%0 Journal Article %J Nat Genet %D 2010 %T Genome-wide association study of PR interval. %A Pfeufer, Arne %A van Noord, Charlotte %A Marciante, Kristin D %A Arking, Dan E %A Larson, Martin G %A Smith, Albert Vernon %A Tarasov, Kirill V %A Müller, Martina %A Sotoodehnia, Nona %A Sinner, Moritz F %A Verwoert, Germaine C %A Li, Man %A Kao, W H Linda %A Köttgen, Anna %A Coresh, Josef %A Bis, Joshua C %A Psaty, Bruce M %A Rice, Kenneth %A Rotter, Jerome I %A Rivadeneira, Fernando %A Hofman, Albert %A Kors, Jan A %A Stricker, Bruno H C %A Uitterlinden, André G %A van Duijn, Cornelia M %A Beckmann, Britt M %A Sauter, Wiebke %A Gieger, Christian %A Lubitz, Steven A %A Newton-Cheh, Christopher %A Wang, Thomas J %A Magnani, Jared W %A Schnabel, Renate B %A Chung, Mina K %A Barnard, John %A Smith, Jonathan D %A Van Wagoner, David R %A Vasan, Ramachandran S %A Aspelund, Thor %A Eiriksdottir, Gudny %A Harris, Tamara B %A Launer, Lenore J %A Najjar, Samer S %A Lakatta, Edward %A Schlessinger, David %A Uda, Manuela %A Abecasis, Goncalo R %A Müller-Myhsok, Bertram %A Ehret, Georg B %A Boerwinkle, Eric %A Chakravarti, Aravinda %A Soliman, Elsayed Z %A Lunetta, Kathryn L %A Perz, Siegfried %A Wichmann, H-Erich %A Meitinger, Thomas %A Levy, Daniel %A Gudnason, Vilmundur %A Ellinor, Patrick T %A Sanna, Serena %A Kääb, Stefan %A Witteman, Jacqueline C M %A Alonso, Alvaro %A Benjamin, Emelia J %A Heckbert, Susan R %K Aged %K Atrial Fibrillation %K Cohort Studies %K Electrocardiography %K Female %K Genetic Loci %K Genetic Predisposition to Disease %K Genome-Wide Association Study %K Heart Conduction System %K Humans %K Male %K Meta-Analysis as Topic %X

The electrocardiographic PR interval (or PQ interval) reflects atrial and atrioventricular nodal conduction, disturbances of which increase risk of atrial fibrillation. We report a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies for PR interval from seven population-based European studies in the CHARGE Consortium: AGES, ARIC, CHS, FHS, KORA, Rotterdam Study, and SardiNIA (N = 28,517). We identified nine loci associated with PR interval at P < 5 x 10(-8). At the 3p22.2 locus, we observed two independent associations in voltage-gated sodium channel genes, SCN10A and SCN5A. Six of the loci were near cardiac developmental genes, including CAV1-CAV2, NKX2-5 (CSX1), SOX5, WNT11, MEIS1, and TBX5-TBX3, providing pathophysiologically interesting candidate genes. Five of the loci, SCN5A, SCN10A, NKX2-5, CAV1-CAV2, and SOX5, were also associated with atrial fibrillation (N = 5,741 cases, P < 0.0056). This suggests a role for common variation in ion channel and developmental genes in atrial and atrioventricular conduction as well as in susceptibility to atrial fibrillation.

%B Nat Genet %V 42 %P 153-9 %8 2010 Feb %G eng %N 2 %1 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20062060?dopt=Abstract %R 10.1038/ng.517 %0 Journal Article %J PLoS One %D 2014 %T The challenges of genome-wide interaction studies: lessons to learn from the analysis of HDL blood levels. %A van Leeuwen, Elisabeth M %A Smouter, Françoise A S %A Kam-Thong, Tony %A Karbalai, Nazanin %A Smith, Albert V %A Harris, Tamara B %A Launer, Lenore J %A Sitlani, Colleen M %A Li, Guo %A Brody, Jennifer A %A Bis, Joshua C %A White, Charles C %A Jaiswal, Alok %A Oostra, Ben A %A Hofman, Albert %A Rivadeneira, Fernando %A Uitterlinden, André G %A Boerwinkle, Eric %A Ballantyne, Christie M %A Gudnason, Vilmundur %A Psaty, Bruce M %A Cupples, L Adrienne %A Jarvelin, Marjo-Riitta %A Ripatti, Samuli %A Isaacs, Aaron %A Müller-Myhsok, Bertram %A Karssen, Lennart C %A van Duijn, Cornelia M %K Cholesterol, HDL %K Female %K Genome-Wide Association Study %K Humans %K Male %K Middle Aged %K Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide %X

