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2. Health status and mobility limitations are associated with residential and employment status in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder
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Strassnig, M., Cornacchio, D., Harvey, P.D., Kotov, R., Fochtmann, L., and Bromet, E.J.
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- 2017
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3. A 25 Year Retrospective Review of the Psychological Consequences of the Chernobyl Accident
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Bromet, E.J., Havenaar, J.M., and Guey, L.T.
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- 2011
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4. Contributions of common genetic variants to risk of schizophrenia among individuals of African and Latino ancestry
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Macedo, A., Evgrafov, O.V., McCarroll, S.A., Marder, S.R., Vawter, M.P., Bromet, E.J., Sullivan, P.F., Purcell, S.M., Azevedo, M.H., Kotov, R., Rakofsky, J.J., Nicolini, H., Moran, J.L., Pato, M.T., Genovese, G., Dumont, A.L., Fochtmann, L.J., Braff, D.L., Smoller, J.W., Peterson, R.E., Bigdeli, T.B, Chapman, S.B., Rapaport, M.H., Belliveau, R.A., Kennedy, J.L., Achtyes, E.D., O'Dushlaine, C., Nemesh, J., Sklar, B.M., Medeiros, H., Perkins, D.O., Sklar, P., Iyegbe, C.O., Escamilla, M.A., Bevilacqua, E., Knowles, J.A., Scolnick, E.M., Morley, C.P., Carvalho, C.B., Sobell, J.L., Genomic Psychiatry Cohort (GPC) Consortium, Malaspina, D., Lehrer, D.S., Gage, D., DeLisi, L.E., Macciardi, F., Dewan, M.J., Meyers, J.L., Consortium on the Genetics of Schizophrenia (COGS) Investigators, Abbott, C., Kinkead, B., Georgakopoulos, P., Gur, R.E., Stahl, E.A., Gur, R.C., Valderrama, J., Buckley, P.F., Byerley, W., and Pato, C.N.
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Schizophrenia is a common, chronic and debilitating neuropsychiatric syndrome affecting tens of millions of individuals worldwide. While rare genetic variants play a role in the etiology of schizophrenia, most of the currently explained liability is within common variation, suggesting that variation predating the human diaspora out of Africa harbors a large fraction of the common variant attributable heritability. However, common variant association studies in schizophrenia have concentrated mainly on cohorts of European descent. We describe genome-wide association studies of 6152 cases and 3918 controls of admixed African ancestry, and of 1234 cases and 3090 controls of Latino ancestry, representing the largest such study in these populations to date. Combining results from the samples with African ancestry with summary statistics from the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium (PGC) study of schizophrenia yielded seven newly genome-wide significant loci, and we identified an additional eight loci by incorporating the results from samples with Latino ancestry. Leveraging population differences in patterns of linkage disequilibrium, we achieve improved fine-mapping resolution at 22 previously reported and 4 newly significant loci. Polygenic risk score profiling revealed improved prediction based on trans-ancestry meta-analysis results for admixed African (Nagelkerke���s R2 = 0.032; liability R2 = 0.017; P < 10���52), Latino (Nagelkerke���s R2 = 0.089; liability R2 = 0.021; P < 10���58), and European individuals (Nagelkerke���s R2 = 0.089; liability R2 = 0.037; P < 10���113), further highlighting the advantages of incorporating data from diverse human populations.
