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Genome-wide association study in individuals of European and African ancestry and multi-trait analysis of opioid use disorder identifies 19 independent genome-wide significant risk loci
Deak JD, Zhou H, Galimberti M, Levey DF, Wendt FR, Sanchez-Roige S, Hatoum AS, Johnson EC, Nunez YZ, Demontis D, Børglum AD, Rajagopal VM, Jennings MV, Kember RL, Justice AC, Edenberg HJ, Agrawal A, Polimanti R, Kranzler HR, Gelernter J. Genome-wide association study in individuals of European and African ancestry and multi-trait analysis of opioid use disorder identifies 19 independent genome-wide significant risk loci. Molecular Psychiatry 2022, 27: 3970-3979. PMID: 35879402, PMCID: PMC9718667, DOI: 10.1038/s41380-022-01709-1.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsGenome-wide association studiesGenome-wide significant risk lociAssociation studiesVariant associationsLarge-scale genome-wide association studiesGenetic correlationsSignificant risk lociPsychiatric Genomics ConsortiumMulti-trait analysisPolygenic risk score analysisSingle-variant associationsGWS lociGenetic architectureIndividuals of EuropeanGWS associationsRisk lociGene regionGenomics ConsortiumMillion Veteran ProgramSusceptibility lociAfrican ancestryLociRisk score analysisGenetic informativenessSNPs one
2018
Discovery of the first genome-wide significant risk loci for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder
Demontis D, Walters RK, Martin J, Mattheisen M, Als TD, Agerbo E, Baldursson G, Belliveau R, Bybjerg-Grauholm J, Bækvad-Hansen M, Cerrato F, Chambert K, Churchhouse C, Dumont A, Eriksson N, Gandal M, Goldstein JI, Grasby KL, Grove J, Gudmundsson OO, Hansen CS, Hauberg ME, Hollegaard MV, Howrigan DP, Huang H, Maller JB, Martin AR, Martin NG, Moran J, Pallesen J, Palmer DS, Pedersen CB, Pedersen MG, Poterba T, Poulsen JB, Ripke S, Robinson EB, Satterstrom FK, Stefansson H, Stevens C, Turley P, Walters GB, Won H, Wright MJ, Andreassen O, Asherson P, Burton C, Boomsma D, Cormand B, Dalsgaard S, Franke B, Gelernter J, Geschwind D, Hakonarson H, Haavik J, Kranzler H, Kuntsi J, Langley K, Lesch K, Middeldorp C, Reif A, Rohde L, Roussos P, Schachar R, Sklar P, Sonuga-Barke E, Sullivan P, Thapar A, Tung J, Waldman I, Medland S, Stefansson K, Nordentoft M, Hougaard D, Werge T, Mors O, Mortensen P, Daly M, Faraone S, Børglum A, Neale B. Discovery of the first genome-wide significant risk loci for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Nature Genetics 2018, 51: 63-75. PMID: 30478444, PMCID: PMC6481311, DOI: 10.1038/s41588-018-0269-7.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsGenome-wide significant risk lociFunction intolerant genesGenome-wide associationSignificant risk lociGenome-wide significanceAttention-deficit/hyperactivity disorderCommon genetic variantsGenomic regionsIntolerant genesIndependent lociRegulatory marksHeritable traitRisk lociDeficit/hyperactivity disorderGenetic variantsGenetic overlapStudy-specific differencesLociHyperactivity disorderImportant new informationUnderlying biologyChildhood behavioral disordersVariantsStrong concordanceGWAS