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have revealed 74 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL) blood levels. This study is, to our knowledge, the first genome-wide interaction study (GWIS) to identify SNP×SNP interactions associated with HDL levels. We performed a GWIS in the Rotterdam Study (RS) cohort I (RS-I) using the GLIDE tool which leverages the massively parallel computing power of Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) to perform linear regression on all genome-wide pairs of SNPs. By performing a meta-analysis together with Rotterdam Study cohorts II and III (RS-II and RS-III), we were able to filter 181 interaction terms with a p-value<1 · 10-8 that replicated in the two independent cohorts. We were not able to replicate any of these interaction term in the AGES, ARIC, CHS, ERF, FHS and NFBC-66 cohorts (Ntotal = 30,011) when adjusting for multiple testing. Our GWIS resulted in the consistent finding of a possible interaction between rs774801 in ARMC8 (ENSG00000114098) and rs12442098 in SPATA8 (ENSG00000185594) being associated with HDL levels. However, p-values do not reach the preset Bonferroni correction of the p-values. Our study suggest that even for highly genetically determined traits such as HDL the sample sizes needed to detect SNP×SNP interactions are large and the 2-step filtering approaches do not yield a solution. Here we present our analysis plan and our reservations concerning GWIS.

%B PLoS One %V 9 %P e109290 %8 2014 %G eng %N 10 %1 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25329471?dopt=Abstract %R 10.1371/journal.pone.0109290 %0 Journal Article %J Biol Psychiatry %D 2015 %T Genome-wide studies of verbal declarative memory in nondemented older people: the Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology consortium. %A Debette, Stephanie %A Ibrahim Verbaas, Carla A %A Bressler, Jan %A Schuur, Maaike %A Smith, Albert %A Bis, Joshua C %A Davies, Gail %A Wolf, Christiane %A Gudnason, Vilmundur %A Chibnik, Lori B %A Yang, Qiong %A DeStefano, Anita L %A de Quervain, Dominique J F %A Srikanth, Velandai %A Lahti, Jari %A Grabe, Hans J %A Smith, Jennifer A %A Priebe, Lutz %A Yu, Lei %A Karbalai, Nazanin %A Hayward, Caroline %A Wilson, James F %A Campbell, Harry %A Petrovic, Katja %A Fornage, Myriam %A Chauhan, Ganesh %A Yeo, Robin %A Boxall, Ruth %A Becker, James %A Stegle, Oliver %A Mather, Karen A %A Chouraki, Vincent %A Sun, Qi %A Rose, Lynda M %A Resnick, Susan %A Oldmeadow, Christopher %A Kirin, Mirna %A Wright, Alan F %A Jonsdottir, Maria K %A Au, Rhoda %A Becker, Albert %A Amin, Najaf %A Nalls, Mike A %A Turner, Stephen T %A Kardia, Sharon L R %A Oostra, Ben %A Windham, Gwen %A Coker, Laura H %A Zhao, Wei %A Knopman, David S %A Heiss, Gerardo %A Griswold, Michael E %A Gottesman, Rebecca F %A Vitart, Veronique %A Hastie, Nicholas D %A Zgaga, Lina %A Rudan, Igor %A Polasek, Ozren %A Holliday, Elizabeth G %A Schofield, Peter %A Choi, Seung Hoan %A Tanaka, Toshiko %A An, Yang %A Perry, Rodney T %A Kennedy, Richard E %A Sale, Michèle M %A Wang, Jing %A Wadley, Virginia G %A Liewald, David C %A Ridker, Paul M %A Gow, Alan J %A Pattie, Alison %A Starr, John M %A Porteous, David %A Liu, Xuan %A Thomson, Russell %A Armstrong, Nicola J %A Eiriksdottir, Gudny %A Assareh, Arezoo A %A Kochan, Nicole A %A Widen, Elisabeth %A Palotie, Aarno %A Hsieh, Yi-Chen %A Eriksson, Johan G %A Vogler, Christian %A van Swieten, John C %A Shulman, Joshua M %A Beiser, Alexa %A Rotter, Jerome %A Schmidt, Carsten O %A Hoffmann, Wolfgang %A Nöthen, Markus M %A Ferrucci, Luigi %A Attia, John %A Uitterlinden, André G %A Amouyel, Philippe %A Dartigues, Jean-François %A Amieva, Hélène %A Räikkönen, Katri %A Garcia, Melissa %A Wolf, Philip A %A Hofman, Albert %A Longstreth, W T %A Psaty, Bruce M %A Boerwinkle, Eric %A DeJager, Philip L %A Sachdev, Perminder S %A Schmidt, Reinhold %A Breteler, Monique M B %A Teumer, Alexander %A Lopez, Oscar L %A Cichon, Sven %A Chasman, Daniel I %A Grodstein, Francine %A Müller-Myhsok, Bertram %A Tzourio, Christophe %A Papassotiropoulos, Andreas %A Bennett, David A %A Ikram, M Arfan %A Deary, Ian J %A van Duijn, Cornelia M %A Launer, Lenore %A Fitzpatrick, Annette L %A Seshadri, Sudha %A Mosley, Thomas H %K Aged %K Aged, 80 and over %K Aging %K Apolipoproteins E %K Claudin-5 %K Cohort Studies %K Female %K Genome-Wide Association Study %K Genotype %K Humans %K Male %K Memory Disorders %K Middle Aged %K Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide %K Proteins %K Proteoglycans %K Regression Analysis %K Sulfotransferases %K Verbal Learning %X

