Associations between genetic liabilities to smoking behavior and schizophrenia symptoms in patients with a psychotic disorder, their siblings and healthy controls
Lin B, Vermeulen J, Bolhuis K, Chang X, Schirmbeck F, van Eijk K, investigators G, Alizadeh B, Bartels-Velthuis A, van Amelsvoort T, Bruggeman R, Cahn W, de Haan L, Rutten B, Guloksuz S, Luykx J, van Os J, Simons C, van Winkel R, Guloksuz S, Blankers M, van den Brink W, de Haan L, Luykx J. Associations between genetic liabilities to smoking behavior and schizophrenia symptoms in patients with a psychotic disorder, their siblings and healthy controls. Psychiatry Research 2023, 323: 115143. PMID: 36948018, DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2023.115143.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsHealthy controlsSmoking behaviorPsychotic symptomsSchizophrenia symptomsUnaffected siblingsProspective cohort studySix-year followMental health symptomsSymptom dimensionsCohort studyRisk factorsDepressive symptomsPsychotic disordersPatientsPositive symptomsHealth symptomsNegative symptomsSimilar effect sizesSymptomsLinear mixed-effects modelsMixed-effects modelsGenetic riskMean numberPolygenic scoresOverall sample