Logo image
Singleton Deletions Throughout the Genome Increase Risk of Bipolar Disorder
Journal article   Open access   Peer reviewed

Singleton Deletions Throughout the Genome Increase Risk of Bipolar Disorder

Dandan Zhang, Lijun Cheng, Yudong Qian, Ney Alliey-Rodriguez, John R Kelsoe, Tiffany Greenwood, Caroline Nievergelt, Thomas B Barrett, Rebecca McKinney, Nicholas Schork, …
Molecular psychiatry, Vol.14(4), pp.376-380
04/2009
DOI: 10.1038/mp.2008.144
PMCID: PMC2735188
PMID: 19114987
url
https://doi.org/10.1038/mp.2008.144View
Published (Version of record) Open Access

Abstract

An overall burden of rare structural genomic variants has not been reported in Bipolar Disorder (BD), although there have been reports of cases with microduplication and microdeletion. Here, we present a genome wide copy number variant (CNV) survey of 1001 cases and 1034 controls using the Affymetrix SNP 6.0 SNP and CNV platform. Singleton deletions (deletions that appear only once in the dataset) more than 100 kilobases in length are present in 16.2% of BD cases in contrast to 12.3% of controls (permutation p = 0.007). This effect was more pronounced for age at onset of mania ≤ 18 years old. Our results strongly suggest that BD can result from the effects of multiple rare structural variants.

Details

Metrics

Logo image