BACKGROUND: Memory performance in older persons can reflect genetic influences on cognitive function and dementing processes. We aimed to identify genetic contributions to verbal declarative memory in a community setting.

METHODS: We conducted genome-wide association studies for paragraph or word list delayed recall in 19 cohorts from the Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology consortium, comprising 29,076 dementia- and stroke-free individuals of European descent, aged ≥45 years. Replication of suggestive associations (p < 5 × 10(-6)) was sought in 10,617 participants of European descent, 3811 African-Americans, and 1561 young adults.

RESULTS: rs4420638, near APOE, was associated with poorer delayed recall performance in discovery (p = 5.57 × 10(-10)) and replication cohorts (p = 5.65 × 10(-8)). This association was stronger for paragraph than word list delayed recall and in the oldest persons. Two associations with specific tests, in subsets of the total sample, reached genome-wide significance in combined analyses of discovery and replication (rs11074779 [HS3ST4], p = 3.11 × 10(-8), and rs6813517 [SPOCK3], p = 2.58 × 10(-8)) near genes involved in immune response. A genetic score combining 58 independent suggestive memory risk variants was associated with increasing Alzheimer disease pathology in 725 autopsy samples. Association of memory risk loci with gene expression in 138 human hippocampus samples showed cis-associations with WDR48 and CLDN5, both related to ubiquitin metabolism.

CONCLUSIONS: This largest study to date exploring the genetics of memory function in ~40,000 older individuals revealed genome-wide associations and suggested an involvement of immune and ubiquitin pathways.