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- 2020
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5. Association of DSM-IV posttraumatic stress disorder with traumatic experience type and history in the World Health Organization World Mental Health surveys
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Liu, H., Petukhova, M.V., Sampson, N.A., Aguilar-Gaxiola, S., Alonso, J., Andrade, L.H., Bromet, E.J., De Girolamo, G., Haro, J.M., Hinkov, H., Kawakami, N., Koenen, K.C., Kovess-Masfety, V., Lee, S., Medina-Mora, M.E., Navarro-Mateu, F., O'Neill, S., Piazza, M., Posada-Villa, J., Scott, K.M., Shahly, V., Stein, D.J., Ten Have, M., Torres, Y., Gureje, O., Zaslavsky, A.M., Kessler, R.C., Al-Hamzawi, A., Al-Kaisy, M.S., Benjet, C., Borges, G., Bruffaerts, R., Bunting, B., De Almeida, J.M.C., Cardoso, G., Chatterji, S., Cia, A.H., Degenhardt, L., De Jonge, P., Demyttenaere, K., Fayyad, J., Florescu, S., He, Y., Hu, C.-Y., Huang, Y., Karam, A.N., Karam, E.G., Kiejna, A., Lepine, J.-P., Levinson, D., McGrath, J., Moskalewicz, J., Pennell, B.-E., Slade, T., Stagnaro, J.C., Viana, M.C., Whiteford, H., Williams, D.R., Wojtyniak, B., and NOVA Medical School|Faculdade de Ciências Médicas (NMS|FCM)
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Adult ,Cross-Cultural Comparison ,Male ,exposure to violence ,SDG 5 - Gender Equality ,SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions ,life event ,cultural factor ,Resilience, Psychological ,psychology ,World Health Organization ,Health Surveys ,health survey ,Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ,Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic ,Life Change Events ,female ,Cross-Sectional Studies ,psychological resilience ,SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being ,middle aged ,statistics and numerical data ,cross-sectional study ,Humans ,human - Abstract
Importance: Previous research has documented significant variation in the prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) depending on the type of traumatic experience (TE) and history of TE exposure, but the relatively small sample sizes in these studies resulted in a number of unresolved basic questions. Objective: To examine disaggregated associations of type of TE history with PTSD in a large cross-national community epidemiologic data set. Design, setting, and participants: TheWorld Health OrganizationWorld Mental Health surveys assessed 29 TE types (lifetime exposure, age at first exposure) with DSM-IV PTSD that was associated with 1 randomly selected TE exposure (the random TE) for each respondent. Surveys were administered in 20 countries (n = 34 676 respondents) from 2001 to 2012. Data were analyzed from October 1, 2015, to September 1, 2016. Main outcomes and measures: Prevalence of PTSD assessed with the Composite International Diagnostic Interview. Results: Among the 34 676 respondents (55.4%[SE, 0.6%] men and 44.6%[SE, 0.6%] women; mean [SE] age, 43.7 [0.2] years), lifetime TE exposure was reported by a weighted 70.3%of respondents (mean [SE] number of exposures, 4.5 [0.04] among respondents with any TE). Weighted (by TE frequency) prevalence of PTSD associated with random TEs was 4.0%. Odds ratios (ORs) of PTSD were elevated for TEs involving sexual violence (2.7; 95%CI, 2.0-3.8) and witnessing atrocities (4.2; 95%CI, 1.0-17.8). Prior exposure to some, but not all, same-type TEs was associated with increased vulnerability (eg, physical assault; OR, 3.2; 95%CI, 1.3-7.9) or resilience (eg, participation in sectarian violence; OR, 0.3; 95%CI, 0.1-0.9) to PTSD after the random TE. The finding of earlier studies that more general history of TE exposure was associated with increased vulnerability to PTSD across the full range of random TE types was replicated, but this generalized vulnerability was limited to prior TEs involving violence, including participation in organized violence (OR, 1.3; 95%CI, 1.0-1.6), experience of physical violence (OR, 1.4; 95%CI, 1.2-1.7), rape (OR, 2.5; 95%CI, 1.7-3.8), and other sexual assault (OR, 1.6; 95%CI, 1.1-2.3). Conclusion and relevance: The World Mental Health survey findings advance understanding of the extent to which PTSD risk varies with the type of TE and history of TE exposure. Previous findings about the elevated PTSD risk associated with TEs involving assaultive violence was refined by showing agreement only for repeated occurrences. Some types of prior TE exposures are associated with increased resilience rather than increased vulnerability, connecting the literature on TE history with the literature on resilience after adversity. These results are valuable in providing an empirical rationale for more focused investigations of these specifications in future studies. © 2017 American Medical Association. publishersversion published
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- 2017
6. Perceptions of hospitalization-related trauma and treatment participation among individuals with psychotic disorders
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Paksarian, D., Mojtabai, R., Kotov, R., Cullen, B., Nugent, K.L., and Bromet, E.J.
