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Shared molecular neuropathology across major psychiatric disorders parallels polygenic overlap
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 2016.
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Abstract
- Recent large-scale studies have identified multiple genetic risk factors for mental illness and indicate a complex, polygenic, and pleiotropic genetic architecture for neuropsychiatric disease. However, little is known about how genetic variants yield brain dysfunction or pathology. We use transcriptomic profiling as an unbiased, quantitative readout of molecular phenotypes across 5 major psychiatric disorders, including autism (ASD), schizophrenia (SCZ), bipolar disorder (BD), depression (MDD), and alcoholism (AAD), compared with carefully matched controls. We identify a clear pattern of shared and distinct gene-expression perturbations across these conditions, identifying neuronal gene co-expression modules downregulated across ASD, SCZ, and BD, and astrocyte related modules most prominently upregulated in ASD and SCZ. Remarkably, the degree of sharing of transcriptional dysregulation was strongly related to polygenic (SNP-based) overlap across disorders, indicating a significant genetic component. These findings provide a systems-level view of the neurobiological architecture of major neuropsychiatric illness and demonstrate pathways of molecular convergence and specificity.
- Subjects :
- 0303 health sciences
medicine.medical_specialty
Genomics
Neuropathology
Biology
medicine.disease
Mental illness
Phenotype
Genetic architecture
3. Good health
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
mental disorders
medicine
Autism
Bipolar disorder
Psychiatry
Gene
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
030304 developmental biology
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Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....72c83423ef55d6b819ebffde2af648ea
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1101/040022