Abstract
Female reproductive behaviours have important implications for evolutionary fitness and health of offspring. Here we used the second release of UK Biobank data (N = 220,685) to evaluate the association between five female reproductive traits and polygenic risk scores (PRS) projected from genome-wide association study summary statistics of six psychiatric disorders (N = 429,178). We found that the PRS of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) were strongly associated with age at first birth (AFB) (genetic correlation of −0.68 ± 0.03), age at first sexual intercourse (AFS) (−0.56 ± 0.03), number of live births (NLB) (0.36 ± 0.04) and age at menopause (−0.27 ± 0.04). There were also robustly significant associations between the PRS of eating disorder (ED) and AFB (0.35 ± 0.06), ED and AFS (0.19 ± 0.06), major depressive disorder (MDD) and AFB (−0.27 ± 0.07), MDD and AFS (−0.27 ± 0.03) and schizophrenia and AFS (−0.10 ± 0.03). These associations were mostly explained by pleiotropic effects and there was little evidence of causal relationships. Our findings can potentially help improve reproductive health in women, hence better child outcomes. Our findings also lend partial support to the evolutionary hypothesis that causal mutations underlying psychiatric disorders have positive effects on reproductive success.
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Introduction
Female reproductive behaviours, including age at first birth (AFB), age at first sexual intercourse (AFS), age at menarche (AMC), age at menopause (AMP) and number of live births (NLB) have important implications in reproductive health and evolutionary fitness1,2. Some of these traits have been shown to associate with the physical and mental health of offspring3, and there has been growing evidence that maternal AFB is associated with increased risk of psychiatric disorder4,5 and behavioural problems in their children6,7. For instance, both early and late maternal AFB are associated with an increased risk to schizophrenia (SCZ)4, bipolar disorder (BIP)8, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)7, autism spectrum disorder (ASD)9 and depression10 in offspring. Age at menopause and menarche also tend to correlate with the risk of adverse mental health outcomes in offspring11,12,13,14.
The relationship between reproductive behavior and susceptibility to psychiatric disorders is likely complex and bidirectional. Individuals with psychiatric illnesses and their relatives may be more prone to risk taking and impulsive behaviors, which cause early pregnancy and childbirth in women, or they may exhibit poor social interactions that result in delays in key reproductive transitions such as marriage, pregnancy and childbirth15,16,17,18,19,20.
In addition to the epidemiological evidence, the phenotypical relationship between female reproductive traits and psychiatric disorder risk in offspring may have a genetic basis21,22,23,24,25,26. Genome wide association studies (GWAS) that examined reproductive behaviors and psychiatry disorders separately have identified several genome-wide significant genetic loci influencing AFB21, NLB21 and AFS3, and ones affecting susceptibility to ADHD27, ASD23, eating disorders (ED)28, BIP29, major depressive disorder (MDD)30, and SCZ31. When reproductive traits and psychiatric disorders are examined together, a complex genetic relationship between the two clusters of traits begins to emerge32. For instance, recent studies24,26 showed a U-shaped relationship between AFB and the polygenic risk score of SCZ24, which echoes with the phenotypic association between maternal age and SCZ risk in offspring found in epidemiological studies (e.g. McGrath et al.4, El-Saadi et al.33, Byrne et al.34). However, for most other psychiatric disorders, the latent genetic architecture shared with reproductive traits remains unknown.
In this study, we investigate the genetic association of five specific reproductive traits in women (AFB, AFS, AMC, AMP and NLB) with six common psychiatric disorders (ADHD, ASD, ED, BIP, MDD, and SCZ) using polygenic score and LDSC approach. Causal relationship between the risk of psychiatric disorders and female reproductive traits is further tested using Mendelian randomization. This will shed light on the complex bio-psychosocial risk factors associated with shared genetic effects between female reproductive and psychiatric traits. Furthermore, this study provides insight into whether complex phenotypes of reproductive behaviour can be caused by mental health or rather by pleiotropic genes associated with both traits.
Materials and Methods
UK Biobank’s scientific protocol and operational procedures were reviewed and approved by the North West Multi-centre Research Ethics Committee (MREC), National Information Governance Board for Health & Social Care (NIGB), and Community Health Index Advisory Group (CHIAG). UK Biobank also obtained informed consent from the study participants. Research Ethics approval was obtained from University of South Australia Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC). All methods were performed in accordance with the relevant guidelines and regulations.
