Journal article
A genome-wide association study of attempted suicide
Molecular psychiatry, Vol.17(4), pp.433-444
03/01/2011
DOI: 10.1038/mp.2011.4
PMCID: PMC4021719
PMID: 21423239
Abstract
The heritable component to attempted and completed suicide is partly related to psychiatric disorders and also partly independent of them. While attempted suicide linkage regions have been identified on 2p11–12 and 6q25–26, there are likely many more such loci, the discovery of which will require a much higher resolution approach, such as the genome-wide association study (GWAS). With this in mind, we conducted an attempted suicide GWAS that compared the single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotypes of 1,201 bipolar (BP) subjects with a history of suicide attempts to the genotypes of 1,497 BP subjects without a history of suicide attempts. 2,507 SNPs with evidence for association at p<0.001 were identified. These associated SNPs were subsequently tested for association in a large and independent BP sample set. None of these SNPs were significantly associated in the replication sample after correcting for multiple testing, but the combined analysis of the two sample sets produced an association signal on 2p25 (rs300774) at the threshold of genome-wide significance (p= 5.07 × 10−8). The associated SNPs on 2p25 fall in a large linkage disequilibrium block containing the ACP1 gene, a gene whose expression is significantly elevated in BP subjects who have completed suicide. Furthermore, the ACP1 protein is a tyrosine phosphatase that influences Wnt signaling, a pathway regulated by lithium, making ACP1 a functional candidate for involvement in the phenotype. Larger GWAS sample sets will be required to confirm the signal on 2p25 and to identify additional genetic risk factors increasing susceptibility for attempted suicide.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- A genome-wide association study of attempted suicide
- Creators
- Virginia L WillourFayaz SeifuddinPamela B MahonDubravka JancicMehdi PiroozniaJo SteeleBarbara SchweizerFrancis M MondimoreDean F MackinnonRoy H PerlisPhil Hyoun LeeJie Huang - Massachusetts General HospitalJohn R KelsoePaul D ShillingMarcella RietschelMarkus NöthenSven CichonHugh GurlingShaun PurcellJordan W SmollerNicholas CraddockJ. Raymond DepauloThomas G SchulzeFrancis J McmahonPeter P ZandiJames B PotashBipolar Disorder Genome Study (BiGS) Consortium
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Molecular psychiatry, Vol.17(4), pp.433-444
- DOI
- 10.1038/mp.2011.4
- PMID
- 21423239
- PMCID
- PMC4021719
- NLM abbreviation
- Mol Psychiatry
- ISSN
- 1359-4184
- eISSN
- 1476-5578
- Grant note
- 5R01MH059548-02 / National Institutes of Health (nih_________::NIH) 5R01MH059545-07 / National Institutes of Health (nih_________::NIH) 1R01MH060068-01 / National Institutes of Health (nih_________::NIH) 1Z01MH002810-01 / National Institutes of Health (nih_________::NIH) 5R01MH059533-06 / National Institutes of Health (nih_________::NIH) 1U01MH046282-01 / National Institutes of Health (nih_________::NIH) 5R01MH059535-08 / National Institutes of Health (nih_________::NIH) unidentified / Wellcome Trust (wt__________::WT) 5R01MH059567-07 / National Institutes of Health (nih_________::NIH) 5U01MH046274-02 / National Institutes of Health (nih_________::NIH) 5R01MH059556-07 / National Institutes of Health (nih_________::NIH) 5R01MH059553-06 / National Institutes of Health (nih_________::NIH) 1K02DA021237-01A2 / National Institutes of Health (nih_________::NIH) 5R01MH059534-06 / National Institutes of Health (nih_________::NIH) 1R01MH079799-01 / National Institutes of Health (nih_________::NIH) 3U01MH046280-08S1 / National Institutes of Health (nih_________::NIH)
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/01/2011
- Academic Unit
- Psychiatry; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984003981202771
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