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Adult ,Employment ,Male ,Time Factors ,Coercion ,Article ,Hospitalization ,Sex Factors ,England ,Psychotic Disorders ,Commitment of Mentally Ill ,Humans ,Patient Compliance ,Female ,Prospective Studies ,Stress, Psychological - Abstract
OBJECTIVE; This study assessed the association of perceptions of traumatic experiences during psychiatric hospitalizations and treatment participation.Participants (N=395) in the Suffolk County Mental Health Project, who had been admitted for the first time for a psychotic disorder ten years earlier, were interviewed. The authors examined associations of perceived trauma and distressing or coercive experiences during hospitalizations in the past ten years with patient characteristics and treatment participation.Sixty-nine percent of participants reported perceived trauma. Perceived trauma was more common among females versus males and homemakers versus full-time workers. It was not associated with treatment seeking or time in treatment. However, reporting forced medication was associated with reduced time in treatment, especially for persons with schizophrenia spectrum disorders.Although perceptions of trauma during psychiatric hospitalization were common, they may be unrelated to treatment participation. However, there was modest evidence of a link between coercive experiences and reduced treatment time.
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- 2014
7. Epidemiology and natural history of schizophrenia - Early intervention and medication discontinuation in the context of course and treatment
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Bromet, E.J. and Fennig, S.
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- 1999
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8. Contribution of Rare Copy Number Variants to Bipolar Disorder Risk Is Limited to Schizoaffective Cases
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Bromet, E.J., Jur��us, A., Malaspina, D., Knowles, J.A., Belliveau, R.A., Jr., Morley, C.P., Perlis, R., Green, E.K., Medeiros, H., Fochtmann, L.J., Backlund, L., Chambert, K., Craddock, N., Lee, P.H., Forty, L., Pato, C.N., Sobell, J.L., Jones, I., Stahl, E.A., McCarroll, S.A., Perkins, D.O., Lehrer, D.S., Charney, A.W., Gordon-Smith, K., Lichtenstein, P., Schalling, M., Chen, C.-Y., Hultman, C.M., Smoller, J.W., Di Florio, A., Land��n, M., Fanous, A.H., Marder, S.R., Sklar, P., Purcell, S.M., Pato, M.T., Rakofsky, J.J., Nicolini, H., Burdick, K.E., Jones, L.A., Moran, J.L., Buckley, P.F., Ruderfer, D.M., Rapaport, M.H., Escamilla, M.A., and Bergen, S.E.
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Background: Genetic risk for bipolar disorder (BD) is conferred through many common alleles, while a role for rare copy number variants (CNVs) is less clear. Subtypes of BD including schizoaffective disorder bipolar type (SAB), bipolar I disorder (BD I), and bipolar II disorder (BD II) differ according to the prominence and timing of psychosis, mania, and depression. The genetic factors contributing to the combination of symptoms among these subtypes are poorly understood. Methods: Rare large CNVs were analyzed in 6353 BD cases (3833 BD I [2676 with psychosis, 850 without psychosis, and 307 with unknown psychosis history], 1436 BD II, 579 SAB, and 505 BD not otherwise specified) and 8656 controls. CNV burden and a polygenic risk score (PRS) for schizophrenia were used to evaluate the relative contributions of rare and common variants to risk of BD, BD subtypes, and psychosis. Results: CNV burden did not differ between BD and controls when treated as a single diagnostic entity. However, burden in SAB was increased relative to controls (p = .001), BD I (p = .0003), and BD II (p = .0007). Burden and schizophrenia PRSs were increased in SAB compared with BD I with psychosis (CNV p = .0007, PRS p = .004), and BD I without psychosis (CNV p = .0004, PRS p = 3.9 �� 10���5). Within BD I, psychosis was associated with increased schizophrenia PRSs (p = .005) but not CNV burden. Conclusions: CNV burden in BD is limited to SAB. Rare and common genetic variants may contribute differently to risk for psychosis and perhaps other classes of psychiatric symptoms.
