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Genome-wide meta-analyses reveal novel loci for verbal short-term memory and learning

  • Jari Lahti*
  • , Samuli Tuominen
  • , Qiong Yang
  • , Giulio Pergola
  • , Shahzad Ahmad
  • , Najaf Amin
  • , Nicola J. Armstrong
  • , Alexa Beiser
  • , Katharina Bey
  • , Joshua C. Bis
  • , Eric Boerwinkle
  • , Jan Bressler
  • , Archie Campbell
  • , Harry Campbell
  • , Qiang Chen
  • , Janie Corley
  • , Simon R. Cox
  • , Gail Davies
  • , Philip L. De Jager
  • , Eske M. Derks
  • Jessica D. Faul, Annette L. Fitzpatrick, Alison E. Fohner, Ian Ford, Myriam Fornage, Zachary Gerring, Hans J. Grabe, Francine Grodstein, Vilmundur Gudnason, Eleanor Simonsick, Elizabeth G. Holliday, Peter K. Joshi, Eero Kajantie, Jaakko Kaprio, Pauliina Karell, Luca Kleineidam, Maria J. Knol, Nicole A. Kochan, John B. Kwok, Markus Leber, Max Lam, Teresa Lee, Shuo Li, Anu Loukola, Tobias Luck, Riccardo E. Marioni, Karen A. Mather, Sarah Medland, Saira S. Mirza, Mike A. Nalls, Kwangsik Nho, Adrienne O'Donnell, Christopher Oldmeadow, Jodie Painter, Alison Pattie, Simone Reppermund, Shannon L. Risacher, Richard J. Rose, Vijay Sadashivaiah, Markus Scholz, Claudia L. Satizabal, Peter W. Schofield, Katharina E. Schraut, Rodney J. Scott, Jeannette Simino, Albert V. Smith, Jennifer A. Smith, David J. Stott, Ida Surakka, Alexander Teumer, Anbupalam Thalamuthu, Stella Trompet, Stephen T. Turner, Sven J. van der Lee, Arno Villringer, Uwe Voelker, Robert S. Wilson, Katharina Wittfeld, Eero Vuoksimaa, Rui Xia, Kristine Yaffe, Lei Yu, Habil Zare, Wei Zhao, David Ames, John Attia, David A. Bennett, Henry Brodaty, Daniel I. Chasman, Aaron L. Goldman, Caroline Hayward, M. Arfan Ikram, J. Wouter Jukema, Sharon L. R. Kardia, Todd Lencz, Markus Loeffler, Venkata S. Mattay, Aarno Palotie, Bruce M. Psaty, Alfredo Ramirez, Paul M. Ridker, Steffi G. Riedel-Heller, Perminder S. Sachdev, Andrew J. Saykin, Martin Scherer, Peter R. Schofield, Stephen Sidney, John M. Starr, Julian Trollor, William Ulrich, Michael Wagner, David R. Weir, James F. Wilson, Margaret J. Wright, Daniel R. Weinberger, Stephanie Debette, Johan G. Eriksson, Thomas H. Mosley, Lenore J. Launer, Cornelia M. van Duijn, Ian J. Deary, Sudha Seshadri, Katri Raikkonen
*Corresponding author for this work
  • Turku University Hospital
  • Helsinki University Hospital and University of Helsinki
  • Boston University
  • Universita degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro
  • Murdoch University
  • The Framingham Heart Study
  • German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases
  • University of Washington
  • Baylor College of Medicine
  • University of Texas School Public Health
  • University of Edinburgh
  • Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
  • Columbia University
  • Queensland Institute of Medical Research
  • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • University of Glasgow
  • University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
  • Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
  • Agricultural University of Iceland
  • National Institutes of Health
  • University of Newcastle
  • Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois
  • Oulu University Hospital
  • University Hospital Bonn
  • Prince Wales Hosp, Neuropsychiat Inst
  • University of New South Wales
  • German Sport University Cologne
  • Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
  • Helsinki University Central Hospital
  • LIFE-Leipzig Research Centre for Civilization Diseases
  • University of Toronto at Randwick
  • Data Tecn Int
  • Indiana University Bloomington
  • University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
  • Hunter New England Local Health District
  • University of Mississippi Medical Center
  • Leiden University
  • Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN
  • Leipzig University
  • Greifswald Medical School
  • Rush University
  • University of California at San Francisco
  • Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
  • Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute
  • Northwell Health System
  • US Food & Drug Administration (FDA)
  • Kaiser Permanente
  • University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
  • Neuroscience Research Australia
  • Griffith University Queensland
  • Johns Hopkins University
  • Bordeaux University Hospital CHU Bordeaux
  • National University Hospital (Singapore)
  • University of Toronto
  • Leipzig University of Applied Sciences
  • University Medicine Greifswald
  • VU University Medical Center
  • University of Oxford

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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.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)4419-4431
Number of pages13
JournalMolecular Psychiatry
Volume27
Issue number11
Early online date16 Aug 2022
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Nov 2022

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