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Direk N, Williams S, Smith JA, Ripke S, Air T, Amare AT, Amin N, Baune BT, Bennett DA, Blackwood DH, Boomsma D, Breen G, Buttenschøn HN, Byrne EM, Børglum AD, Castelao E, Cichon S, Clarke TK, Cornelis MC, Dannlowski U, De Jager PL, Demirkan A, Domenici E, van Duijn CM, Dunn EC, Eriksson JG, Esko T, Faul JD, Ferrucci L, Fornage M, de Geus E, Gill M, Gordon SD, Jörgen Grabe H, van Grootheest G, Hamilton SP, Hartman CA, Heath AC, Hek K, Hofman A, Homuth G, Horn C, Hottenga JJ, Kardia SL, Kloiber S, Koenen K, Kutalik Z, Ladwig KH, Lahti J, Levinson DF, Lewis CM, Lewis G, Li QS, Llewellyn DJ, Lucae S, Lunetta KL, MacIntyre DJ, Madden P, Martin NG, McIntosh AM, Metspalu A, Milaneschi Y, Montgomery GW, Mors O, Mosley TH, Murabito JM, Müller-Myhsok B, Nöthen MM, Nyholt DR, O’Donovan MC, Penninx BW, Pergadia ML, Perlis R, Potash JB, Preisig M, Purcell SM, Quiroz JA, Räikkönen K, Rice JP, Rietschel M, Rivera M, Schulze TG, Shi J, Shyn S, Sinnamon GC, Smit JH, Smoller JW, Snieder H, Tanaka T, Tansey KE, Teumer A, Uher R, Umbricht D, Van der Auwera S, Ware EB, Weir DR, Weissman MM, Willemsen G, Yang J, Zhao W, Tiemeier H, Sullivan PF. An Analysis of Two Genome-wide Association Meta-analyses Identifies a New Locus for Broad Depression Phenotype. Biol Psychiatry 2017; 82:322-329. [PMID: 28049566 PMCID: PMC5462867 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2016.11.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2016] [Revised: 11/11/2016] [Accepted: 11/22/2016] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND The genetics of depression has been explored in genome-wide association studies that focused on either major depressive disorder or depressive symptoms with mostly negative findings. A broad depression phenotype including both phenotypes has not been tested previously using a genome-wide association approach. We aimed to identify genetic polymorphisms significantly associated with a broad phenotype from depressive symptoms to major depressive disorder. METHODS We analyzed two prior studies of 70,017 participants of European ancestry from general and clinical populations in the discovery stage. We performed a replication meta-analysis of 28,328 participants. Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)-based heritability and genetic correlations were calculated using linkage disequilibrium score regression. Discovery and replication analyses were performed using a p-value-based meta-analysis. Lifetime major depressive disorder and depressive symptom scores were used as the outcome measures. RESULTS The SNP-based heritability of major depressive disorder was 0.21 (SE = 0.02), the SNP-based heritability of depressive symptoms was 0.04 (SE = 0.01), and their genetic correlation was 1.001 (SE = 0.2). We found one genome-wide significant locus related to the broad depression phenotype (rs9825823, chromosome 3: 61,082,153, p = 8.2 × 10-9) located in an intron of the FHIT gene. We replicated this SNP in independent samples (p = .02) and the overall meta-analysis of the discovery and replication cohorts (1.0 × 10-9). CONCLUSIONS This large study identified a new locus for depression. Our results support a continuum between depressive symptoms and major depressive disorder. A phenotypically more inclusive approach may help to achieve the large sample sizes needed to detect susceptibility loci for depression.
