A phenome-wide association and Mendelian Randomisation study of polygenic risk for depression in UK Biobank

Xueyi Shen, David M. Howard, Mark J. Adams, W. David Hill, Toni Kim Clarke, Mark J. Adams, Toni Kim Clarke, Andrew M. McIntosh, Ian J. Deary, Naomi R. Wray, Stephan Ripke, Manuel Mattheisen, Maciej Trzaskowski, Enda M. Byrne, Abdel Abdellaoui, Esben Agerbo, Tracy M. Air, Till F.M. Andlauer, Silviu Alin Bacanu, Marie Bækvad-HansenAartjan T.F. Beekman, Tim B. Bigdeli, Elisabeth B. Binder, Julien Bryois, Henriette N. Buttenschøn, Jonas Bybjerg-Grauholm, Na Cai, Enrique Castelao, Jane Hvarregaard Christensen, Jonathan R.I. Coleman, Lucía Colodro-Conde, Baptiste Couvy-Duchesne, Nick Craddock, Gregory E. Crawford, Gail Davies, Franziska Degenhardt, Eske M. Derks, Nese Direk, Conor V. Dolan, Erin C. Dunn, Thalia C. Eley, Valentina Escott-Price, Farnush Farhadi Hassan Kiadeh, Hilary K. Finucane, Jerome C. Foo, Thomas F. Hansen, Wesley Thompson, Shantel Marie Weinsheimer, Merete Nordentoft, Thomas Werge, Major Depressive Disorder Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium

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Abstract

Depression is a leading cause of worldwide disability but there remains considerable uncertainty regarding its neural and behavioural associations. Here, using non-overlapping Psychiatric Genomics Consortium (PGC) datasets as a reference, we estimate polygenic risk scores for depression (depression-PRS) in a discovery (N = 10,674) and replication (N = 11,214) imaging sample from UK Biobank. We report 77 traits that are significantly associated with depression-PRS, in both discovery and replication analyses. Mendelian Randomisation analysis supports a potential causal effect of liability to depression on brain white matter microstructure (β: 0.125 to 0.868, p FDR  < 0.043). Several behavioural traits are also associated with depression-PRS (β: 0.014 to 0.180, p FDR: 0.049 to 1.28 × 10 -14) and we find a significant and positive interaction between depression-PRS and adverse environmental exposures on mental health outcomes. This study reveals replicable associations between depression-PRS and white matter microstructure. Our results indicate that white matter microstructure differences may be a causal consequence of liability to depression.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftNature Communications
Vol/bind11
Udgave nummer1
Sider (fra-til)2301
ISSN2041-1722
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 8 maj 2020

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