Data
UK Biobank sample and quality control
We used the second release of the UK Biobank dataset that initially included 264,859 women with imputed genotypes for 35.6 million SNPs. The imputation was based on the Haplotype Reference Consortium reference panel35. The quality control (QC) criteria for the imputed genotype data included an imputation reliability (INFO score) >0.636,37,38, minor allele frequency >0.01, p-value for Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium test >10E-7, and SNP missingness <0.05. Women with non-white British ancestry, individual missingness >0.05, individuals with putative sex chromosome aneuploidy or one individual per pair of relatives was excluded. After the QC above, we compared discordance between the first and second release of QCed UK Biobank data for each SNP and individual that were excluded if the discordance rate was above 0.05. In addition, we excluded genome-wide significant SNPs in a GWAS analysis where individuals in the first and second release UK Biobank data were treated as cases and controls. Subsequently, 220,685 individuals and 7,253,311 SNPs remained, from which 1,133,064 Hapmap3 SNPs were selected for the analyses. Traits of interest were AFB, AFS, AMC, AMP, and NLB. Number of observations for each trait are provided in Table 1.
Psychiatric genomics consortium (PGC) GWAS summary statistics results
The GWAS summary results of six psychiatric disorders were obtained from the PGC (http://www.med.unc.edu/pgc), including ADHD27, ASD23, ED28, BIP29, MDD30, and SCZ31. The number of cases and controls in these studies are provided in Table S1.
Statistical analyses
Estimation of polygenic risk scores (PRS)
For each psychiatric disorder, PRS were computed for the UK Biobank sample as the sum of the risk alleles weighted by the estimated SNP effects from the PGC GWAS that are in public domain (http://www.med.unc.edu/pgc/) and not likely to include UK Biobank sample. To compute PRS for the UK Biobank sample we used approximately 1,133,064 HapMap 3 SNPs from each study. The projection of the SNP effects onto the UK Biobank data was conducted using MTG239.
Mean difference of PRS across the five categories
For each reproductive trait, we first divided UK Biobank samples into five groups according to their values on the trait (see Table 1 for sample breakdowns). We then did pairwise comparisons between group means for each trait using two-tailed t-tests.
Linear prediction
Using a linear or polynomial regression model, we assessed, for each disorder, if PRS significantly predicted each of the phenotypes of the reproductive traits. In the prediction model, each of the reproductive traits was adjusted for age at interview, year of birth, study center, genotype batch, and the first 15 principal components (PCs) provided by the UK Biobank. For sensitivity analyses, we repeated the prediction using additional variables including educational attainment, income level, and smoking and alcohol consumption status.
Genetic correlation
Genetic correlation is a classic population parameter used to infer the geometric mean of trait variance (i.e. the additive genetic covariance between two traits scaled by the square root of the product of the genetic variance for each trait). Pairwise genetic correlations were estimated between the reproductive traits and psychiatric disorders using linkage disequilibrium score regression (LDSC) based on GWAS summary statistics40,41. GWAS was carried out and SNP effects were estimated for each of the reproductive traits using PLINK 1.942. In the GWAS, phenotypes were adjusted for age at interview, year of birth, assessment center at which participant consented, genotype batch and the first 15 PCs. We also used additional covariates such as educational attainment, income level, smoking and alcohol consumption status to further adjust the phenotypes in sensitivity analyses.
Analysis of overlapping samples between PGC and UK Biobank data
The intercept of LDSC is estimated as \({\varrho }{N}_{s}/\sqrt{{N}_{1}{N}_{2}}\), where \({\varrho }\) is the phenotypic correlation among Ns overlapping individuals in the two studies with sample sizes of N1 and N2, respectively40. To check if there were any overlapping samples between UK Biobank and PGC, we explicitly estimated the intercept when using LDSC to estimate genetic correlations between the reproductive traits and psychiatric disorders
Causal effects of psychiatric disorder PRS on female reproduction traits
We performed two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) analyses to test whether there were causal relationships between the risk of psychiatric disorders and female reproductive traits. We used psychiatric disorder PRS as exposure data and female reproductive traits as outcomes. Genome-wide significant SNPs (p < 5E-08) from the PGC GWAS summary statistic results were used as instruments in the MR analyses. Associations between the instruments and the outcomes were tested42. Prior to the association test, we adjusted the outcomes, the phenotypes of the female reproductive traits, for age at interview, year of birth, assessment centre at which participant consented, genotype batch and the first 15 PCs. We used an inverse-variance weighted (IVW) regression43 as the primary analysis to determine a causal relationship and used MR-Egger44, weighted median45 and weighted mode46, which rely on different assumptions regarding the validity of instruments, for sensitivity analyses. Details of those assumptions are described elsewhere43,44,45,46. MR analyses were performed using a R package, TwoSampleMR47, and P-values were obtained using a two-tailed t-test with the respective degree of freedom. The instruments were available for ADHD, BIP and SCZ only, therefore ASD, ED, MDD were not tested for the MR analyses.