9. Ultra-Rare Genetic Variation in the Epilepsies: A Whole-Exome Sequencing Study of 17,606 Individuals
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Yen-Chen Anne Feng, Daniel P. Howrigan, Liam E. Abbott, Katherine Tashman, Felecia Cerrato, Tarjinder Singh, Henrike Heyne, Andrea Byrnes, Claire Churchhouse, Nick Watts, Matthew Solomonson, Dennis Lal, Erin L. Heinzen, Ryan S. Dhindsa, Kate E. Stanley, Gianpiero L. Cavalleri, Hakon Hakonarson, Ingo Helbig, Roland Krause, Patrick May, Sarah Weckhuysen, Slavé Petrovski, Sitharthan Kamalakaran, Sanjay M. Sisodiya, Patrick Cossette, Chris Cotsapas, Peter De Jonghe, Tracy Dixon-Salazar, Renzo Guerrini, Patrick Kwan, Anthony G. Marson, Randy Stewart, Chantal Depondt, Dennis J. Dlugos, Ingrid E. Scheffer, Pasquale Striano, Catharine Freyer, Kevin McKenna, Brigid M. Regan, Susannah T. Bellows, Costin Leu, Caitlin A. Bennett, Esther M.C. Johns, Alexandra Macdonald, Hannah Shilling, Rosemary Burgess, Dorien Weckhuysen, Melanie Bahlo, Terence J. O’Brien, Marian Todaro, Hannah Stamberger, Danielle M. Andrade, Tara R. Sadoway, Kelly Mo, Heinz Krestel, Sabina Gallati, Savvas S. Papacostas, Ioanna Kousiappa, George A. Tanteles, Katalin Štěrbová, Markéta Vlčková, Lucie Sedláčková, Petra Laššuthová, Karl Martin Klein, Felix Rosenow, Philipp S. Reif, Susanne Knake, Wolfram S. Kunz, Gábor Zsurka, Christian E. Elger, Jürgen Bauer, Michael Rademacher, Manuela Pendziwiat, Hiltrud Muhle, Annika Rademacher, Andreas van Baalen, Sarah von Spiczak, Ulrich Stephani, Zaid Afawi, Amos D. Korczyn, Moien Kanaan, Christina Canavati, Gerhard Kurlemann, Karen Müller-Schlüter, Gerhard Kluger, Martin Häusler, Ilan Blatt, Johannes R. Lemke, Ilona Krey, Yvonne G. Weber, Stefan Wolking, Felicitas Becker, Christian Hengsbach, Sarah Rau, Ana F. Maisch, Bernhard J. Steinhoff, Andreas Schulze-Bonhage, Susanne Schubert-Bast, Herbert Schreiber, Ingo Borggräfe, Christoph J. Schankin, Thomas Mayer, Rudolf Korinthenberg, Knut Brockmann, Dieter Dennig, Rene Madeleyn, Reetta Kälviäinen, Pia Auvinen, Anni Saarela, Tarja Linnankivi, Anna-Elina Lehesjoki, Mark I. Rees, Seo-Kyung Chung, William O. Pickrell, Robert Powell, Natascha Schneider, Simona Balestrini, Sara Zagaglia, Vera Braatz, Michael R. Johnson, Pauls Auce, Graeme J. Sills, Larry W. Baum, Pak C. Sham, Stacey S. Cherny, Colin H.T. Lui, Nina Barišić, Norman Delanty, Colin P. Doherty, Arif Shukralla, Mark McCormack, Hany El-Naggar, Laura Canafoglia, Silvana Franceschetti, Barbara Castellotti, Tiziana Granata, Federico Zara, Michele Iacomino, Francesca Madia, Maria Stella Vari, Maria Margherita Mancardi, Vincenzo Salpietro, Francesca Bisulli, Paolo Tinuper, Laura Licchetta, Tommaso Pippucci, Carlotta Stipa, Raffaella Minardi, Antonio Gambardella, Angelo Labate, Grazia Annesi, Lorella Manna, Monica Gagliardi, Elena Parrini, Davide Mei, Annalisa Vetro, Claudia Bianchini, Martino Montomoli, Viola Doccini, Carla Marini, Toshimitsu Suzuki, Yushi Inoue, Kazuhiro Yamakawa, Birute Tumiene, Lynette G. Sadleir, Chontelle King, Emily Mountier, S. Hande Caglayan, Mutluay Arslan, Zuhal Yapıcı, Uluc Yis, Pınar Topaloglu, Bulent Kara, Dilsad Turkdogan, Aslı Gundogdu-Eken, Nerses Bebek, Sibel Uğur-İşeri, Betül Baykan, Barış Salman, Garen Haryanyan, Emrah Yücesan, Yeşim Kesim, Çiğdem Özkara, Annapurna Poduri, Beth R. Shiedley, Catherine Shain, Russell J. Buono, Thomas N. Ferraro, Michael R. Sperling, Warren Lo, Michael Privitera, Jacqueline A. French, Steven Schachter, Ruben I. Kuzniecky, Orrin Devinsky, Manu Hegde, Pouya Khankhanian, Katherine L. Helbig, Colin A. Ellis, Gianfranco Spalletta, Fabrizio Piras, Federica Piras, Tommaso Gili, Valentina Ciullo, Andreas Reif, Andrew McQuillin, Nick