Christensen, Erik D; Crow, Scott; Duriez, Philibert; Edwards, Alexis C; Fernández-Aranda, Fernando; Galfalvy, Hanga; Gandal, Michael; Gorwood, Philip; Guo, Yiran; Hafferty, Jonathan D; Hakonarson, Hakon; Halmi, Katherine A; Hishimoto, Akitoyo; Jain, Sonia; Jamain, Stéphane; Jiménez-Murcia, Susana; Johnson, Craig; Kaplan, Allan S; Kaye, Walter H; Keel, Pamela K; Kennedy, James L; Kim, Minsoo; Klump, Kelly L; Levey, Daniel F; Li, Dong; Liao, Shih-Cheng; Lieb, Klaus; Lilenfeld, Lisa; Marshall, Christian R; Mitchell, James E; Okazaki, Satoshi; Otsuka, Ikuo; Pinto, Dalila; Powers, Abigail; Ramoz, Nicolas; Ripke, Stephan; Roepke, Stefan; Rozanov, Vsevolod; Scherer, Stephen W; Schmahl, Christian; Sokolowski, Marcus; Starnawska, Anna; Strober, Michael; Su, Mei-Hsin; Thornton, Laura M; Treasure, Janet; Ware, Erin B; Watson, Hunna J; Witt, Stephanie H; Woodside, D Blake; Yilmaz, Zeynep; Zillich, Lea; Adolfsson, Rolf; Agartz, Ingrid; Alda, Martin; Alfredsson, Lars; Appadurai, Vivek; Artigas, María Soler; Van der Auwera, Sandra; Azevedo, M Helena; Bass, Nicholas; Bau, Claiton HD; Baune, Bernhard T; Bellivier, Frank; Berger, Klaus; Biernacka, Joanna M; Bigdeli, Tim B; Binder, Elisabeth B; Boehnke, Michael; Boks, Marco P; Braff, David L; Bryant, Richard; Budde, Monika; Byrne, Enda M; Cahn, Wiepke; Castelao, Enrique; Cervilla, Jorge A; Chaumette, Boris; Corvin, Aiden; Craddock, Nicholas; Djurovic, Srdjan; Foo, Jerome C; Forstner, Andreas J; Frye, Mark; Gatt, Justine M; Giegling, Ina; Grabe, Hans J; Green, Melissa J; Grevet, Eugenio H; Grigoroiu-Serbanescu, Maria; Gutierrez, Blanca; Guzman-Parra, Jose; Hamshere, Marian L; Hartmann, Annette M; Hauser, Joanna; Heilmann-Heimbach, Stefanie; Hoffmann, Per; Ising, Marcus; Jones, Ian; Jones, Lisa A; Jonsson, Lina; Kahn, René S; Kelsoe, John R; Kendler, Kenneth S; Kloiber, Stefan; Koenen, Karestan C; Kogevinas, Manolis; Krebs, Marie-Odile; Landén, Mikael; Leboyer, Marion; Lee, Phil H; Levinson, Douglas F; Liao, Calwing; Lissowska, Jolanta; Mayoral, Fermin; McElroy, Susan L; McGrath, Patrick; McGuffin, Peter; McQuillin, Andrew; Mehta, Divya; Melle, Ingrid; Mitchell, Philip B; Molina, Esther; Morken, Gunnar; Nievergelt, Caroline; Nöthen, Markus M; O'Donovan, Michael C; Ophoff, Roel A; Owen, Michael J; Pato, Carlos; Pato, Michele T; Penninx, Brenda WJH; Potash, James B; Power, Robert A; Preisig, Martin; Quested, Digby; Ramos-Quiroga, Josep Antoni; Reif, Andreas; Ribasés, Marta; Richarte, Vanesa; Rietschel, Marcella; Rivera, Margarita; Roberts, Andrea; Roberts, Gloria; Rouleau, Guy A; Rovaris, Diego L; Sanders, Alan R; Schofield, Peter R; Schulze, Thomas G; Scott, Laura J; Serretti, Alessandro; Shi, Jianxin; Sirignano, Lea; Sklar, Pamela; Smeland, Olav B; Smoller, Jordan W; Sonuga-Barke, Edmund JS; Trzaskowski, Maciej; Tsuang, Ming T; Turecki, Gustavo; Vilar-Ribó, Laura; Vincent, John B; Völzke, Henry; Walters, James TR; Weickert, Cynthia Shannon; Weickert, Thomas W; Weissman, Myrna M; Williams, Leanne M; Wray, Naomi R; Zai, Clement C; Agerbo, Esben; Børglum, Anders D; Breen, Gerome; Demontis, Ditte; Erlangsen, Annette; Gelernter, Joel; Glatt, Stephen J; Hougaard, David M; Hwu, Hai-Gwo; Kuo, Po-Hsiu; Lewis, Cathryn M; Li, Qingqin S; Liu, Chih-Min; Martin, Nicholas G; McIntosh, Andrew M; Medland, Sarah E; Mors, Ole; Nordentoft, Merete; Olsen, Catherine M; Porteous, David; Smith, Daniel J; Stahl, Eli A; Stein, Murray B; Wasserman, Danuta; Werge, Thomas; Whiteman, David C; Willour, Virginia; VA Million Veteran Program (MVP); MVP Suicide Exemplar Workgroup; Suicide Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium; Major Depressive Disorder Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium; Bipolar Disorder Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium; Schizophrenia Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium; Eating Disorder Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium; German Borderline Genomics Consortium; Coon, Hilary; Beckham, Jean C; Kimbrel, Nathan A; Ruderfer, Douglas M

