2022
Understanding the comorbidity between posttraumatic stress severity and coronary artery disease using genome-wide information and electronic health records
Polimanti R, Wendt FR, Pathak GA, Tylee DS, Tcheandjieu C, Hilliard AT, Levey DF, Adhikari K, Gaziano JM, O’Donnell C, Assimes TL, Stein MB, Gelernter J. Understanding the comorbidity between posttraumatic stress severity and coronary artery disease using genome-wide information and electronic health records. Molecular Psychiatry 2022, 27: 3961-3969. PMID: 35986173, PMCID: PMC10986859, DOI: 10.1038/s41380-022-01735-z.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCoronary artery diseasePosttraumatic stress disorderElectronic health recordsMillion Veteran ProgramArtery diseaseTotal scoreCAD diagnosisPlatelet amyloid precursor proteinHealth recordsPosttraumatic stress severityAmyloid precursor proteinEarly CAD diagnosisUK BiobankBidirectional relationshipTwo-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) analysisMendelian randomization analysisCAD riskHigh morbidityPTSD symptom severityCARDIoGRAMplusC4D consortiumPleiotropic mechanismsSymptom severityLongitudinal changesDiscordant effectsStress disorder
2021
Drinking and smoking polygenic risk is associated with childhood and early-adulthood psychiatric and behavioral traits independently of substance use and psychiatric genetic risk
De Angelis F, Wendt FR, Pathak GA, Tylee DS, Goswami A, Gelernter J, Polimanti R. Drinking and smoking polygenic risk is associated with childhood and early-adulthood psychiatric and behavioral traits independently of substance use and psychiatric genetic risk. Translational Psychiatry 2021, 11: 586. PMID: 34775470, PMCID: PMC8590689, DOI: 10.1038/s41398-021-01713-z.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSubstance useYoung adultsBehavioral traitsPhiladelphia Neurodevelopmental CohortRemoval of participantsAnxiety-related traitsRisk-taking behaviorVerbal reasoningCognitive performancePolygenic risk scoresSocial competenciesNeurobiological processesNeurodevelopmental CohortPsychiatric genetic riskDrinking behaviorParent educationPRS associationsPolygenic riskPsychopathologyGenetic overlapPsychotic symptomsAdverse health outcomesHazardous behaviorEducational attainmentTobacco smoking
2019
A polygenic resilience score moderates the genetic risk for schizophrenia
Hess JL, Tylee DS, Mattheisen M, Børglum A, Als T, Grove J, Werge T, Mortensen P, Mors O, Nordentoft M, Hougaard D, Byberg-Grauholm J, Bækvad-Hansen M, Greenwood T, Tsuang M, Curtis D, Steinberg S, Sigurdsson E, Stefánsson H, Stefánsson K, Edenberg H, Holmans P, Faraone S, Glatt S. A polygenic resilience score moderates the genetic risk for schizophrenia. Molecular Psychiatry 2019, 26: 800-815. PMID: 31492941, PMCID: PMC7058518, DOI: 10.1038/s41380-019-0463-8.Peer-Reviewed Original Research