Contribution of copy number variants to schizophrenia from a genome-wide study of 41,321 subjects

Psychosis Endophenotypes International Consortium, CNV and Schizophrenia Working Groups of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium

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Abstract

Copy number variants (CNVs) have been strongly implicated in the genetic etiology of schizophrenia (SCZ). However, genome-wide investigation of the contribution of CNV to risk has been hampered by limited sample sizes. We sought to address this obstacle by applying a centralized analysis pipeline to a SCZ cohort of 21,094 cases and 20,227 controls. A global enrichment of CNV burden was observed in cases (odds ratio (OR) = 1.11, P = 5.7 × 10-15), which persisted after excluding loci implicated in previous studies (OR = 1.07, P = 1.7 × 10-6). CNV burden was enriched for genes associated with synaptic function (OR = 1.68, P = 2.8 × 10-11) and neurobehavioral phenotypes in mouse (OR = 1.18, P = 7.3 × 10-5). Genome-wide significant evidence was obtained for eight loci, including 1q21.1, 2p16.3 (NRXN1), 3q29, 7q11.2, 15q13.3, distal 16p11.2, proximal 16p11.2 and 22q11.2. Suggestive support was found for eight additional candidate susceptibility and protective loci, which consisted predominantly of CNVs mediated by nonallelic homologous recombination.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)27-35
Number of pages9
JournalNature Genetics
Volume49
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2017
Externally publishedYes

Funding

FundersFunder number
Medical Research CouncilG0700995, MR/K013807/1, G1100583, G0600972, MR/L010305/1, MR/P005748/1, G0901310
Medical Research Council
National Institute of Mental HealthU01MH094421, U01MH094411, U01MH109539, U01MH109528, U01MH109501, U01MH109536, U01MH109514, R01MH095034
National Institute of Mental Health
Horizon 2020 Framework Programme692145
Horizon 2020 Framework Programme

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