%B Biol Psychiatry %V 77 %P 749-63 %8 2015 Apr 15 %G eng %N 8 %1 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25648963?dopt=Abstract %R 10.1016/j.biopsych.2014.08.027 %0 Journal Article %J Eur J Hum Genet %D 2016 %T Genetic variants in RBFOX3 are associated with sleep latency. %A Amin, Najaf %A Allebrandt, Karla V %A van der Spek, Ashley %A Müller-Myhsok, Bertram %A Hek, Karin %A Teder-Laving, Maris %A Hayward, Caroline %A Esko, Tõnu %A van Mill, Josine G %A Mbarek, Hamdi %A Watson, Nathaniel F %A Melville, Scott A %A Del Greco, Fabiola M %A Byrne, Enda M %A Oole, Edwin %A Kolcic, Ivana %A Chen, Ting-Hsu %A Evans, Daniel S %A Coresh, Josef %A Vogelzangs, Nicole %A Karjalainen, Juha %A Willemsen, Gonneke %A Gharib, Sina A %A Zgaga, Lina %A Mihailov, Evelin %A Stone, Katie L %A Campbell, Harry %A Brouwer, Rutger Ww %A Demirkan, Ayse %A Isaacs, Aaron %A Dogas, Zoran %A Marciante, Kristin D %A Campbell, Susan %A Borovecki, Fran %A Luik, Annemarie I %A Li, Man %A Hottenga, Jouke Jan %A Huffman, Jennifer E %A van den Hout, Mirjam Cgn %A Cummings, Steven R %A Aulchenko, Yurii S %A Gehrman, Philip R %A Uitterlinden, André G %A Wichmann, Heinz-Erich %A Müller-Nurasyid, Martina %A Fehrmann, Rudolf Sn %A Montgomery, Grant W %A Hofman, Albert %A Kao, Wen Hong Linda %A Oostra, Ben A %A Wright, Alan F %A Vink, Jacqueline M %A Wilson, James F %A Pramstaller, Peter P %A Hicks, Andrew A %A Polasek, Ozren %A Punjabi, Naresh M %A Redline, Susan %A Psaty, Bruce M %A Heath, Andrew C %A Merrow, Martha %A Tranah, Gregory J %A Gottlieb, Daniel J %A Boomsma, Dorret I %A Martin, Nicholas G %A Rudan, Igor %A Tiemeier, Henning %A van IJcken, Wilfred Fj %A Penninx, Brenda W %A Metspalu, Andres %A Meitinger, Thomas %A Franke, Lude %A Roenneberg, Till %A van Duijn, Cornelia M %X

Time to fall asleep (sleep latency) is a major determinant of sleep quality. Chronic, long sleep latency is a major characteristic of sleep-onset insomnia and/or delayed sleep phase syndrome. In this study we aimed to discover common polymorphisms that contribute to the genetics of sleep latency. We performed a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) including 2 572 737 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) established in seven European cohorts including 4242 individuals. We found a cluster of three highly correlated variants (rs9900428, rs9907432 and rs7211029) in the RNA-binding protein fox-1 homolog 3 gene (RBFOX3) associated with sleep latency (P-values=5.77 × 10(-08), 6.59 × 10(-)(08) and 9.17 × 10(-)(08)). These SNPs were replicated in up to 12 independent populations including 30 377 individuals (P-values=1.5 × 10(-)(02), 7.0 × 10(-)(03) and 2.5 × 10(-)(03); combined meta-analysis P-values=5.5 × 10(-07), 5.4 × 10(-07) and 1.0 × 10(-07)). A functional prediction of RBFOX3 based on co-expression with other genes shows that this gene is predominantly expressed in brain (P-value=1.4 × 10(-316)) and the central nervous system (P-value=7.5 × 10(-)(321)). The predicted function of RBFOX3 based on co-expression analysis with other genes shows that this gene is significantly involved in the release cycle of neurotransmitters including gamma-aminobutyric acid and various monoamines (P-values<2.9 × 10(-11)) that are crucial in triggering the onset of sleep. To conclude, in this first large-scale GWAS of sleep latency we report a novel association of variants in RBFOX3 gene. Further, a functional prediction of RBFOX3 supports the involvement of RBFOX3 with sleep latency.

