@article{ca82d7f549c44b4186954b2acec2b768,
title = "Genome-wide association study identifies five new schizophrenia loci",
abstract = "We examined the role of common genetic variation in schizophrenia in a genome-wide association study of substantial size: a stage 1 discovery sample of 21,856 individuals of European ancestry and a stage 2 replication sample of 29,839 independent subjects. The combined stage 1 and 2 analysis yielded genome-wide significant associations with schizophrenia for seven loci, five of which are new (1p21.3, 2q32.3, 8p23.2, 8q21.3 and 10q24.32-q24.33) and two of which have been previously implicated (6p21.32-p22.1 and 18q21.2). The strongest new finding (P = 1.6 × 10(-11)) was with rs1625579 within an intron of a putative primary transcript for MIR137 (microRNA 137), a known regulator of neuronal development. Four other schizophrenia loci achieving genome-wide significance contain predicted targets of MIR137, suggesting MIR137-mediated dysregulation as a previously unknown etiologic mechanism in schizophrenia. In a joint analysis with a bipolar disorder sample (16,374 affected individuals and 14,044 controls), three loci reached genome-wide significance: CACNA1C (rs4765905, P = 7.0 × 10(-9)), ANK3 (rs10994359, P = 2.5 × 10(-8)) and the ITIH3-ITIH4 region (rs2239547, P = 7.8 × 10(-9)).",
author = "Stephan Ripke and Sanders, {Alan R} and Kendler, {Kenneth S} and Levinson, {Douglas F} and Pamela Sklar and Holmans, {Peter A} and Dan-Yu Lin and Jubao Duan and Ophoff, {Roel A} and Andreassen, {Ole A} and Edward Scolnick and Sven Cichon and {St Clair}, David and Aiden Corvin and Hugh Gurling and Thomas Werge and Dan Rujescu and Blackwood, {Douglas H R} and Pato, {Carlos N} and Malhotra, {Anil K} and Shaun Purcell and Frank Dudbridge and Neale, {Benjamin M} and Lizzy Rossin and Visscher, {Peter M} and Danielle Posthuma and Ruderfer, {Douglas M} and Ayman Fanous and Hreinn Stefansson and Stacy Steinberg and Mowry, {Bryan J} and Vera Golimbet and {De Hert}, Marc and J{\"o}nsson, {Erik G} and Istv{\'a}n Bitter and Pietil{\"a}inen, {Olli P H} and Collier, {David A} and Anders Fink-Jensen and Birte Glenth{\o}j and Andr{\'e}s Ingason and Jakobsen, {Klaus D} and Gesche J{\"u}rgens and Merete Nordentoft and Line Olsen and Rasmussen, {Henrik B} and Thygesen, {Johan H} and Sally Timm and Wang, {August G} and {The Schizophrenia Psychiatric Genome-Wide Association Study (GWAS) Consortium} and Werge, {Thomas Mears} and Hansen, {Thomas Folkmann}",
year = "2011",
month = sep,
day = "18",
doi = "10.1038/ng.940",
language = "English",
volume = "43",
pages = "969--976",
journal = "Nature Genetics",
issn = "1061-4036",
publisher = "Nature Publishing Group",
}