2024
T32. GENETIC ARCHITECTURE OF BIPOLAR SPECTRUM DISORDERS IN NEARLY 102,000 LATINO ANCESTRY INDIVIDUALS
Bigdeli T, Voloudakis G, Chatzinakos C, Barr P, Gorman B, Peterson R, Pyarajan S, Huang G, Gaziano M, Pato M, Fanous A, Pato C, Aslan M, Roussos P, Harvey P. T32. GENETIC ARCHITECTURE OF BIPOLAR SPECTRUM DISORDERS IN NEARLY 102,000 LATINO ANCESTRY INDIVIDUALS. European Neuropsychopharmacology 2024, 87: 173-174. DOI: 10.1016/j.euroneuro.2024.08.342.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchGenome-wide association studiesPolygenic risk scoresEuropean ancestryMillion Veteran ProgramAdmixed AmericansGenomic Psychiatry CohortGenome-wide association study analysisGenome-wide significant signalsMulti-ancestry meta-analysisLocal ancestry inferenceStatistical fine-mappingBipolar disorderCooperative Studies ProgramGenomic structural equation modelingLatino individualsAncestry inferencePRS-CSxTrans-diagnostic approachBipolar spectrum disordersEast Asian populationsFine-mappingAssociation studiesGWAS statisticsPsychiatric genetic researchAncestry individuals
2021
Bi-ancestral depression GWAS in the Million Veteran Program and meta-analysis in >1.2 million individuals highlight new therapeutic directions
Levey DF, Stein MB, Wendt FR, Pathak GA, Zhou H, Aslan M, Quaden R, Harrington KM, Nuñez YZ, Overstreet C, Radhakrishnan K, Sanacora G, McIntosh AM, Shi J, Shringarpure SS, Concato J, Polimanti R, Gelernter J. Bi-ancestral depression GWAS in the Million Veteran Program and meta-analysis in >1.2 million individuals highlight new therapeutic directions. Nature Neuroscience 2021, 24: 954-963. PMID: 34045744, PMCID: PMC8404304, DOI: 10.1038/s41593-021-00860-2.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsTranscriptome-wide association studyMillion Veteran ProgramTranscriptome-wide association study (TWAS) analysisGenomic risk lociComplex psychiatric traitsGenetic architectureRisk lociGene expressionAssociation studiesLikely pathogenicityPsychiatric traitsVeteran ProgramNew therapeutic directionEuropean ancestryNew insightsAncestryUK BiobankAfrican ancestrySubstantial replicationExpressionLarge independent cohortsGWASTherapeutic directionsGenesLoci