1. Genome-wide association study identifies new locus associated with OCD
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Danielle Posthuma, Bernie Devlin, Edna Grünblatt, Ying Wang, Daniele Cusi, Stephan Ruhrmann, Steven A. Rasmussen, Michael S. Breen, Julia Klawohn, Ana Gabriela Hounie, Aline S. Sampaio, Cristina Barlassina, Marta Ribasés, Jackson G. Thorp, Cynthia M. Bulik, Marco A. Grados, Dan J. Stein, Abby Fyer, Vladimir Coric, Martha J. Falkenstein, Stephanie Le Hellard, Behrang Mahjani, Nathaniel McGregor, Homero Vallada, Miguel Casas, Laurent F. Thomas, Janice Krasnow, Abraham Reichenberg, Donald W. Black, Gwyneth Zai, Norbert Kathmann, Manuel Mattheisen, Nicholas G. Martin, Jason W. Krompinger, Josep Antoni Ramos-Quiroga, Judith Becker Nissen, Helga Ask, Damiaan Denys, Carolina Cappi, Euripedes Constantino Miguel, O. Joseph Bienvenu, Bengt T. Fundin, Lisa Osiecki, Karin J. H. Verweij, Paul Sandor, Jeremy Veenstra-VanderWeele, Maureen Mulhern, Sarah E. Medland, David M. Hougaard, Lauren Erdman, Jan Haavik, James L. Kennedy, Christopher P. Walker, Jurjen J. Luykx, Tim B. Bigdeli, Ian M. Hickie, Nienke Vulink, Maurizio Turiel, Peter Falkai, Enda M. Byrne, Valentina Ciullo, Daniel A. Geller, Liang Kung-Yee, Miriam A. Schiele, Lambertus Klei, Götz Berberich, Thomas Werge, Brion S. Maher, Christie L. Burton, Julia M. Sealock, Sandra Meier, Bernadette Cullen, Stephan Ripke, Dorothy E. Grice, Richard Delorme, Ted Reichborn-Kjennerud, Dongmei Yu, Danielle C. Cath, Lili Milani, Abdel Abdellaoui, Andres Metspalu, María Soler Artigas, Maria Conceição do Rosário, Ole Mors, Brian P. Brennan, Barbara E. Stranger, Ann E. Pulver, Nora I. Strom, Joseph D. Buxbaum, Hans J. Grabe, Jens R. Wendland, Michael H. Bloch, Srdjan Djurovic, Raquel Rabionet, Angel Carracedo, Carlos N. Pato, Erika L. Nurmi, Janet L. Sobell, Kevin S. O’Connell, Michael Wagner, David R. Rosenberg, Jonathan R. I. Coleman, Jeremiah M. Scharf, Kerry J. Ressler, Jaakko Kaprio, Edwin H. Cook, Scott L. Rauch, Federica Piras, Merete Nordentoft, Christian Rück, Fabrizio Piras, John-Anker Zwart, Jason A. Elias, Christopher Pittenger, Lea K. Davis, Margaret A. Richter, Evonne McArthur, Bendik S. Winsvold, Yin Yao, James J. Crowley, David L. Pauls, Rosa Bosch, Xavier Estivil, Matthew Halvorsen, Adrian Camarena, Nancy L. Pedersen, Pino Alonso, Eric A. Storch, Bjarne Hansen, Helena Brentani, James T. McCracken, Jan Maerten Smit, Donald Hucks, Alexandra Havdahl, Gerome Breen, Christina M. Hultman, Benjamin M. Neale, Gregory L. Hanna, Mikael Landén, Christine Lochner, Dirk J.A. Smit, Fabio Macciardi, Carol A. Mathews, Nuria Lanzagorta, Laura G. Sloofman, Cristina Rodriguez-Fontenla, Michael A. Jenike, Michele T. Pato, Marion Leboyer, Humberto Nicolini, Anders D. Børglum, Maria Cristina Cavallini, Wei Guo, Benjamin D. Greenberg, Maiken Elvestad Gabrielsen, Magdalena Janecka, Mark A. Riddle, Paul S. Nestadt, Beatriz Camarena, Valsamma Eapen, Susanne Walitza, Jack Samuels, Fernando S. Goes, Nicole C.R. McLaughlin, S. Evelyn Stewart, Jennifer Reichert, Sven Sandin, Gerd Kvale, Katharina Domschke, Ole A. Andreassen, Elles de Schipper, Paul D. Arnold, Kristi Krebs, Zachary Gerring, Teemu Palviainen, Kathleen D. Askland, Alfredo Ramirez, James A. Knowles, Laura Bellodi, Kristen Hagen, Julia Boberg, Thomas V. Fernandez, Gerald Nestadt, John Piacentini, Jakob Grove, Eske M. Derks, Preben Bo Mortensen, Elinor K. Karlsson, Gianfranco Spalletta, David Mataix-Cols, Katharina Bey, and Jonas Bybjerg-Grauholm
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Genetics ,business.industry ,Locus (genetics) ,Genome-wide association study ,Single-nucleotide polymorphism ,Heritability ,behavioral disciplines and activities ,humanities ,Genetic architecture ,Anorexia nervosa (differential diagnoses) ,mental disorders ,medicine ,Anxiety ,SNP ,medicine.symptom ,business - Abstract
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a heritable disorder, but no definitive, replicated OCD susceptibility loci have yet been identified by any genome-wide association study (GWAS). Here, we report results from a GWAS in the largest OCD case-control sample (N = 14,140 OCD cases and N = 562,117 controls) to date. We explored the genetic architecture of OCD, including its genetic relationships to other psychiatric and non-psychiatric phenotypes. In the GWAS analysis, we identified one SNP associated with OCD at a genome-wide significant level. Subsequent gene-based analyses identified additional two genes as potentially implicated in OCD pathogenesis. All SNPs combined explained 16% of the heritability of OCD. We show sub-stantial positive genetic correlations between OCD and a range of psychiatric disorders, including anxiety disorders, anorexia nervosa, and major depression. We thus for the first time provide evidence of a genome-wide locus implicated in OCD and strengthen previous literature suggesting a polygenic nature of this disorder.
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- 2021