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Affiliation(s)
- Nese Direk
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands,Department of Psychiatry, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey
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- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA
| | - Jennifer A. Smith
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
| | - Stephan Ripke
- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, The Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA,Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA,Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité, Campus Mitte, Berlin, Germany
| | - Tracy Air
- Discipline of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
| | - Azmeraw T. Amare
- Discipline of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia,Department of Epidemiology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
| | - Najaf Amin
- Genetic Epidemiology Unit, Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Bernhard T. Baune
- Discipline of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
| | - David A. Bennett
- Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center & Department of Neurological Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Biological Psychology, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Gerome Breen
- MRC SGDP Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK
| | - Henriette N. Buttenschøn
- Translational Neuropsychiatry Unit, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Denmark,The Lundbeck Foundation Initiative for Integrative Psychiatric Research, iPSYCH, Denmark
| | - Enda M. Byrne
- The University of Queensland, Queensland Brain Institute, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia
| | - Anders D. Børglum
- The Lundbeck Foundation Initiative for Integrative Psychiatric Research, iPSYCH, Denmark,Department of Biomedicine and Centre for Integrative Sequencing, iSEQ, Aarhus University, Denmark
| | - Enrique Castelao
- Departement of Psychiatry, Lausanne University Hospital, Switzerland
| | - Sven Cichon
- Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany,Department of Genomics, Life & Brain Center, Bonn, Germany,Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany,Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
| | | | - Marilyn C. Cornelis
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago IL, USA
| | - Udo Dannlowski
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
| | - Philip L. De Jager
- Department of Neurology, Program in Translational NeuroPsychiatric Genomics, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA,Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA,Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
| | - Ayse Demirkan
- Genetic Epidemiology Unit, Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Enrico Domenici
- Centre for Integrative Biology, University of Trento, Trento, Italy,Roche Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development, Neuroscience, Ophthalmology and Rare Diseases Discovery & Translational Medicine Area, Roche Innovation Center Basel, F Hoffman-La Roche Ltd., Switzerland
| | - Cornelia M. van Duijn
- Genetic Epidemiology Unit, Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Erin C. Dunn
- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, The Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA,Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit, Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA,Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Johan G. Eriksson
- National Institute for Health and Welfare, Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, Helsinki, Finland,Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, University of Helsinki, Finland,Unit of General Practice, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Finland,Folkhalsan Research Centre, Helsinki, Finland,Vasa Central Hospital, Vasa, Finland
| | - Tonu Esko
- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia,Division of Endocrinology, Boston Children's Hospital, Cambridge, MA, USA,Program in Medical and Populational Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA,Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Jessica D. Faul
- Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
| | - Luigi Ferrucci
- Translational Gerontology Branch, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD, USA
| | - Myriam Fornage
- Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
| | - Eco de Geus
- Department of Biological Psychology, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Michael Gill
- Department of Psychiatry, Trinity Centre for Health Science, Dublin, Ireland
| | - Scott D. Gordon
- QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia
| | - Hans Jörgen Grabe
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Helios Hospital Stralsund, Germany,Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medicine Greifswald, Germany,German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Site Rostock/Greifswald, Germany
| | - Gerard van Grootheest
- Department of Psychiatry, Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam and EMGO Institute of Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Steven P. Hamilton
- Department of Psychiatry, Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Medical Center, CA, USA
| | - Catharina A. Hartman
- Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
| | - Andrew C. Heath
- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University St. Louis, Missouri, USA
| | - Karin Hek
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands,Department of Psychiatry, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Albert Hofman
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Georg Homuth
- Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, University of Greifswald, Germany
| | - Carsten Horn
- Roche Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development, Neuroscience, Ophthalmology and Rare Diseases Discovery & Translational Medicine Area, Roche Innovation Center Basel, F Hoffman-La Roche Ltd., Switzerland
| | - Jouke Jan Hottenga
- Department of Biological Psychology, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, USA
| | - Zoltán Kutalik
- Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (IUMSP), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland
| | - Karl-Heinz Ladwig
- Institute of Epidemiology II, Mental Health Research Unit, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Germany,Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - Jari Lahti
- Folkhalsan Research Centre, Helsinki, Finland,Institute of Behavioural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Douglas F. Levinson
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
| | - Cathryn M. Lewis