    Objective

    Suicidal behavior is heritable and is a major cause of death worldwide. Two large-scale genome-wide association studies (GWASs) recently discovered and cross-validated genome-wide significant (GWS) loci for suicide attempt (SA). The present study leveraged the genetic cohorts from both studies to conduct the largest GWAS meta-analysis of SA to date. Multi-ancestry and admixture-specific meta-analyses were conducted within groups of significant African, East Asian, and European ancestry admixtures.

    Methods

    This study comprised 22 cohorts, including 43,871 SA cases and 915,025 ancestry-matched controls. Analytical methods across multi-ancestry and individual ancestry admixtures included inverse variance-weighted fixed-effects meta-analyses, followed by gene, gene-set, tissue-set, and drug-target enrichment, as well as summary-data-based Mendelian randomization with brain expression quantitative trait loci data, phenome-wide genetic correlation, and genetic causal proportion analyses.

    Results

    Multi-ancestry and European ancestry admixture GWAS meta-analyses identified 12 risk loci at p values <5×10-8. These loci were mostly intergenic and implicated DRD2, SLC6A9, FURIN, NLGN1, SOX5, PDE4B, and CACNG2. The multi-ancestry SNP-based heritability estimate of SA was 5.7% on the liability scale (SE=0.003, p=5.7×10-80). Significant brain tissue gene expression and drug set enrichment were observed. There was shared genetic variation of SA with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, smoking, and risk tolerance after conditioning SA on both major depressive disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder. Genetic causal proportion analyses implicated shared genetic risk for specific health factors.

