@article {7687, title = {Large-Scale Cognitive GWAS Meta-Analysis Reveals Tissue-Specific Neural Expression and Potential Nootropic Drug Targets.}, journal = {Cell Rep}, volume = {21}, year = {2017}, month = {2017 Nov 28}, pages = {2597-2613}, abstract = {

Here, we present a large (n~= 107,207) genome-wide association study (GWAS) of general cognitive ability ("g"), further enhanced by combining results with a large-scale GWAS of educational attainment. We identified 70 independent genomic loci associated with general cognitive ability. Results showed significant enrichment for genes causing Mendelian disorders with an intellectual disability phenotype. Competitive pathway analysis implicated the biological processes of neurogenesis and synaptic regulation, as well as the gene targets of two pharmacologic agents: cinnarizine, a T-type calcium channel blocker, and LY97241, a potassium channel inhibitor. Transcriptome-wide and epigenome-wide analysis revealed that the implicated loci were enriched for genes expressed across all brain regions (most strongly in the cerebellum). Enrichment was exclusive to genes expressed in neurons but not oligodendrocytes or astrocytes. Finally, we report genetic correlations between cognitive ability and disparate phenotypes including psychiatric disorders, several autoimmune disorders, longevity, and maternal age at first birth.

}, issn = {2211-1247}, doi = {10.1016/j.celrep.2017.11.028}, author = {Lam, Max and Trampush, Joey W and Yu, Jin and Knowles, Emma and Davies, Gail and Liewald, David C and Starr, John M and Djurovic, Srdjan and Melle, Ingrid and Sundet, Kjetil and Christoforou, Andrea and Reinvang, Ivar and DeRosse, Pamela and Lundervold, Astri J and Steen, Vidar M and Espeseth, Thomas and R{\"a}ikk{\"o}nen, Katri and Widen, Elisabeth and Palotie, Aarno and Eriksson, Johan G and Giegling, Ina and Konte, Bettina and Roussos, Panos and Giakoumaki, Stella and Burdick, Katherine E and Payton, Antony and Ollier, William and Chiba-Falek, Ornit and Attix, Deborah K and Need, Anna C and Cirulli, Elizabeth T and Voineskos, Aristotle N and Stefanis, Nikos C and Avramopoulos, Dimitrios and Hatzimanolis, Alex and Arking, Dan E and Smyrnis, Nikolaos and Bilder, Robert M and Freimer, Nelson A and Cannon, Tyrone D and London, Edythe and Poldrack, Russell A and Sabb, Fred W and Congdon, Eliza and Conley, Emily Drabant and Scult, Matthew A and Dickinson, Dwight and Straub, Richard E and Donohoe, Gary and Morris, Derek and Corvin, Aiden and Gill, Michael and Hariri, Ahmad R and Weinberger, Daniel R and Pendleton, Neil and Bitsios, Panos and Rujescu, Dan and Lahti, Jari and Le Hellard, Stephanie and Keller, Matthew C and Andreassen, Ole A and Deary, Ian J and Glahn, David C and Malhotra, Anil K and Lencz, Todd} } @article {7788, title = {Study of 300,486 individuals identifies 148 independent genetic loci influencing general cognitive function.}, journal = {Nat Commun}, volume = {9}, year = {2018}, month = {2018 May 29}, pages = {2098}, abstract = {

General cognitive function is a prominent and relatively stable human trait that is associated with many important life outcomes. We combine cognitive and genetic data from the CHARGE and COGENT consortia, and UK Biobank (total N = 300,486; age 16-102) and find 148 genome-wide significant independent loci (P < 5 {\texttimes} 10) associated with general cognitive function. Within the novel genetic loci are variants associated with neurodegenerative and neurodevelopmental disorders, physical and psychiatric illnesses, and brain structure. Gene-based analyses find 709 genes associated with general cognitive function. Expression levels across the cortex are associated with general cognitive function. Using polygenic scores, up to 4.3\% of variance in general cognitive function is predicted in independent samples. We detect significant genetic overlap between general cognitive function, reaction time, and many health variables including eyesight, hypertension, and longevity. In conclusion we identify novel genetic loci and pathways contributing to the heritability of general cognitive function.

