Genetic correlation between amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and schizophrenia

groep; Russell L. McLaughlin; Dick Schijven; Wouter Van Rheenen; Kristel R. Van Eijk; Margaret O'Brien; René S. Kahn; Roel A. Ophoff; An Goris; Daniel G. Bradley; Ammar Al-Chalabi; Leonard H. Van Den Berg; Jurjen J. Luykx; Orla Hardiman; Jan H. Veldink; Aleksey Shatunov; Andre G. Uitterlinden; Fernando Rivadeneira; Albert Hofman; Lyudmila Georgieva; Tao Li; Danielle Posthuma

doi:10.1038/ncomms14774

Genetic correlation between amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and schizophrenia

groep
, Russell L. McLaughlin^*
, Dick Schijven
, Wouter Van Rheenen
, Kristel R. Van Eijk
, Margaret O'Brien
, René S. Kahn
, Roel A. Ophoff
, An Goris
, Daniel G. Bradley
, Ammar Al-Chalabi
, Leonard H. Van Den Berg
, Jurjen J. Luykx
, Orla Hardiman
, Jan H. Veldink
, Aleksey Shatunov
, Andre G. Uitterlinden
, Fernando Rivadeneira
, Albert Hofman
, Lyudmila Georgieva

Tao Li, Danielle Posthuma

^*Corresponding author for this work

St. James’s Hospital
Utrecht University
University Medical Centre Utrecht
University of California
KU Leuven
King's College London
Hospital Network Antwerp (ZNA) Stuivenberg/Middelheim
Macquarie University
The University of Sydney
Land and Water Business Unit
Amsterdam UMC
IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano - Milano
University of Milan
Sorbonne Université
Centre SLA Ile de France
Centro Hospitalar Universitário Lisboa Norte
Hospital de Santa Maria
Hospital Universitario La Paz
Autonomous University of Barcelona
Emory University School of Medicine
Euan MacDonald Centre for Motor Neurone Disease Research
University of Edinburgh

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We have previously shown higher-than-expected rates of schizophrenia in relatives of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), suggesting an aetiological relationship between the diseases. Here, we investigate the genetic relationship between ALS and schizophrenia using genome-wide association study data from over 100,000 unique individuals. Using linkage disequilibrium score regression, we estimate the genetic correlation between ALS and schizophrenia to be 14.3% (7.05-21.6; P=1 × 10^-4) with schizophrenia polygenic risk scores explaining up to 0.12% of the variance in ALS (P=8.4 × 10^-7). A modest increase in comorbidity of ALS and schizophrenia is expected given these findings (odds ratio 1.08-1.26) but this would require very large studies to observe epidemiologically. We identify five potential novel ALS-associated loci using conditional false discovery rate analysis. It is likely that shared neurobiological mechanisms between these two disorders will engender novel hypotheses in future preclinical and clinical studies.

Original language	English
Article number	14774
Journal	Nature Communications
Volume	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14774
Publication status	Published - 21 Mar 2017

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groep, McLaughlin, R. L., Schijven, D., Van Rheenen, W., Van Eijk, K. R., O'Brien, M., Kahn, R. S., Ophoff, R. A., Goris, A., Bradley, D. G., Al-Chalabi, A., Van Den Berg, L. H., Luykx, J. J., Hardiman, O., Veldink, J. H., Shatunov, A., Uitterlinden, A. G., Rivadeneira, F., Hofman, A., ... Posthuma, D. (2017). Genetic correlation between amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and schizophrenia. Nature Communications, 8, Article 14774. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14774

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