Abstract
We have completed the first stage of a two-stage genome wide screen designed to identify chromosomal regions that may harbour susceptibility genes for bipolar affective disorder. The first stage screening sample included 509 subjects from 151 nuclear families recruited within the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. This sample contained 154 narrowly defined affected sibling pairs (DSM-IV BPI) and 258 broadly defined affected sibling pairs (DSM-IV BPI, SABP, BPII, BPNOS or MDD(R)), approximately two thirds of all families contained at least one other additional typed individual. All individuals were genotyped using 398 highly polymorphic microsatellite markers from Applied Biosystems's Linkage Mapping Set Version 2. The average inter-marker distance was 9.6?cM and the mean heterozygosity was 0.78. Analysis of these data using non-parametric linkage methods (MAPMAKER/SIBS) found no evidence for loci of major effect and no regions reached genome-wide significance for either suggestive or significant linkage. We identified 19 points across the genome where the MLS exceeded a value set for follow up in our second stage screen (MLS≥0.74 (equivalent to a nominal pointwise significance of 5%) under the narrowest diagnostic model). These points were on chromosomes 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12, 17, 18 & X. Some of these points overlapped with previous linkage reports both within bipolar affective disorder and other psychiatric illnesses. Under the narrowest diagnostic model, the single most significant multipoint linkage was on chromosome 18 at marker D18S452 (MLS=1.54). Overall the highest MLS was 1.70 on chromosome 2 at marker D2S125, under the broadest diagnostic model.
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Nick Craddock was a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow in Clinical Sciences, Ian Jones is a Wellcome Trust Research Training Fellow and George Kirov is a Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellow. The work was supported by grants from the Wellcome Trust. We thank Iain Fenton for continued support of the Megabase software package. We are also grateful to all the clinicians who helped in recruitment. Finally, and most importantly, we are indebted to the families who made this study possible through their enthusiastic and generous participation.
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Bennett, P., Segurado, R., Jones, I. et al. The Wellcome trust UK–Irish bipolar affective disorder sibling-pair genome screen: first stage report. Mol Psychiatry 7, 189–200 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.mp.4000957
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