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V and Terzikhan, Natalie and Thalamuthu, Anbupalam and Trompet, Stella and van der Lee, Sven J and Ware, Erin B and Windham, B Gwen and Wright, Margaret J and Yang, Jingyun and Yu, Jin and Ames, David and Amin, Najaf and Amouyel, Philippe and Andreassen, Ole A and Armstrong, Nicola J and Assareh, Amelia A and Attia, John R and Attix, Deborah and Avramopoulos, Dimitrios and Bennett, David A and B{\"o}hmer, Anne C and Boyle, Patricia A and Brodaty, Henry and Campbell, Harry and Cannon, Tyrone D and Cirulli, Elizabeth T and Congdon, Eliza and Conley, Emily Drabant and Corley, Janie and Cox, Simon R and Dale, Anders M and Dehghan, Abbas and Dick, Danielle and Dickinson, Dwight and Eriksson, Johan G and Evangelou, Evangelos and Faul, Jessica D and Ford, Ian and Freimer, Nelson A and Gao, He and Giegling, Ina and Gillespie, Nathan A and Gordon, Scott D and Gottesman, Rebecca F and Griswold, Michael E and Gudnason, Vilmundur and Harris, Tamara B and Hartmann, Annette M and Hatzimanolis, Alex and Heiss, Gerardo and Holliday, Elizabeth G and Joshi, Peter K and K{\"a}h{\"o}nen, Mika and Kardia, Sharon L R and Karlsson, Ida and Kleineidam, Luca and Knopman, David S and Kochan, Nicole A and Konte, Bettina and Kwok, John B and Le Hellard, Stephanie and Lee, Teresa and Lehtim{\"a}ki, Terho and Li, Shu-Chen and Liu, Tian and Koini, Marisa and London, Edythe and Longstreth, Will T and Lopez, Oscar L and Loukola, Anu and Luck, Tobias and Lundervold, Astri J and Lundquist, Anders and Lyytik{\"a}inen, Leo-Pekka and Martin, Nicholas G and Montgomery, Grant W and Murray, Alison D and Need, Anna C and Noordam, Raymond and Nyberg, Lars and Ollier, William and Papenberg, Goran and Pattie, Alison and Polasek, Ozren and Poldrack, Russell A and Psaty, Bruce M and Reppermund, Simone and Riedel-Heller, Steffi G and Rose, Richard J and Rotter, Jerome I and Roussos, Panos and Rovio, Suvi P and Saba, Yasaman and Sabb, Fred W and Sachdev, Perminder S and Satizabal, Claudia L and Schmid, Matthias and Scott, Rodney J and Scult, Matthew A and Simino, Jeannette and Slagboom, P Eline and Smyrnis, Nikolaos and Soumar{\'e}, A{\"\i}cha and Stefanis, Nikos C and Stott, David J and Straub, Richard E and Sundet, Kjetil and Taylor, Adele M and Taylor, Kent D and Tzoulaki, Ioanna and Tzourio, Christophe and Uitterlinden, Andre and Vitart, Veronique and Voineskos, Aristotle N and Kaprio, Jaakko and Wagner, Michael and Wagner, Holger and Weinhold, Leonie and Wen, K Hoyan and Widen, Elisabeth and Yang, Qiong and Zhao, Wei and Adams, Hieab H H and Arking, Dan E and Bilder, Robert M and Bitsios, Panos and Boerwinkle, Eric and Chiba-Falek, Ornit and Corvin, Aiden and De Jager, Philip L and Debette, Stephanie and Donohoe, Gary and Elliott, Paul and Fitzpatrick, Annette L and Gill, Michael and Glahn, David C and H{\"a}gg, Sara and Hansell, Narelle K and Hariri, Ahmad R and Ikram, M Kamran and Jukema, J Wouter and Vuoksimaa, Eero and Keller, Matthew C and Kremen, William S and Launer, Lenore and Lindenberger, Ulman and Palotie, Aarno and Pedersen, Nancy L and Pendleton, Neil and Porteous, David J and R{\"a}ikk{\"o}nen, Katri and Raitakari, Olli T and Ramirez, Alfredo and Reinvang, Ivar and Rudan, Igor and Schmidt, Reinhold and Schmidt, Helena and Schofield, Peter W and Schofield, Peter R and