Common Variants at VRK2 and TCF4 Conferring Risk of Schizophrenia

Stacy Steinberg, Simone de Jong, Ole A Andreassen, Thomas Werge, Anders Børglum, Ole Mors, Preben Bo Mortensen, Omar Gustafsson, Javier Costas, Olli P H Pietiläinen, Ditte Demontis, Sergi Papiol, Johanna Huttenlocher, Manuel Mattheisen, René Breuer, Evangelos Vassos, Ina Giegling, Gillian Fraser, Nicholas Walker, Annamari Tuulio-HenrikssonJaana Suvisaari, Jouko Lönnqvist, Tiina Paunio, Ingrid Agartz, Ingrid Melle, Srdjan Djurovic, Eric Strengman, Gesche Jürgens, Birte Glenthøj, Lars Terenius, David M Hougaard, Torben Orntoft, Carsten Henrik Wiuf, Michael Didriksen, Mads Vilhelm Hollegaard, Merete Nordentoft, Ruud van Winkel, Gunter Kenis, Lilia Abramova, Vasily Kaleda, Manuel Arrojo, Julio Sanjuán, Celso Arango, Swetlana Sperling, Moritz Rossner, Michele Ribolsi, Valentina Magni, Alberto Siracusano, Claus Christiansen, Lambertus A Kiemeney, Irish Schizophrenia Genomics Consortium

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Abstract

Common sequence variants have recently joined rare structural polymorphisms as genetic factors with strong evidence for association with schizophrenia. Here we extend our previous genome-wide association (GWA) study and meta-analysis (totalling 7,946 cases and 19,036 controls) by examining an expanded set of variants using an enlarged follow-up sample (up to 10,260 cases and 23,500 controls). In addition to previously-reported alleles in the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) region, near neurogranin (NRGN) and in an intron of transcription factor 4 (TCF4), we find two novel variants showing genome-wide significant association: rs2312147[C], upstream of vaccinia-related kinase 2 (VRK2) (OR = 1.09, P = 1.9 x 10(-9)), and rs4309482[A], between coiled-coiled domain containing 68 (CCDC68) and TCF4, about 400 kb from the previously-described risk allele, but not accounted for by its association (OR = 1.09, P = 7.8 x 10(-9)).
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftHuman Molecular Genetics
Vol/bind20
Udgave nummer20
Sider (fra-til)4076-4081
ISSN0964-6906
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 26 jul. 2011

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