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Genetic and childhood trauma interaction effect on age of onset in bipolar disorder: An exploratory analysis.

ABSTRACT: This study investigated whether early life trauma mediates genetic effects on the age at onset (AAO) of bipolar disorder.Data from the BiGS Consortium case samples (N=1119) were used. Childhood traumatic events were documented using the Childhood Life Events Scale (CLES). Interaction between occurrence of childhood trauma and common genetic variants throughout the genome was tested to identify single nucleotide polymorphic gene variants (SNPs) whose effects on bipolar AAO differ between individuals clearly exposed (CLES?2) and not exposed (CLES=0) to childhood trauma.The modal response to the CLES was 0 (N=480), but an additional 276 subjects had CLES=1, and 363 subjects reported 2 or more traumatic lifetime events. The distribution of age at onset showed a broad peak between ages 12 and 18, with the majority of subjects having onset during that period, and a significant decrease in age of onset with the number of traumatic events. No single SNP showed a statistically significant interaction with the presence of traumatic events to impact bipolar age at onset. However, SNPs in or near genes coding for calcium channel activity-related proteins (Gene Ontology: 0005262) were found to be more likely than other SNPs to show evidence of interaction using the INRICH method (p<0.001).Retrospective ascertainment of trauma and AAO.Interaction effects of early life trauma with genotype may have a significant effect on the development and manifestation of bipolar disorder. These effects may be mediated in part by genes involved in calcium signaling.

SUBMITTER: Anand A

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5845791 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Genetic and childhood trauma interaction effect on age of onset in bipolar disorder: An exploratory analysis.

Anand Amit A Koller Daniel L DL Lawson William B WB Gershon Elliot S ES Nurnberger John I JI

Journal of affective disorders 20150310

<h4>Introduction</h4>This study investigated whether early life trauma mediates genetic effects on the age at onset (AAO) of bipolar disorder.<h4>Method</h4>Data from the BiGS Consortium case samples (N=1119) were used. Childhood traumatic events were documented using the Childhood Life Events Scale (CLES). Interaction between occurrence of childhood trauma and common genetic variants throughout the genome was tested to identify single nucleotide polymorphic gene variants (SNPs) whose effects on ...[more]

PMID: 25837715

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Project description:ObjectiveIn this study, we performed a candidate genetic risk score (GRS) analysis of early-onset bipolar disorder (BD).MethodsTreatment of Early Age Mania (TEAM) study enrollment and sample collection took place from 2003 to 2008. Mayo Clinic Bipolar Biobank samples were collected from 2009 to 2013. Genotyping and analyses for the present study took place from 2013 to 2014. The diagnosis of BD was based on Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision criteria. Eight single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), previously reported in genome-wide association studies to be associated with BD, were chosen for GRS analysis in early-onset bipolar disease. These SNPs map to 3 genes: CACNA1C (calcium channel, voltage-dependent, L type, alpha 1C subunit), ANK3 (ankyrin-3, node of Ranvier [ankyrin G]), and ODZ4 (teneurin transmembrane protein 4 [formerly "odz, odd Oz/10-m homolog 4 {Drosophila}, ODZ4"]). The 8 candidate SNPs were genotyped in patients from the TEAM study (n = 69); adult patients with BD (n = 732), including a subset with early-onset illness (n = 192); and healthy controls (n = 776). GRS analyses were performed to compare early-onset cases with controls. In addition, associations of early-onset BD with individual SNPs and haplotypes were explored.ResultsGRS analysis revealed associations of the risk score with early-onset BD (P = .01). Gene-level haplotype analysis comparing TEAM patients with controls suggested association of early-onset BD with a CACNA1C haplotype (global test, P = .01). At the level of individual SNPs, comparison of TEAM cases with healthy controls provided nominally significant evidence for association of SNP rs10848632 in CACNA1C with early-onset BD (P = .017), which did not remain significant after correction for multiple comparisons.ConclusionsThese preliminary analyses suggest that previously identified BD risk loci, especially CACNA1C, have a role in early-onset BD, possibly with stronger effects than for late-onset BD.

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Genetic and childhood trauma interaction effect on age of onset in bipolar disorder: An exploratory analysis.

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Genetic and childhood trauma interaction effect on age of onset in bipolar disorder: An exploratory analysis.

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