Starr, John M and Steen, Vidar M and Trollor, Julian N and Turner, Steven T and van Duijn, Cornelia M and Villringer, Arno and Weinberger, Daniel R and Weir, David R and Wilson, James F and Malhotra, Anil and McIntosh, Andrew M and Gale, Catharine R and Seshadri, Sudha and Mosley, Thomas H and Bressler, Jan and Lencz, Todd and Deary, Ian J} } @article {8506, title = {The genetic architecture of the human cerebral cortex}, journal = {Science}, volume = {367}, year = {2020}, month = {Aug-03-2021}, pages = {eaay6690}, issn = {0036-8075}, doi = {10.1126/science.aay6690}, url = {https://www.sciencemag.org/lookup/doi/10.1126/science.aay6690https://syndication.highwire.org/content/doi/10.1126/science.aay6690https://syndication.highwire.org/content/doi/10.1126/science.aay6690}, author = {Grasby, Katrina L. and Jahanshad, Neda and Painter, Jodie N. and Colodro-Conde, Luc{\'\i}a and Bralten, Janita and Hibar, Derrek P. and Lind, Penelope A. and Pizzagalli, Fabrizio and Ching, Christopher R. K. and McMahon, Mary Agnes B. and Shatokhina, Natalia and Zsembik, Leo C. P. and Thomopoulos, Sophia I. and Zhu, Alyssa H. and Strike, Lachlan T. and Agartz, Ingrid and Alhusaini, Saud and Almeida, Marcio A. A. and Aln{\ae}s, Dag and Amlien, Inge K. and Andersson, Micael and Ard, Tyler and Armstrong, Nicola J. and Ashley-Koch, Allison and Atkins, Joshua R. and Bernard, Manon and Brouwer, Rachel M. and Buimer, Elizabeth E. L. and B{\"u}low, Robin and B{\"u}rger, Christian and Cannon, Dara M. and Chakravarty, Mallar and Chen, Qiang and Cheung, Joshua W. and Couvy-Duchesne, Baptiste and Dale, Anders M. and Dalvie, Shareefa and de Araujo, T{\^a}nia K. and de Zubicaray, Greig I. and de Zwarte, Sonja M. C. and den Braber, Anouk and Doan, Nhat Trung and Dohm, Katharina and Ehrlich, Stefan and Engelbrecht, Hannah-Ruth and Erk, Susanne and Fan, Chun Chieh and Fedko, Iryna O. and Foley, Sonya F. and Ford, Judith M. and Fukunaga, Masaki and Garrett, Melanie E. and Ge, Tian and Giddaluru, Sudheer and Goldman, Aaron L. and Green, Melissa J. and Groenewold, Nynke A. and Grotegerd, Dominik and Gurholt, Tiril P. and Gutman, Boris A. and Hansell, Narelle K. and Harris, Mathew A. and Harrison, Marc B. and Haswell, Courtney C. and Hauser, Michael and Herms, Stefan and Heslenfeld, Dirk J. and Ho, New Fei and Hoehn, David and Hoffmann, Per and Holleran, Laurena and Hoogman, Martine and Hottenga, Jouke-Jan and Ikeda, Masashi and Janowitz, Deborah and Jansen, Iris E. and Jia, Tianye and Jockwitz, Christiane and Kanai, Ryota and Karama, Sherif and Kasperaviciute, Dalia and Kaufmann, Tobias and Kelly, Sinead and Kikuchi, Masataka and Klein, Marieke and Knapp, Michael and Knodt, Annchen R. and Kr{\"a}mer, Bernd and Lam, Max and Lancaster, Thomas M. and Lee, Phil H. and Lett, Tristram A. and Lewis, Lindsay B. and Lopes-Cendes, Iscia and Luciano, Michelle and Macciardi, Fabio and Marquand, Andre F. and Mathias, Samuel R. and Melzer, Tracy R. and Milaneschi, Yuri and Mirza-Schreiber, Nazanin and Moreira, Jose C. 