Bass, Andrew McIntosh, Douglas Blackwood, Mandy Johnstone, Aarno Palotie, Michele T. Pato, Carlos N. Pato, Evelyn J. Bromet, Celia Barreto Carvalho, Eric D. Achtyes, Maria Helena Azevedo, Roman Kotov, Douglas S. Lehrer, Dolores Malaspina, Stephen R. Marder, Helena Medeiros, Christopher P. Morley, Diana O. Perkins, Janet L. Sobell, Peter F. Buckley, Fabio Macciardi, Mark H. Rapaport, James A. Knowles, Ayman H. Fanous, Steven A. McCarroll, Namrata Gupta, Stacey B. Gabriel, Mark J. Daly, Eric S. Lander, Daniel H. Lowenstein, David B. Goldstein, Holger Lerche, Samuel F. Berkovic, Benjamin M. Neale, Wellcome Trust, Department of Health, Institute of Neurology, UCL, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust- BRC Funding, Commission of the European Communities, Medical Research Council (MRC), Feng Y.-C.A., Howrigan D.P., Abbott L.E., Tashman K., Cerrato F., Singh T., Heyne H., Byrnes A., Churchhouse C., Watts N., Solomonson M., Lal D., Heinzen E.L., Dhindsa R.S., Stanley K.E., Cavalleri G.L., Hakonarson H., Helbig I., Krause R., May P., Weckhuysen S., Petrovski S., Kamalakaran S., Sisodiya S.M., Cossette P., Cotsapas C., De Jonghe P., Dixon-Salazar T., Guerrini R., Kwan P., Marson A.G., Stewart R., Depondt C., Dlugos D.J., Scheffer I.E., Striano P., Freyer C., McKenna K., Regan B.M., Bellows S.T., Leu C., Bennett C.A., Johns E.M.C., Macdonald A., Shilling H., Burgess R., Weckhuysen D., Bahlo M., O'Brien T.J., Todaro M., Stamberger H., Andrade D.M., Sadoway T.R., Mo K., Krestel H., Gallati S., Papacostas S.S., Kousiappa I., Tanteles G.A., Sterbova K., Vlckova M., Sedlackova L., Lassuthova P., Klein K.M., Rosenow F., Reif P.S., Knake S., Kunz W.S., Zsurka G., Elger C.E., Bauer J., Rademacher M., Pendziwiat M., Muhle H., Rademacher A., van Baalen A., von Spiczak S., Stephani U., Afawi Z., Korczyn A.D., Kanaan M., Canavati C., Kurlemann G., Muller-Schluter K., Kluger G., Hausler M., Blatt I., Lemke J.R., Krey I., Weber Y.G., Wolking S., Becker F., Hengsbach C., Rau S., Maisch A.F., Steinhoff B.J., Schulze-Bonhage A., Schubert-Bast S., Schreiber H., Borggrafe I., Schankin C.J., Mayer T., Korinthenberg R., Brockmann K., Dennig D., Madeleyn R., Kalviainen R., Auvinen P., Saarela A., Linnankivi T., Lehesjoki A.-E., Rees M.I., Chung S.-K., Pickrell W.O., Powell R., Schneider N., Balestrini S., Zagaglia S., Braatz V., Johnson M.R., Auce P., Sills G.J., Baum L.W., Sham P.C., Cherny S.S., Lui C.H.T., Barisic N., Delanty N., Doherty C.P., Shukralla A., McCormack M., El-Naggar H., Canafoglia L., Franceschetti S., Castellotti B., Granata T., Zara F., Iacomino M., Madia F., Vari M.S., Mancardi M.M., Salpietro V., Bisulli F., Tinuper P., Licchetta L., Pippucci T., Stipa C., Minardi R., Gambardella A., Labate A., Annesi G., Manna L., Gagliardi M., Parrini E., Mei D., Vetro A., Bianchini C., Montomoli M., Doccini V., Marini C., Suzuki T., Inoue Y., Yamakawa K., Tumiene B., Sadleir L.G., King C., Mountier E., Caglayan S.H., Arslan M., Yapici Z., Yis U., Topaloglu P., Kara B., Turkdogan D., Gundogdu-Eken A., Bebek N., Ugur-Iseri S., Baykan B., Salman B., Haryanyan G., Yucesan E., Kesim Y., Ozkara C., Poduri A., Shiedley B.R., Shain C., Buono R.J., Ferraro T.N., Sperling M.R., Lo W., Privitera M., French J.A., Schachter S., Kuzniecky R.I., Devinsky O., Hegde M., Khankhanian P., Helbig K.L., Ellis C.A., Spalletta G., Piras F., Gili T., Ciullo V., Reif A., McQuillin A., Bass N., McIntosh A., Blackwood D., Johnstone M., Palotie A., Pato M.T., Pato C.N., Bromet E.J., Carvalho C.B., Achtyes E.D., Azevedo M.H., Kotov R., Lehrer D.S., Malaspina D., Marder S.R., Medeiros H., Morley C.P., Perkins D.O., Sobell J.L., Buckley P.F., Macciardi F., Rapaport M.H., Knowles J.A., Fanous A.H., McCarroll S.A., Gupta N., Gabriel S.B., Daly M.J., Lander E.S., Lowenstein D.H., Goldstein D.B., Lerche H., Berkovic S.F., Neale B.M., Epi25 Collaborative, YÜCESAN, EMRAH, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, Children's Hospital, HUS Children and Adolescents, Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, University Management, Centre of Excellence in Complex Disease Genetics, Aarno Palotie / Principal Investigator, and Genomics of Neurological and Neuropsychiatric Disorders
