| Title: | Cross-trait genome-wide association analysis of C-reactive protein level and psychiatric disorders |
| Journal: | Psychoneuroendocrinology |
| Published: | 22 Aug 2023 |
| Pubmed: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37659117/ |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2023.106368 |
Publication 9726
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Abstract
C-reactive protein (CRP) tends to be elevated in individuals with psychiatric disorders. Recent findings have suggested a protective effect of the genetic liability to elevated CRP on schizophrenia risk and a causative effect on depression despite weak genetic correlations, while causal relationships with bipolar disorder were inconclusive. We investigated the shared genetic underpinnings of psychiatric disorders and variation in CRP levels. Genome-wide association studies for CRP (n = 575,531), bipolar disorder (n = 413,466), depression (n = 480,359), and schizophrenia (n = 130,644) were used in causal mixture models to compare CRP with psychiatric disorders based on polygenicity, discoverability, and genome-wide genetic overlap. The conjunctional false discovery rate method was used to identify specific shared genetic loci. Shared variants were mapped to putative causal genes, which were tested for overrepresentation among gene ontology gene-sets. CRP was six to ten times less polygenic (n = 1400 vs 8600-14,500 variants) and had a discoverability one to two orders of magnitude higher than psychiatric disorders. Most CRP-associated variants were overlapping with psychiatric disorders. We identified 401 genetic loci jointly associated with CRP and psychiatric disorders with mixed effect directions. Gene-set enrichment analyses identified predominantly CNS-related gene sets for CRP and each of depression and schizophrenia, and basic cellular processes for CRP and bipolar disorder. In conclusion, CRP has a markedly different genetic architecture to psychiatric disorders, but the majority of CRP associated variants are also implicated in psychiatric disorders. Shared genetic loci implicated CNS-related processes to a greater extent than immune processes, which may have implications for how we conceptualise causal relationships between CRP and psychiatric disorders.</p>
20 Authors
- Guy Hindley
- Ole Kristian Drange
- Aihua Lin
- Gleda Kutrolli
- Alexey A Shadrin
- Nadine Parker
- Kevin S O'Connell
- Linn Rødevand
- Weiqiu Cheng
- Shahram Bahrami
- Naz Karadag
- Børge Holen
- Piotr Jaholkowski
- Markos Tesfaye Woldeyohannes
- Srdjan Djurovic
- Anders M Dale
- Oleksandr Frei
- Thor Ueland
- Olav B Smeland
- Ole A Andreassen
1 Application
| Application ID | Title |
|---|---|
| 22627 | Fine-mapping genotype-phenotype associations |
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