Abstract
The DDR1 locus is associated with the diagnosis of schizophrenia and with processing speed in patients with schizophrenia and first-episode psychosis. Here, we investigated whether DDR1 variants are associated with bipolar disorder (BD) features. First, we performed a case‒control association study comparing DDR1 variants between patients with BD and healthy controls. Second, we performed linear regression analyses to assess the associations of DDR1 variants with neurocognitive domains and psychosocial functioning. Third, we conducted a mediation analysis to explore whether neurocognitive impairment mediated the association between DDR1 variants and psychosocial functioning in patients with BD. Finally, we studied the association between DDR1 variants and white matter microstructure. We did not find any statistically significant associations in the case‒control association study; however, we found that the combined genotypes rs1264323AA-rs2267641AC/CC were associated with worse neurocognitive performance in patients with BD with psychotic symptoms. In addition, the combined genotypes rs1264323AA-rs2267641AC/CC were associated with worse psychosocial functioning through processing speed. We did not find correlations between white matter microstructure abnormalities and the neurocognitive domains associated with the combined genotypes rs1264323AA-rs2267641AC/CC. Overall, the results suggest that DDR1 may be a marker of worse neurocognitive performance and psychosocial functioning in patients with BD, specifically those with psychotic symptoms.
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This study was supported by grants from the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation (2017 NARSAD Independent grant, #25811 to Eisabet V), Instituto de Salud Carlos III (Research Project PI15/00852 and PI18/00954 to Eisabet V, PI15/00283 to Eduard V and PI15/00277 to EC-R), Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM) (Intramural project grant to Eduard V) and Agència de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (2017SGR00444 and 2021SGR01065 to Eisabet V, 2017SGR01365 and 2021SGR01358 to Eduard V, 2017SGR01271 and 2021SGR01475 to EP-C). Selena Aranda received a predoctoral fellowship granted by the Instituto de Salud Carlos III (PFIS FI19/00268). EC-R was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation and Ambizione grant PZ00P2_185814. The funding organizations played no role in the study design, data collection, analysis, or manuscript approval.
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El. V, EP-C and Ed. V designed and directed the project. El. V and SA conceived and planned the study. EJ, NV, ES, AJ, SM, JB, PAS-M, PG-P, JMM, JMC, AG-P, VP, CA, PS and JS were involved in the patient assessment. SA performed the statistical analyses. EC-R conducted the neuroimaging study. SA and El. V took the lead in writing the manuscript. All authors discussed the results and commented on the manuscript.
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Eduard V has received grants and served as consultant, advisor, or CME speaker (unrelated to this work) for the following entities: AB-Biotics, Abbott, AbbVie, Angelini, Biogen, Compass, Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma, Ferrer, Gedeon Richter, Glaxo Smith-Kline, GH Research, Janssen, Lundbeck, Otsuka, Sage, Sanofi-Aventis, Sunovion, Takeda, and Viatris. AGP has received grants and served as a consultant, advisor or CME speaker for the following entities: Janssen-Cilag, Lundbeck, Otsuka, Pfizer, Sanofi-Aventis, Alter, Angelini, Exeltis, Novartis, Rovi, Takeda, the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (CIBERSAM), the Ministry of Science (Carlos III Institute), the Basque Government, and the European Framework Program of Research. The other authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose. CA received support from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), co-financed by the European Union, and ERDF Funds from the European Commission, “A way of making Europe”, financed by the European Union - NextGenerationEU (PMP21/00051), PI19/01024, CIBERSAM, Madrid Regional Government (B2017/BMD-3740 AGES-CM-2), European Union Structural Funds, European Union Seventh Framework Program, European Union H2020 Program under the Innovative Medicines Initiative 2 Joint Undertaking: Project PRISM-2 (Grant agreement No.101034377), Project AIMS-2-TRIALS (Grant agreement No. 777394), Horizon Europe, the National Institute of Mental Health of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number 1U01MH124639–01 (Project ProNET) and Award Number 5P50MH115846–03 (project FEP-CAUSAL), Fundación Familia Alonso, and Fundación Alicia Koplowitz.
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Aranda, S., Jiménez, E., Canales-Rodríguez, E.J. et al. Processing speed mediates the relationship between DDR1 and psychosocial functioning in euthymic patients with bipolar disorder presenting psychotic symptoms. Mol Psychiatry (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-024-02480-1
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