    Conclusions

    This multi-ancestry analysis of suicide attempt identified several loci contributing to risk and establishes significant shared genetic covariation with clinical phenotypes. These findings provide insight into genetic factors associated with suicide attempt across ancestry admixture populations, in veteran and civilian populations, and in attempt versus death.
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    International meta-analysis of PTSD genome-wide association studies identifies sex- and ancestry-specific genetic risk loci.
    (Nature communications, 2019-10) Nievergelt, Caroline M; Maihofer, Adam X; Klengel, Torsten; Atkinson, Elizabeth G; Chen, Chia-Yen; Choi, Karmel W; Coleman, Jonathan RI; Dalvie, Shareefa; Duncan, Laramie E; Gelernter, Joel; Levey, Daniel F; Logue, Mark W; Polimanti, Renato; Provost, Allison C; Ratanatharathorn, Andrew; Stein, Murray B; Torres, Katy; Aiello, Allison E; Almli, Lynn M; Amstadter, Ananda B; Andersen, Søren B; Andreassen, Ole A; Arbisi, Paul A; Ashley-Koch, Allison E; Austin, S Bryn; Avdibegovic, Esmina; Babić, Dragan; Bækvad-Hansen, Marie; Baker, Dewleen G; Beckham, Jean C; Bierut, Laura J; Bisson, Jonathan I; Boks, Marco P; Bolger, Elizabeth A; Børglum, Anders D; Bradley, Bekh; Brashear, Megan; Breen, Gerome; Bryant, Richard A; Bustamante, Angela C; Bybjerg-Grauholm, Jonas; Calabrese, Joseph R; Caldas-de-Almeida, José M; Dale, Anders M; Daly, Mark J; Daskalakis, Nikolaos P; Deckert, Jürgen; Delahanty, Douglas L; Dennis, Michelle F; Disner, Seth G; Domschke, Katharina; Dzubur-Kulenovic, Alma; Erbes, Christopher R; Evans, Alexandra; Farrer, Lindsay A; Feeny, Norah C; Flory, Janine D; Forbes, David; Franz, Carol E; Galea, Sandro; Garrett, Melanie E; Gelaye, Bizu; Geuze, Elbert; Gillespie, Charles; Uka, Aferdita Goci; Gordon, Scott D; Guffanti, Guia; Hammamieh, Rasha; Harnal, Supriya; Hauser, Michael A; Heath, Andrew C; Hemmings, Sian MJ; Hougaard, David Michael; Jakovljevic, Miro; Jett, Marti; Johnson, Eric Otto; Jones, Ian; Jovanovic, Tanja; Qin, Xue-Jun; Junglen, Angela G; Karstoft, Karen-Inge; Kaufman, Milissa L; Kessler, Ronald C; Khan, Alaptagin; Kimbrel, Nathan A; King, Anthony P; Koen, Nastassja; Kranzler, Henry R; Kremen, William S; Lawford, Bruce R; Lebois, Lauren AM; Lewis, Catrin E; Linnstaedt, Sarah D; Lori, Adriana; Lugonja, Bozo; Luykx, Jurjen J; Lyons, Michael J; Maples-Keller, Jessica; Marmar, Charles; Martin, Alicia R; Martin, Nicholas G; Maurer, Douglas; Mavissakalian, Matig R; McFarlane, Alexander; McGlinchey, Regina E; McLaughlin, Katie A; McLean, Samuel A; McLeay, Sarah; Mehta, Divya; Milberg, William P; Miller, Mark W; Morey, Rajendra A; Morris, Charles Phillip; Mors, Ole; Mortensen, Preben B; Neale, Benjamin M; Nelson, Elliot C; Nordentoft, Merete; Norman, Sonya B; O'Donnell, Meaghan; Orcutt, Holly K; Panizzon, Matthew S; Peters, Edward S; Peterson, Alan L; Peverill, Matthew; Pietrzak, Robert H; Polusny, Melissa A; Rice, John P; Ripke, Stephan; Risbrough, Victoria B; Roberts, Andrea L; Rothbaum, Alex O; Rothbaum, Barbara O; Roy-Byrne, Peter; Ruggiero, Ken; Rung, Ariane; Rutten, Bart PF; Saccone, Nancy L; Sanchez, Sixto E; Schijven, Dick; Seedat, Soraya; Seligowski, Antonia V; Seng, Julia S; Sheerin, Christina M; Silove, Derrick; Smith, Alicia K; Smoller, Jordan W; Sponheim, Scott R; Stein, Dan J; Stevens, Jennifer S; Sumner, Jennifer A; Teicher, Martin H; Thompson, Wesley K; Trapido, Edward; Uddin, Monica; Ursano, Robert J; van den Heuvel, Leigh Luella; Van Hooff, Miranda; Vermetten, Eric; Vinkers, Christiaan H; Voisey, Joanne; Wang, Yunpeng; Wang, Zhewu; Werge, Thomas; Williams, Michelle A; Williamson, Douglas E; Winternitz, Sherry; Wolf, Christiane; Wolf, Erika J; Wolff, Jonathan D; Yehuda, Rachel; Young, Ross McD; Young, Keith A; Zhao, Hongyu; Zoellner, Lori A; Liberzon, Israel; Ressler, Kerry J; Haas, Magali; Koenen, Karestan C
    The risk of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) following trauma is heritable, but robust common variants have yet to be identified. In a multi-ethnic cohort including over 30,000 PTSD cases and 170,000 controls we conduct a genome-wide association study of PTSD. We demonstrate SNP-based heritability estimates of 5-20%, varying by sex. Three genome-wide significant loci are identified, 2 in European and 1 in African-ancestry analyses. Analyses stratified by sex implicate 3 additional loci in men. Along with other novel genes and non-coding RNAs, a Parkinson's disease gene involved in dopamine regulation, PARK2, is associated with PTSD. Finally, we demonstrate that polygenic risk for PTSD is significantly predictive of re-experiencing symptoms in the Million Veteran Program dataset, although specific loci did not replicate. These results demonstrate the role of genetic variation in the biology of risk for PTSD and highlight the necessity of conducting sex-stratified analyses and expanding GWAS beyond European ancestry populations.
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    The Relationship of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Two-Sample Mendelian Randomization and Population-Based Sibling Comparison Study.
    (Biological psychiatry, 2023-02) Wendt, Frank R; Garcia-Argibay, Miguel; Cabrera-Mendoza, Brenda; Valdimarsdóttir, Unnur A; Gelernter, Joel; Stein, Murray B; Nivard, Michel G; Maihofer, Adam X; Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium; Nievergelt, Caroline M; Larsson, Henrik; Mattheisen, Manuel; Polimanti, Renato; Meier, Sandra M