%B Eur J Hum Genet %V 24 %P 1488-95 %8 2016 Oct %G eng %N 10 %1 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27142678?dopt=Abstract %R 10.1038/ejhg.2016.31 %0 Journal Article %J Nat Genet %D 2019 %T Genetic architecture of subcortical brain structures in 38,851 individuals. %A Satizabal, Claudia L %A Adams, Hieab H H %A Hibar, Derrek P %A White, Charles C %A Knol, Maria J %A Stein, Jason L %A Scholz, Markus %A Sargurupremraj, Muralidharan %A Jahanshad, Neda %A Roshchupkin, Gennady V %A Smith, Albert V %A Bis, Joshua C %A Jian, Xueqiu %A Luciano, Michelle %A Hofer, Edith %A Teumer, Alexander %A van der Lee, Sven J %A Yang, Jingyun %A Yanek, Lisa R %A Lee, Tom V %A Li, Shuo %A Hu, Yanhui %A Koh, Jia Yu %A Eicher, John D %A Desrivières, Sylvane %A Arias-Vasquez, Alejandro %A Chauhan, Ganesh %A Athanasiu, Lavinia %A Rentería, Miguel E %A Kim, Sungeun %A Hoehn, David %A Armstrong, Nicola J %A Chen, Qiang %A Holmes, Avram J %A den Braber, Anouk %A Kloszewska, Iwona %A Andersson, Micael %A Espeseth, Thomas %A Grimm, Oliver %A Abramovic, Lucija %A Alhusaini, Saud %A Milaneschi, Yuri %A Papmeyer, Martina %A Axelsson, Tomas %A Ehrlich, Stefan %A Roiz-Santiañez, Roberto %A Kraemer, Bernd %A Håberg, Asta K %A Jones, Hannah J %A Pike, G Bruce %A Stein, Dan J %A Stevens, Allison %A Bralten, Janita %A Vernooij, Meike W %A Harris, Tamara B %A Filippi, Irina %A Witte, A Veronica %A Guadalupe, Tulio %A Wittfeld, Katharina %A Mosley, Thomas H %A Becker, James T %A Doan, Nhat Trung %A Hagenaars, Saskia P %A Saba, Yasaman %A Cuellar-Partida, Gabriel %A Amin, Najaf %A Hilal, Saima %A Nho, Kwangsik %A Mirza-Schreiber, Nazanin %A Arfanakis, Konstantinos %A Becker, Diane M %A Ames, David %A Goldman, Aaron L %A Lee, Phil H %A Boomsma, Dorret I %A Lovestone, Simon %A Giddaluru, Sudheer %A Le Hellard, Stephanie %A Mattheisen, Manuel %A Bohlken, Marc M %A Kasperaviciute, Dalia %A Schmaal, Lianne %A Lawrie, Stephen M %A Agartz, Ingrid %A Walton, Esther %A Tordesillas-Gutierrez, Diana %A Davies, Gareth E %A Shin, Jean %A Ipser, Jonathan C %A Vinke, Louis N %A Hoogman, Martine %A Jia, Tianye %A Burkhardt, Ralph %A Klein, Marieke %A Crivello, Fabrice %A Janowitz, Deborah %A Carmichael, Owen %A Haukvik, Unn K %A Aribisala, Benjamin S %A Schmidt, Helena %A Strike, Lachlan T %A Cheng, Ching-Yu %A Risacher, Shannon L %A Pütz, Benno %A Fleischman, Debra A %A Assareh, Amelia A %A Mattay, Venkata S %A Buckner, Randy L %A Mecocci, Patrizia %A Dale, Anders M %A Cichon, Sven %A Boks, Marco P %A Matarin, Mar %A Penninx, Brenda W J H %A Calhoun, Vince D %A Chakravarty, M Mallar %A Marquand, Andre F %A Macare, Christine %A Kharabian Masouleh, Shahrzad %A Oosterlaan, Jaap %A Amouyel, Philippe %A Hegenscheid, Katrin %A Rotter, Jerome I %A Schork, Andrew J %A Liewald, David C M %A de Zubicaray, Greig I %A Wong, Tien Yin %A Shen, Li %A Sämann, Philipp G %A Brodaty, Henry %A Roffman, Joshua L %A de Geus, Eco J C %A Tsolaki, Magda %A Erk, Susanne %A van Eijk, Kristel R %A Cavalleri, Gianpiero L %A van der Wee, Nic J A %A McIntosh, Andrew M %A Gollub, Randy L %A