Results
Basic characteristics
In this study, we analyzed genetic data from 220,685 women who were part of the UK Biobank. The average age of the study participants at recruitment was 57, with a range from 40 to 71. The number of observations for each reproductive trait is provided in Table 1. The total sample of women was divided into five groups according to their AFB, AFS, AMC, AMP or NLB status (Table 1) to detect the mean difference of PRS across the five categories.
Mean difference of PRS across the five categories
First, we computed PRS of the six psychiatric disorders for the UK Biobank sample and estimated the mean of the PRS for each age category of each reproductive trait (Figs 1–5). Then, the mean difference of the PRS was tested across the five categories for each of the reproductive traits (Tables S2–S6). A statistically significant difference in the PRS was determined after Bonferroni correction for multiple testing (i.e. significance level divided by the number of tests, 0.05/300 = 1.7E-4) and the results that passed the significance threshold were highlighted in bold (see Tables S2–S6).
In Fig. 1, the direction of association between the PRS and AFB was positive (the older the AFB, the higher the risk) for ED, ASD and BIP, but negative (the younger the AFB, the higher the risk) for ADHD, MDD and SCZ although some traits (MDD and SCZ) showed non-linear (U-shaped) associations. A U-shaped relationship was previously shown between AFB and SCZ in an independent study24. The mean difference in PRS was statistically significant for most pairwise comparisons of age classes for ADHD, ED and MDD (Table S2). The significance was particularly pronounced for ADHD, with a P-value of 2.0E-184, for example, for the difference between women with AFB < 20 and women with 30 ≤ AFB < 35 (Table S2). For SCZ, most significant signals came from younger AFB groups (Fig. 1 and Table S2).
The results for AFS were similar to those for AFB, consistent with the strong correlation between these traits (Fig. 6), although some signals were reduced and not significant after the Bonferroni correction (ASD, BIP and MDD) (Fig. 2 and Table S3).
For AMC and AMP, there were relatively few statistically significant differences between age groups for the six psychiatric disorders, with the exception of ADHD (Tables S4 and S5). The relationship between the PRS of ADHD and AMC was non-linear (Fig. 3), with earlier or later AMC tending to have significantly higher ADHD risk than intermediate AMC (Table S4). A similar relationship was observed between the ADHD PRS and AMP in that earlier or later AMP was associated with higher ADHD risk than moderate AMP (Fig. 4 and Table S5).
Since NLB was expected to be negatively correlated with AFB (see Fig. 6), the pattern of the mean PRS of ADHD was inversely correlated between the groups classified according to NLB and AFB (Figs 1 and 5). Table S6 shows that the ADHD PRS was strongly associated with NLB. In addition, there were a number of significant association signals of NLB for MDD and SCZ (Table S6).
Linear prediction
We used a regression method to assess the significance of genetic association between the reproductive behavior traits and six psychiatric disorders (see Methods).
We regressed each of pre-adjusted reproductive traits (AFB, AFS, AMC, AMP and NLB) on the PRS of each of the psychiatric disorders. Using the linear regression prediction modeling, we showed that the PRS of each six psychiatric disorder were significantly associated with at least one of the five reproductive traits, confirming some of the robust associations from the earlier analyses of mean difference of PRS across the five age categories (Tables S2–S6). Of all the five reproductive traits, AFB was the trait best predicted by the PRS of the six psychiatric disorders (Fig. 7, the corresponding R-squared and P-values are in Table S7). Because AFB and AFS are highly correlated traits, the results for AFS were similar to those for AFB except that there was no significant association between PRS of AFS and BIP, which is consistent with the analyses of mean difference of PRS above (Tables S2 and S3). NLB was significantly predicted by the PRS of ADHD, ASD, MDD, and SCZ. In addition, AMC and AMP were only associated with the PRS of ASD and ADHD, respectively. We noted that the majority of significance was explained by linear predictions, but not by quadratic polynomial predictions for all of the associations (Table S8). There were marginal significances for quadratic polynomial associations only for a few pairwise comparisons (AFB vs SCZ and AFS vs ED).
