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DNA sequence-level analyses reveal potential phenotypic modifiers in a large family with psychiatric disorders.

ABSTRACT: Psychiatric disorders are a group of genetically related diseases with highly polygenic architectures. Genome-wide association analyses have made substantial progress towards understanding the genetic architecture of these disorders. More recently, exome- and whole-genome sequencing of cases and families have identified rare, high penetrant variants that provide direct functional insight. There remains, however, a gap in the heritability explained by these complementary approaches. To understand how multiple genetic variants combine to modify both severity and penetrance of a highly penetrant variant, we sequenced 48 whole genomes from a family with a high loading of psychiatric disorder linked to a balanced chromosomal translocation. The (1;11)(q42;q14.3) translocation directly disrupts three genes: DISC1, DISC2, DISC1FP and has been linked to multiple brain imaging and neurocognitive outcomes in the family. Using DNA sequence-level linkage analysis, functional annotation and population-based association, we identified common and rare variants in GRM5 (minor allele frequency (MAF)?>?0.05), PDE4D (MAF?>?0.2) and CNTN5 (MAF?

SUBMITTER: Ryan NM

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6294736 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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DNA sequence-level analyses reveal potential phenotypic modifiers in a large family with psychiatric disorders.

Ryan Niamh M NM Lihm Jayon J Kramer Melissa M McCarthy Shane S Morris Stewart W SW Arnau-Soler Aleix A Davies Gail G Duff Barbara B Ghiban Elena E Hayward Caroline C Deary Ian J IJ Blackwood Douglas H R DHR Lawrie Stephen M SM McIntosh Andrew M AM Evans Kathryn L KL Porteous David J DJ McCombie W Richard WR Thomson Pippa A PA

Molecular psychiatry 20180607 12

Psychiatric disorders are a group of genetically related diseases with highly polygenic architectures. Genome-wide association analyses have made substantial progress towards understanding the genetic architecture of these disorders. More recently, exome- and whole-genome sequencing of cases and families have identified rare, high penetrant variants that provide direct functional insight. There remains, however, a gap in the heritability explained by these complementary approaches. To understand ...[more]

PMID: 29880880

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DNA sequence-level analyses reveal potential phenotypic modifiers in a large family with psychiatric disorders.

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DNA sequence-level analyses reveal potential phenotypic modifiers in a large family with psychiatric disorders.

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