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Genome-wide analysis reveals extensive genetic overlap between schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and intelligence

Molecular Psychiatry volume 25, pages 844–853 (2020)Cite this article

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Schizophrenia (SCZ) and bipolar disorder (BD) are severe mental disorders associated with cognitive impairment, which is considered a major determinant of functional outcome. Despite this, the etiology of the cognitive impairment is poorly understood, and no satisfactory cognitive treatments exist. Increasing evidence indicates that genetic risk for SCZ may contribute to cognitive impairment, whereas the genetic relationship between BD and cognitive function remains unclear. Here, we combined large genome-wide association study data on SCZ (n = 82,315), BD (n = 51,710), and general intelligence (n = 269,867) to investigate overlap in common genetic variants using conditional false discovery rate (condFDR) analysis. We observed substantial genetic enrichment in both SCZ and BD conditional on associations with intelligence indicating polygenic overlap. Using condFDR analysis, we leveraged this enrichment to increase statistical power and identified 75 distinct genomic loci associated with both SCZ and intelligence, and 12 loci associated with both BD and intelligence at conjunctional FDR < 0.01. Among these loci, 20 are novel for SCZ, and four are novel for BD. Most SCZ risk alleles (61 of 75, 81%) were associated with poorer cognitive performance, whereas most BD risk alleles (9 of 12, 75%) were associated with better cognitive performance. A gene set analysis of the loci shared between SCZ and intelligence implicated biological processes related to neurodevelopment, synaptic integrity, and neurotransmission; the same analysis for BD was underpowered. Altogether, the study demonstrates that both SCZ and BD share genetic influences with intelligence, albeit in a different manner, providing new insights into their genetic architectures.

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We thank the Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder Working Groups of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium for access to data, and the consortia for making available their GWAS summary statistics, and the many people who provided DNA samples. We gratefully acknowledge support from the Research Council of Norway (262656, 249711, 248980, 248778, 223273), South-East Norway Regional Health Authority (2017-112, 2016–064) and KG Jebsen Stiftelsen (SKGJ‐MED‐008); ABCD-USA Consortium (5U2 4DA041123)

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    Olav B Smeland, Shahram Bahrami, Oleksandr Frei, Alexey Shadrin, Kevin O’Connell, Florian Krull, Francesco Bettella, Nils Eiel Steen, Torill Ueland & Ole A Andreassen

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Smeland, O.B., Bahrami, S., Frei, O. et al. Genome-wide analysis reveals extensive genetic overlap between schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and intelligence. Mol Psychiatry 25, 844–853 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-018-0332-x

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