We conducted a sensitivity analysis in which dependent variables were further adjusted for educational attainment, income level, smoking and alcohol consumption status (Fig. S1 and Table S9). Most of the association signals remained significant with some exceptions. For example, the association of AFB, AFS, and NLB with ASD disappeared, as did the association between AFB and BIP. Conversely, ADHD became significantly associated with AMC after correcting for the additional covariates.
When using GWAS p-value thresholds to filter SNPs, the significance of linear prediction decreased for most of the association analyses between the reproductive traits and six psychiatric disorders (Table S10). This indicates that the associations between the reproductive traits and six psychiatric disorders were probably due to many genes, not due to a few major genes.
Genetic correlations
We used LDSC to estimate genetic correlations between the reproductive behavior traits and six psychiatric disorders (see Methods). We estimated genetic correlations between the five reproductive traits to reveal the shared genetic architecture of the traits (Fig. 6). As expected, the genetic correlation between AFB and AFS was very high (0.821 ± 0.018) and that between AFB and NLB was high (−0.594 ± 0.032). However, the genetic correlation between AMC and AMP was relatively low and they also have moderate or low genetic correlations with other reproductive traits, e.g. 0.346 ± 0.036 between AFB and AMP, 0.303 ± 0.039 between AFS and AMP and ~ 0.1 between AMC and other traits (Fig. 6). These results explain the observations in the analyses of mean difference in PRS (Figs 1–5) and linear predictors (Fig. 7), where the results between AFB and AFS were similar, and those between AFB (AFS) and NLB were reciprocally similar for the association with ADHD PRS. The estimated genetic correlations among those five reproductive traits remained similar after additional adjustment of the dependent variables for educational attainment, income levels, and smoking and alcohol consumption status (Fig. 6 vs. Fig. S2).
Figure 8 shows the estimated genetic correlation from LDSC for each pair of five reproductive traits and six psychiatric disorders. The detailed genetic correlations and P-value are in Table S11. Nine pairs of genetic correlations out of 30 were significantly different from zero after Bonferroni correction. For AFB analyses, the estimated genetic correlations were greater than zero (positive association) between AFB and ED (0.349 ± 0.061), and lower than zero (negative association) between AFB and ADHD (−0.677 ± 0.034) and AFB and MDD (−0.273 ± 0.069). Similarly, AFS was inversely correlated with ADHD (−0.563 ± 0.034), MDD (−0.265 ± 0.066) and SCZ (−0.100 ± 0.030) and positively correlated with ED (0.189 ± 0.055). For AMC and AMP, there was no significant genetic correlation except that between AMP and ADHD (−0.272 ± 0.038). NLB showed positive genetic correlation with ADHD (0.356 ± 0.042) and was non-significant for other pairs of traits. These results agreed with the analyses of mean difference of PRS (Figs 1–5) and linear prediction above (Fig. 7).
In the analyses where dependent variables were further adjusted for education, income levels, smoking and alcohol consumption status, the estimated genetic correlations between reproductive traits and psychiatric disorders were not substantially changed (Fig. S3 and Table S11), compared to those depicted in Fig. 8 and Table S11.
Analysis of overlapping samples between PGC and UK biobank data
The intercepts between the reproductive traits and six psychiatric disorders were not significantly different from zero, indicating little overlaps between UK biobank and PGC samples (Figs S4 and S5). The sole exception was that the intercept between AFB and ED was significantly lower than zero (−0.017 ± SE 0.006), which may be due to sampling errors or excessive heterogeneity40,41. Most of the intercepts from the cross-trait LDSC analyses of the five reproductive traits were significantly different from zero, as expected (Figs S6 and S7). We note that the intercepts of AMP-AMC and AMC-NLB were not different from zero, which was because of the small phenotypic correlation between these pairs of traits.
