DESCRIPTION:

Genome-wide association of Bipolar disorder. 461 European ancestry cases, 563 European ancestry controls.

LABEL:

GWAS Bipolar disorder

SCORE TYPE:

P-Value

DATE ADDED:

None

DATE UPDATED:

2024-04-25

SPECIES:

AUTHORS:

Baum AE, Akula N, Cabanero M, Cardona I, Corona W, Klemens B, Schulze TG, Cichon S, Rietschel M, Georgi A, Schumacher J, Schwarz M, Abou Jamra R, Propping P, Satagopan J, Detera-Wadleigh SD, Hardy J, McMahon FJ

TITLE:

A genome-wide association study implicates diacylglycerol kinase eta (DGKH) and several other genes in the etiology of bipolar disorder.

JOURNAL:

Molecular psychiatry Feb 2008, Vol 13, pp. 197-207

ABSTRACT:

The genetic basis of bipolar disorder has long been thought to be complex, with the potential involvement of multiple genes, but methods to analyze populations with respect to this complexity have only recently become available. We have carried out a genome-wide association study of bipolar disorder by genotyping over 550,000 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in two independent case-control samples of European origin. The initial association screen was performed using pooled DNA, and selected SNPs were confirmed by individual genotyping. While DNA pooling reduces power to detect genetic associations, there is a substantial cost saving and gain in efficiency. A total of 88 SNPs, representing 80 different genes, met the prior criteria for replication in both samples. Effect sizes were modest: no single SNP of large effect was detected. Of 37 SNPs selected for individual genotyping, the strongest association signal was detected at a marker within the first intron of diacylglycerol kinase eta (DGKH; P=1.5 x 10(-8), experiment-wide P<0.01, OR=1.59). This gene encodes DGKH, a key protein in the lithium-sensitive phosphatidyl inositol pathway. This first genome-wide association study of bipolar disorder shows that several genes, each of modest effect, reproducibly influence disease risk. Bipolar disorder may be a polygenic disease. PUBMED: 17486107
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