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s.berkovic@unimelb.edu.au [Epi25 Collaborative. Electronic address] ,0301 basic medicine ,GAMMA-2-SUBUNIT ,burden analysi ,DNA Mutational Analysis ,PROTEIN ,Neurodegenerative ,VARIANTS ,SUSCEPTIBILITY ,Medical and Health Sciences ,Epilepsy ,0302 clinical medicine ,2.1 Biological and endogenous factors ,EPIDEMIOLOGY ,Missense mutation ,Exome ,Aetiology ,Genetics (clinical) ,Exome sequencing ,11 Medical and Health Sciences ,seizures ,GABRG2 ,Genetics ,Genetics & Heredity ,0303 health sciences ,biology ,COMMON EPILEPSIES ,1184 Genetics, developmental biology, physiology ,sequencing ,Biological Sciences ,Epi25 Collaborative ,Phenotype ,GENOME ,epileptic encephalopathy ,burden analysis ,Neurological ,Biotechnology ,Genetic Markers ,seizure ,EEF1A2 ,Burden analysis ,epilepsy ,exome ,Article ,03 medical and health sciences ,Clinical Research ,Exome Sequencing ,Genetic variation ,medicine ,Humans ,Genetic Predisposition to Disease ,Gene ,EPILEPTIC SEIZURES ,METAANALYSIS ,030304 developmental biology ,Human Genome ,Neurosciences ,Genetic Variation ,06 Biological Sciences ,medicine.disease ,Brain Disorders ,030104 developmental biology ,Genetic marker ,DE-NOVO MUTATIONS ,Case-Control Studies ,biology.protein ,3111 Biomedicine ,Human medicine ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
Sequencing-based studies have identified novel risk genes for rare, severe epilepsies and revealed a role of rare deleterious variation in common epilepsies. To identify the shared and distinct ultra-rare genetic risk factors for rare and common epilepsies, we performed a whole-exome sequencing (WES) analysis of 9,170 epilepsy-affected individuals and 8,364 controls of European ancestry. We focused on three phenotypic groups; the rare but severe developmental and epileptic encephalopathies (DEE), and the commoner phenotypes of genetic generalized epilepsy (GGE) and non-acquired focal epilepsy (NAFE). We observed that compared to controls, individuals with any type of epilepsy carried an excess of ultra-rare, deleterious variants in constrained genes and in genes previously associated with epilepsy, with the strongest enrichment seen in DEE and the least in NAFE. Moreover, we found that inhibitory GABAA receptor genes were enriched for missense variants across all three classes of epilepsy, while no enrichment was seen in excitatory receptor genes. The larger gene groups for the GABAergic pathway or cation channels also showed a significant mutational burden in DEE and GGE. Although no single gene surpassed exome-wide significance among individuals with GGE or NAFE, highly constrained genes and genes encoding ion channels were among the top associations, including CACNA1G, EEF1A2, and GABRG2 for GGE and LGI1, TRIM3, and GABRG2 for NAFE. Our study confirms a convergence in the genetics of common and rare epilepsies associated with ultra-rare coding variation and highlights a ubiquitous role for GABAergic inhibition in epilepsy etiology in the largest epilepsy WES study to date.
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- 2019
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