Bulayeva, Kazima B %A Bernard, Manon %A Richards, Jennifer S %A Himali, Jayandra J %A Loeffler, Markus %A Rommelse, Nanda %A Hoffmann, Wolfgang %A Westlye, Lars T %A Valdés Hernández, Maria C %A Hansell, Narelle K %A van Erp, Theo G M %A Wolf, Christiane %A Kwok, John B J %A Vellas, Bruno %A Heinz, Andreas %A Olde Loohuis, Loes M %A Delanty, Norman %A Ho, Beng-Choon %A Ching, Christopher R K %A Shumskaya, Elena %A Singh, Baljeet %A Hofman, Albert %A van der Meer, Dennis %A Homuth, Georg %A Psaty, Bruce M %A Bastin, Mark E %A Montgomery, Grant W %A Foroud, Tatiana M %A Reppermund, Simone %A Hottenga, Jouke-Jan %A Simmons, Andrew %A Meyer-Lindenberg, Andreas %A Cahn, Wiepke %A Whelan, Christopher D %A van Donkelaar, Marjolein M J %A Yang, Qiong %A Hosten, Norbert %A Green, Robert C %A Thalamuthu, Anbupalam %A Mohnke, Sebastian %A Hulshoff Pol, Hilleke E %A Lin, Honghuang %A Jack, Clifford R %A Schofield, Peter R %A Mühleisen, Thomas W %A Maillard, Pauline %A Potkin, Steven G %A Wen, Wei %A Fletcher, Evan %A Toga, Arthur W %A Gruber, Oliver %A Huentelman, Matthew %A Davey Smith, George %A Launer, Lenore J %A Nyberg, Lars %A Jönsson, Erik G %A Crespo-Facorro, Benedicto %A Koen, Nastassja %A Greve, Douglas N %A Uitterlinden, André G %A Weinberger, Daniel R %A Steen, Vidar M %A Fedko, Iryna O %A Groenewold, Nynke A %A Niessen, Wiro J %A Toro, Roberto %A Tzourio, Christophe %A Longstreth, William T %A Ikram, M Kamran %A Smoller, Jordan W %A van Tol, Marie-Jose %A Sussmann, Jessika E %A Paus, Tomáš %A Lemaître, Hervé %A Schroeter, Matthias L %A Mazoyer, Bernard %A Andreassen, Ole A %A Holsboer, Florian %A Depondt, Chantal %A Veltman, Dick J %A Turner, Jessica A %A Pausova, Zdenka %A Schumann, Gunter %A van Rooij, Daan %A Djurovic, Srdjan %A Deary, Ian J %A McMahon, Katie L %A Müller-Myhsok, Bertram %A Brouwer, Rachel M %A Soininen, Hilkka %A Pandolfo, Massimo %A Wassink, Thomas H %A Cheung, Joshua W %A Wolfers, Thomas %A Martinot, Jean-Luc %A Zwiers, Marcel P %A Nauck, Matthias %A Melle, Ingrid %A Martin, Nicholas G %A Kanai, Ryota %A Westman, Eric %A Kahn, René S %A Sisodiya, Sanjay M %A White, Tonya %A Saremi, Arvin %A van Bokhoven, Hans %A Brunner, Han G %A Völzke, Henry %A Wright, Margaret J %A van 't Ent, Dennis %A Nöthen, Markus M %A Ophoff, Roel A %A Buitelaar, Jan K %A Fernández, Guillén %A Sachdev, Perminder S %A Rietschel, Marcella %A van Haren, Neeltje E M %A Fisher, Simon E %A Beiser, Alexa S %A Francks, Clyde %A Saykin, Andrew J %A Mather, Karen A %A Romanczuk-Seiferth, Nina %A Hartman, Catharina A %A DeStefano, Anita L %A Heslenfeld, Dirk J %A Weiner, Michael W %A Walter, Henrik %A Hoekstra, Pieter J %A Nyquist, Paul A %A Franke, Barbara %A Bennett, David A %A Grabe, Hans J %A Johnson, Andrew D %A Chen, Christopher %A van Duijn, Cornelia M %A Lopez, Oscar L %A Fornage, Myriam %A Wardlaw, Joanna M %A Schmidt, Reinhold %A DeCarli, Charles %A De Jager, Philip L %A Villringer, Arno %A Debette, Stephanie %A Gudnason, Vilmundur %A Medland, Sarah E %A Shulman, Joshua M %A Thompson, Paul M %A Seshadri, Sudha %A Ikram, M Arfan %X