    Background

    Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are associated, but it is unclear if this is a causal relationship or confounding. We used genetic analyses and sibling comparisons to clarify the direction of this relationship.

    Methods

    Linkage disequilibrium score regression and 2-sample Mendelian randomization were used to test for genetic correlation (rg) and bidirectional causal effects using European ancestry genome-wide association studies of ADHD (20,183 cases and 35,191 controls) and 6 PTSD definitions (up to 320,369 individuals). Several additional variables were included in the analysis to verify the independence of the ADHD-PTSD relationship. In a population-based sibling comparison (N = 2,082,118 individuals), Cox regression models were fitted to account for time at risk, a range of sociodemographic factors, and unmeasured familial confounders (via sibling comparisons).

    Results

    ADHD and PTSD had consistent rg (rg range, 0.43-0.52; p <  .001). ADHD genetic liability was causally linked with increased risk for PTSD (β = 0.367; 95% CI, 0.186-0.552; p = 7.68 × 10-5). This result was not affected by heterogeneity, horizontal pleiotropy (Mendelian randomization Egger intercept = 4.34 × 10-4, p = .961), or other phenotypes and was consistent across PTSD datasets. However, we found no consistent associations between PTSD genetic liability and ADHD risk. Individuals diagnosed with ADHD were at a higher risk for developing PTSD than their undiagnosed sibling (hazard ratio = 2.37; 95% CI, 1.98-3.53).

    Conclusions

    Our findings add novel evidence supporting the need for early and effective treatment of ADHD, as patients with this diagnosis are at significantly higher risk to develop PTSD later in life.