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Bruce and Preda, Adrian and Quinlan, Erin B. and Rasser, Paul E. and Ratnakar, Varun and Reppermund, Simone and Steen, Vidar M. and Tooney, Paul A. and Torres, F{\'a}bio R. and Veltman, Dick J. and Voyvodic, James T. and Whelan, Robert and White, Tonya and Yamamori, Hidenaga and Adams, Hieab H. H. and Bis, Joshua C. and Debette, Stephanie and DeCarli, Charles and Fornage, Myriam and Gudnason, Vilmundur and Hofer, Edith and Ikram, M. Arfan and Launer, Lenore and Longstreth, W. T. and Lopez, Oscar L. and Mazoyer, Bernard and Mosley, Thomas H. and Roshchupkin, Gennady V. and Satizabal, Claudia L. and Schmidt, Reinhold and Seshadri, Sudha and Yang, Qiong and Alvim, Marina K. 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C. and Deary, Ian J. and Delanty, Norman and Depondt, Chantal and Desrivi{\`e}res, Sylvane and Donohoe, Gary and Espeseth, Thomas and Fern{\'a}ndez, Guill{\'e}n and Fisher, Simon E. and Flor, Herta and Forstner, Andreas J. and Francks, Clyde and Franke, Barbara and Glahn, David C. and Gollub, Randy L. and Grabe, Hans J. and Gruber, Oliver and H{\r a}berg, Asta K. and Hariri, Ahmad R. and Hartman, Catharina A. and Hashimoto, Ryota and Heinz, Andreas and Henskens, Frans A. and Hillegers, Manon H. J. and Hoekstra, Pieter J. and Holmes, Avram J. and Hong, L. Elliot and Hopkins, William D. and Hulshoff Pol, Hilleke E. and Jernigan, Terry L. and J{\"o}nsson, Erik G. and Kahn, Ren{\'e} S. and Kennedy, Martin A. and Kircher, Tilo T. J. and Kochunov, Peter and Kwok, John B. J. and Le Hellard, Stephanie and Loughland, Carmel M. and Martin, Nicholas G. and Martinot, Jean-Luc and McDonald, Colm and McMahon, Katie L. and Meyer-Lindenberg, Andreas and Michie, Patricia T. and Morey, Rajendra A. and Mowry, Bryan and Nyberg, Lars and Oosterlaan, Jaap and Ophoff, Roel A. and Pantelis, Christos and Paus, Tom{\'a}{\v s} and Pausova, Zdenka and Penninx, Brenda W. J. H. and Polderman, Tinca J. C. and Posthuma, Danielle and Rietschel, Marcella and Roffman, Joshua L. and Rowland, Laura M. and Sachdev, Perminder S. and S{\"a}mann, Philipp G. and Schall, Ulrich and Schumann, Gunter and Scott, Rodney J. and Sim, Kang and Sisodiya, Sanjay M. and Smoller, Jordan W. and Sommer, Iris E. and St Pourcain, Beate and Stein, Dan J. and Toga, Arthur W. and Trollor, Julian N. and Van der Wee, Nic J. A. and van {\textquoteright}t Ent, Dennis and V{\"o}lzke, Henry and Walter, Henrik and Weber, Bernd and Weinberger, Daniel R. and Wright, Margaret J. and Zhou, Juan and Stein, Jason L. and Thompson, Paul M. and Medland, Sarah E.} } @article {9169, title = {Genome-wide meta-analyses reveal novel loci for verbal short-term memory and learning.}, journal = {Mol Psychiatry}, year = {2022}, month = {2022 Aug 16}, abstract = {

Understanding the genomic basis of memory processes may help in combating neurodegenerative disorders. Hence, we examined the associations of common genetic variants with verbal short-term memory and verbal learning in adults without dementia or stroke (N = 53,637). We identified novel loci in the intronic region of CDH18, and at 13q21 and 3p21.1, as well as an expected signal in the APOE/APOC1/TOMM40 region. These results replicated in an independent sample. Functional and bioinformatic analyses supported many of these loci and further implicated POC1. We showed that polygenic score for verbal learning associated with brain activation in right parieto-occipital region during working memory task. Finally, we showed genetic correlations of these memory traits with several neurocognitive and health outcomes. Our findings suggest a role of several genomic loci in verbal memory processes.