Subcortical brain structures are integral to motion, consciousness, emotions and learning. We identified common genetic variation related to the volumes of the nucleus accumbens, amygdala, brainstem, caudate nucleus, globus pallidus, putamen and thalamus, using genome-wide association analyses in almost 40,000 individuals from CHARGE, ENIGMA and UK Biobank. We show that variability in subcortical volumes is heritable, and identify 48 significantly associated loci (40 novel at the time of analysis). Annotation of these loci by utilizing gene expression, methylation and neuropathological data identified 199 genes putatively implicated in neurodevelopment, synaptic signaling, axonal transport, apoptosis, inflammation/infection and susceptibility to neurological disorders. This set of genes is significantly enriched for Drosophila orthologs associated with neurodevelopmental phenotypes, suggesting evolutionarily conserved mechanisms. Our findings uncover novel biology and potential drug targets underlying brain development and disease.

%B Nat Genet %V 51 %P 1624-1636 %8 2019 Nov %G eng %N 11 %R 10.1038/s41588-019-0511-y %0 Journal Article %J Science %D 2020 %T The genetic architecture of the human cerebral cortex %A Grasby, Katrina L. %A Jahanshad, Neda %A Painter, Jodie N. %A Colodro-Conde, Lucía %A Bralten, Janita %A Hibar, Derrek P. %A Lind, Penelope A. %A Pizzagalli, Fabrizio %A Ching, Christopher R. K. %A McMahon, Mary Agnes B. %A Shatokhina, Natalia %A Zsembik, Leo C. P. %A Thomopoulos, Sophia I. %A Zhu, Alyssa H. %A Strike, Lachlan T. %A Agartz, Ingrid %A Alhusaini, Saud %A Almeida, Marcio A. A. %A Alnæs, Dag %A Amlien, Inge K. %A Andersson, Micael %A Ard, Tyler %A Armstrong, Nicola J. %A Ashley-Koch, Allison %A Atkins, Joshua R. %A Bernard, Manon %A Brouwer, Rachel M. %A Buimer, Elizabeth E. L. %A Bülow, Robin %A Bürger, Christian %A Cannon, Dara M. %A Chakravarty, Mallar %A Chen, Qiang %A Cheung, Joshua W. %A Couvy-Duchesne, Baptiste %A Dale, Anders M. %A Dalvie, Shareefa %A de Araujo, Tânia K. %A de Zubicaray, Greig I. %A de Zwarte, Sonja M. C. %A den Braber, Anouk %A Doan, Nhat Trung %A Dohm, Katharina %A Ehrlich, Stefan %A Engelbrecht, Hannah-Ruth %A Erk, Susanne %A Fan, Chun Chieh %A Fedko, Iryna O. %A Foley, Sonya F. %A Ford, Judith M. %A Fukunaga, Masaki %A Garrett, Melanie E. %A Ge, Tian %A Giddaluru, Sudheer %A Goldman, Aaron L. %A Green, Melissa J. %A Groenewold, Nynke A. %A Grotegerd, Dominik %A Gurholt, Tiril P. %A Gutman, Boris A. %A Hansell, Narelle K. %A Harris, Mathew A. %A Harrison, Marc B. %A Haswell, Courtney C. %A Hauser, Michael %A Herms, Stefan %A Heslenfeld, Dirk J. %A Ho, New Fei %A Hoehn, David %A Hoffmann, Per %A Holleran, Laurena %A Hoogman, Martine %A Hottenga, Jouke-Jan %A Ikeda, Masashi %A Janowitz, Deborah %A Jansen, Iris E. %A Jia, Tianye %A Jockwitz, Christiane %A Kanai, Ryota %A Karama, Sherif %A Kasperaviciute, Dalia %A Kaufmann, Tobias %A Kelly, Sinead %A Kikuchi, Masataka %A Klein, Marieke %A Knapp, Michael %A Knodt, Annchen R. %A Krämer, Bernd %A Lam, Max %A Lancaster, Thomas M. %A Lee, Phil H. %A Lett, Tristram A. %A Lewis, Lindsay B. %A Lopes-Cendes, Iscia %A Luciano, Michelle %A Macciardi, Fabio %A Marquand, Andre F. %A Mathias, Samuel R. %A Melzer, Tracy R. %A Milaneschi, Yuri %A Mirza-Schreiber, Nazanin %A Moreira, Jose C. 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