Causal effects of psychiatric disorder PRS on female reproduction traits
In the analysis using IVW regression, we found weak evidence (not significant after multiple testing correction) for a causal relationship between ADHD and AFB (β = −0.521, 95% confidence interval: −0.969 to −0.072, p-value = 0.031), and between ADHD and AFS (β = −0.407, 95% CI: −0.667 to −0.147, p-value = 0.010). None of the sensitivity analyses confirmed the significance except the weighted median approach, i.e. p-value = 0.042 for the causal relationship between ADHD and AFB and p-value = 0.016 for that between ADHD and AFS (which was also not significant after multiple testing correction) (Table 2). It was noted that the MR-Egger intercept estimate for the causal relationship between ADHD and AFS was significantly different from zero (p-value = 0.041), indicating that the signal of causal relationship might be due to pleiotropic effects. There was no notable evidence for causal relationship between any pair of psychiatric disorder PRS and reproduction traits in the analyses. The I2 statistics48 of MR-Egger were 0.96, 0.69 and 0.97 for ADHD, BIP and SCZ, mostly satisfying the ‘no measurement error’ assumption48 except BIP that had a weaker association signal than ADHD or SCZ (Figs 7 and 8).
Discussion
We revealed the complex psychosocial genetic risk architecture underpinning the association between reproductive traits and six psychiatric disorders using the HapMap3 SNPs that are known to be reliable1,37,38,40. The strong genetic associations between ADHD and most reproductive traits (except AMC) were supported by three different approaches, the analyses of mean difference of PRS across five different (age) categories, linear prediction and genetic correlation using LDSC. Genetic associations between two of the reproductive traits (AFB and AFS) and both MDD and ED were consistently significant across the various analyses. The association between SCZ and AFB (and NLB) was significant in the analyses of mean difference of PRS and linear prediction although the estimated genetic correlation from LDSC analysis was not significant.
It is known that modelling genetic correlation between traits can increase accuracy significantly in predicting individual genetic risk for the traits49,50. Our findings of significant associations between female reproductive traits and between these traits and psychiatric disorders may be useful in improving female reproductive health, hence better child outcomes. For example, the high-risk group for ADHD could be informed about features of ADHD, such as impulsive behaviour and possible consequences of impulsivity. This intervention may lead to prevent them giving birth at an immature age, which can improve their reproductive health and the maternal environment for their baby. Furthermore, this information of genetic predisposition, combined with information on psychosocial factors, can be recorded as a form of family medical history, and used to monitor health of offspring.
Psychiatric disorders are highly heritable traits (e.g. ADHD or SCZ) while they persist in the population in a stable prevalence rate. It is questioned why natural selection has not excluded the causal mutations underlying psychiatric disorders. Three plausible hypotheses have been proposed. First, the impact of natural selection on the removal of existing causal mutations may be slower than the addition of new genetic mutations causing, for example, ADHD or SCZ. Second, pre-existing neutral mutations may interact with environments that have been new exposures for the population, and cause the disorders51. Third, causal mutations underlying psychiatric disorders have positive effects on reproductive success. The last hypothesis can be supported by our observation that NLB and ADHD have a strong positive genetic correlation (Figs 7 and 8). For SCZ and MDD, there is a suggestive signal for a positive genetic association with NLB (Figs 7 and 8), which agrees with a recent comprehensive study for SCZ52. However, this hypothesis is not supported by the results for ASD, BIP and ED.
ADHD is shown to be genetically associated with a set of reproductive traits such as AFB or AFS. However, we found no clear evidence that higher genetic risk of ADHD decreased AFB or AFS, from the MR analyses. The negative association between ADHD PRS and AFB or between ADHD PRS and AFS found in linear prediction and genetic correlation might be mostly because of pleiotropic effects. MR-Egger result also showed that pleiotropic effects explained the relationship between ADHD PRS and AFS. We did not find any evidence to support a causal relationship for any pair of psychiatric disorder PRS and reproduction traits, which agree with a recent study53 reporting that there is no evidence of a causal effect of genetic liability for schizophrenia on NLB or AFB. It was noted that we used a small number of SNPs as instruments in the MR analyses especially for ADHD and BIP. Therefore, a further study with a large number of instruments should be warranted when more genome-wide SNPs become available.