}, issn = {1476-5578}, doi = {10.1038/s41380-022-01710-8}, author = {Lahti, Jari and Tuominen, Samuli and Yang, Qiong and Pergola, Giulio and Ahmad, Shahzad and Amin, Najaf and Armstrong, Nicola J and Beiser, Alexa and Bey, Katharina and Bis, Joshua C and Boerwinkle, Eric and Bressler, Jan and Campbell, Archie and Campbell, Harry and Chen, Qiang and Corley, Janie and Cox, Simon R and Davies, Gail and De Jager, Philip L and Derks, Eske M and Faul, Jessica D and Fitzpatrick, Annette L and Fohner, Alison E and Ford, Ian and Fornage, Myriam and Gerring, Zachary and Grabe, Hans J and Grodstein, Francine and Gudnason, Vilmundur and Simonsick, Eleanor and Holliday, Elizabeth G and Joshi, Peter K and Kajantie, Eero and Kaprio, Jaakko and Karell, Pauliina and Kleineidam, Luca and Knol, Maria J and Kochan, Nicole A and Kwok, John B and Leber, Markus and Lam, Max and Lee, Teresa and Li, Shuo and Loukola, Anu and Luck, Tobias and Marioni, Riccardo E and Mather, Karen A and Medland, Sarah and Mirza, Saira S and Nalls, Mike A and Nho, Kwangsik and O{\textquoteright}Donnell, Adrienne and Oldmeadow, Christopher and Painter, Jodie and Pattie, Alison and Reppermund, Simone and Risacher, Shannon L and Rose, Richard J and Sadashivaiah, Vijay and Scholz, Markus and Satizabal, Claudia L and Schofield, Peter W and Schraut, Katharina E and Scott, Rodney J and Simino, Jeannette and Smith, Albert V and Smith, Jennifer A and Stott, David J and Surakka, Ida and Teumer, Alexander and Thalamuthu, Anbupalam and Trompet, Stella and Turner, Stephen T and van der Lee, Sven J and Villringer, Arno and V{\"o}lker, Uwe and Wilson, Robert S and Wittfeld, Katharina and Vuoksimaa, Eero and Xia, Rui and Yaffe, Kristine and Yu, Lei and Zare, Habil and Zhao, Wei and Ames, David and Attia, John and Bennett, David A and Brodaty, Henry and Chasman, Daniel I and Goldman, Aaron L and Hayward, Caroline and Ikram, M Arfan and Jukema, J Wouter and Kardia, Sharon L R and Lencz, Todd and Loeffler, Markus and Mattay, Venkata S and Palotie, Aarno and Psaty, Bruce M and Ramirez, Alfredo and Ridker, Paul M and Riedel-Heller, Steffi G and Sachdev, Perminder S and Saykin, Andrew J and Scherer, Martin and Schofield, Peter R and Sidney, Stephen and Starr, John M and Trollor, Julian and Ulrich, William and Wagner, Michael and Weir, David R and Wilson, James F and Wright, Margaret J and Weinberger, Daniel R and Debette, Stephanie and Eriksson, Johan G and Mosley, Thomas H and Launer, Lenore J and van Duijn, Cornelia M and Deary, Ian J and Seshadri, Sudha and R{\"a}ikk{\"o}nen, Katri} }