- MRC SGDP Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK
| | - Glyn Lewis
- Division of Psychiatry, University College London, London, UK
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- Boston University School of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics, Boston, MA, USA,Boston University and NHLBI's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA, USA
| | | | - Pamela Madden
- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia,Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
| | - Yuri Milaneschi
- Department of Psychiatry, Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam and EMGO Institute of Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
| | | | - Ole Mors
- The Lundbeck Foundation Initiative for Integrative Psychiatric Research, iPSYCH, Denmark,Research Department P, Aarhus University Hospital, Risskov, Denmark
| | - Thomas H. Mosley
- Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, USA
| | - Joanne M. Murabito
- Boston University and NHLBI's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA, USA,Boston University School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Section of General Internal Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Bertram Müller-Myhsok
- Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany,University of Liverpool, Institute of Translational Medicine, Liverpool, L69 3BX, UK,Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (SyNergy), Munich, Germany
| | - Markus M. Nöthen
- Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany,Department of Genomics, Life & Brain Center, Bonn, Germany
| | - Dale R. Nyholt
- QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia,Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
| | - Michael C. O’Donovan
- MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, Institute of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
| | - Brenda W. Penninx
- Department of Psychiatry, Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam and EMGO Institute of Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Michele L. Pergadia
- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University St. Louis, Missouri, USA,Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA
| | - Roy Perlis
- Center for Experimental Drugs and Diagnostics, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
| | - James B. Potash
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA, USA
| | - Martin Preisig
- Departement of Psychiatry, Lausanne University Hospital, Switzerland
| | - Shaun M. Purcell
- Division of Psychiatric Genomics, Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA
| | - Jorge A. Quiroz
- Roche Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development, Neuroscience, Ophthalmology and Rare Diseases Discovery & Translational Medicine Area, Roche Innovation Center Basel, F Hoffman-La Roche Ltd., Switzerland,Solid GT, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Katri Räikkönen
- Institute of Behavioural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
| | - John P. Rice
- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University St. Louis, Missouri, USA
| | - Marcella Rietschel
- Department of Genetic Epidemiology in Psychiatry, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim/Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
| | - Margarita Rivera
- MRC SGDP Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK,CIBERSAM-Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain,Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria ibs.GRANADA. Hospitales Universitarios de Granada/Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain
| | - Thomas G. Schulze
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany,Institute of Psychiatric Phenomics and Genomics, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, 80336 Munich, Germany
| | - Jianxin Shi
- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
| | | | - Grant C. Sinnamon
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychiatric Neuroscience, School of Medicine and Dentistry, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia
| | - Johannes H. Smit
- Department of Psychiatry, Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam and EMGO Institute of Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Jordan W. Smoller
- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, The Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA,Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit, Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA,Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Harold Snieder
- Unit of Genetic Epidemiology & Bioinformatics, Department of Epidemiology, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
| | - Toshiko Tanaka
- Translational Gerontology Branch, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD, USA
| | - Katherine E. Tansey
- MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, Institute of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
| | - Alexander Teumer
- Institute for Community Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Germany
| | - Rudolf Uher
- MRC SGDP Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK,Dalhousie University, 6299 South St, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4R2, Canada
| | - Daniel Umbricht
- Roche Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development, Neuroscience, Ophthalmology and Rare Diseases Discovery & Translational Medicine Area, Roche Innovation Center Basel, F Hoffman-La Roche Ltd., Switzerland
| | - Sandra Van der Auwera
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medicine Greifswald, Germany,German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Site Rostock/Greifswald, Germany
| | - Erin B. Ware
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA,Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
| | - David R. Weir
- Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
| | - Myrna M. Weissman
- College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, USA
| | - Gonneke Willemsen
- Department of Biological Psychology, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Jingyun Yang
- Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center & Department of Neurological Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA
| | - Wei Zhao
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
| | - Henning Tiemeier
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam; Department of Psychiatry, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam.
| | - Patrick F. Sullivan
- Center for Psychiatric Genomics, Department of Genetics, Genomic Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA,Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA,Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
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