We report a novel shared genetic architecture between female reproductive traits, i.e. including strong positive genetic correlation between AFB and AFS, high negative genetic correlation between AFB and NLB, and AFS and NLB, moderate positive genetic correlation between AMP and AFB (AFS), moderate negative genetic correlation between AMP and NLB, and negligible genetic correlation between AMC and other reproductive traits. These reported relationships among the reproductive traits may help shed light on how causal genetic variants are involved and shared in the regulation of reproductive mechanisms at the genome-wide level. The strong positive and negative associations between AFB and AFS, and AFB and NLB are intuitive and well expected. However, other relationships (e.g. moderate positive association between AFB and AMP and negligible association between AMC and AMP) should be further investigated in a future study to identify the exact mechanism of menarche and menopause in relation to reproductive success54.
There are a number of limitations in this study. Firstly, we used the PRS or LDSC approach using GWAS summary statistics instead of individual-level genotype data for psychiatric disorders, for which we do not have access permissions. The power and accuracy of detection and estimation in the analyses could be increased when using individual-level genotype data55. Secondly, we tested causal relationship between the PRS of ADHD, BIP and SCZ and five reproductive traits in women and found no evidence of causality. A relatively small number of instruments might result in lack of power to detect such causal relationship if there is any. Thirdly, we only focused on reproductive traits in women because data on related male traits (e.g. AFB, AFS) are not fully available in the UKB. The collection of data on reproductive traits such as AFB in men, that would enable the study of genetic associations between psychiatric disorders and these reproductive traits should be a priority for the field. Fourthly, for the female reproductive traits, we used self-reported data and ascertained sample that is less representative of the general population. A fifth limitation is the possible confounding from factors such as a history of early childhood adversity and socioeconomic status (SES). A history of childhood adversity has been associated with a range of adverse mental health outcomes, including psychosis56, BIP57, and MDD58. With regard to SES, children living in low-income households have been found to have an increased risk for ADHD59. Low access to economic resources have been associated both with an earlier age of menarche, and in both females and males, a larger number of offspring at an earlier age60. In particular, a strong link has been observed between lower SES during childhood and parenthood during adolescence61. Therefore, in sensitivity analyses, we repeated the prediction using income level (as a measure of SES) as an additional variable.
In conclusion, we revealed the latent genetic architecture between the five reproductive traits in women and six psychiatric disorders. In particular, ADHD PRS and a set of reproductive traits were substantially associated through common genetic factors. There were also a number of robust associations between reproductive traits and ED, SCZ and MDD PRS. There was no evidence that the risk of any psychiatric disorder modulated the phenotypes of the female reproductive traits. Therefore, the associations found in this study were mostly due to genetic pleiotropic effects. Our findings can have potential to help improve reproductive health in women and their child outcomes. These findings also can help address an evolutionary hypothesis that causal mutations underlying ADHD, MDD and SCZ have positive effects on reproductive success.
URLS
PGC: http://www.med.unc.edu/pgc/.
Data Availability
The genome-wide analysis summary statistics of Psychiatric genomics consortium results can be downloaded from the public domain (http://www.med.unc.edu/pgc/). The individual genotype data of UK Biobank sample can be available via application to UK Biobank (http://www.ukbiobank.ac.uk/register-apply/).
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This research is supported by the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (1080157, 1087889), and the Australian Research Council (DP160102126, DP190100766, FT160100229). This research has been conducted using the UK Biobank Resource. UK Biobank (http://www.ukbiobank.ac.uk) Research Ethics Committee (REC) Approval Number is 11/NW/0382. Our reference number approved by UK Biobank is 14575. This research was undertaken with the assistance of resources and services from the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI), which is supported by the Australian Government.
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S.H.L. conceived the idea and directed the study. G.N. and S.H.L. performed the analyses and interpreted the results. J.G. and N.M. provided critical feedback and key elements in interpreting the results. S.H.L., G.N., J.G. and X.Z. drafted the manuscript. With support from S.H.L., A.A. made interpretation of the analyses output, organised the scientific theory of the work and drafted the manuscript. All authors contributed to editing and approval of the final manuscript.
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Ni, G., Amare, A.T., Zhou, X. et al. The genetic relationship between female reproductive traits and six psychiatric disorders. Sci Rep 9, 12041 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-48403-x
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