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Genome-wide association study implicates NDST3 in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder

Overview of attention for article published in Nature Communications, November 2013
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Title
Genome-wide association study implicates NDST3 in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder
Published in
Nature Communications, November 2013
DOI 10.1038/ncomms3739
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Authors

Todd Lencz, Saurav Guha, Chunyu Liu, Jeffrey Rosenfeld, Semanti Mukherjee, Pamela DeRosse, Majnu John, Lijun Cheng, Chunling Zhang, Judith A. Badner, Masashi Ikeda, Nakao Iwata, Sven Cichon, Marcella Rietschel, Markus M. Nöthen, A.T.A. Cheng, Colin Hodgkinson, Qiaoping Yuan, John M. Kane, Annette T. Lee, Anne Pisanté, Peter K. Gregersen, Itsik Pe’er, Anil K. Malhotra, David Goldman, Ariel Darvasi

Abstract

Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are major psychiatric disorders with high heritability and overlapping genetic variance. Here we perform a genome-wide association study in an ethnically homogeneous cohort of 904 schizophrenia cases and 1,640 controls drawn from the Ashkenazi Jewish population. We identify a novel genome-wide significant risk locus at chromosome 4q26, demonstrating the potential advantages of this founder population for gene discovery. The top single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP; rs11098403) demonstrates consistent effects across 11 replication and extension cohorts, totalling 23, 191 samples across multiple ethnicities, regardless of diagnosis (schizophrenia or bipolar disorder), resulting in Pmeta=9.49 × 10(-12) (odds ratio (OR)=1.13, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.08-1.17) across both disorders and Pmeta=2.67 × 10(-8) (OR=1.15, 95% CI: 1.08-1.21) for schizophrenia alone. In addition, this intergenic SNP significantly predicts postmortem cerebellar gene expression of NDST3, which encodes an enzyme critical to heparan sulphate metabolism. Heparan sulphate binding is critical to neurite outgrowth, axon formation and synaptic processes thought to be aberrant in these disorders.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 <1%
India 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 128 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 27 21%
Researcher 22 17%
Student > Master 12 9%
Other 11 8%
Student > Bachelor 9 7%
Other 24 18%
Unknown 26 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 28 21%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 20 15%
Medicine and Dentistry 16 12%
Neuroscience 12 9%
Psychology 4 3%
Other 15 11%
Unknown 36 27%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 81. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 March 2024.
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