Title
Genome-wide analysis of copy number variants in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: the role of rare variants and duplications at 15q13.3
UMMS Affiliation
Department of Quantitative Health Sciences
Publication Date
2012-2
Document Type
Article
Subjects
Adolescent; *Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity; Canada; Causality; Child; Child, Preschool; Female; *Gene Dosage; Genetic Predisposition to Disease; Genome-Wide Association Study; Great Britain; Humans; In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence; Inheritance Patterns; Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; Receptors, Nicotinic; Segmental Duplications, Genomic; United States
Disciplines
Genetics and Genomics | Psychiatry and Psychology
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a common, highly heritable psychiatric disorder. Because of its multifactorial etiology, however, identifying the genes involved has been difficult. The authors followed up on recent findings suggesting that rare copy number variants (CNVs) may be important for ADHD etiology.
METHOD: The authors performed a genome-wide analysis of large, rare CNVs (100 kb in size, which segregated into 912 independent loci. Overall, the rate of rare CNVs >100 kb was 1.15 times higher in ADHD case subjects relative to comparison subjects, with duplications spanning known genes showing a 1.2-fold enrichment. In accordance with a previous study, rare CNVs >500 kb showed the greatest enrichment (1.28-fold). CNVs identified in ADHD case subjects were significantly enriched for loci implicated in autism and in schizophrenia. Duplications spanning the CHRNA7 gene at chromosome 15q13.3 were associated with ADHD in single-locus analysis. This finding was consistently replicated in an additional 2,242 ADHD case subjects and 8,552 comparison subjects from four independent cohorts from the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada. Presence of the duplication at 15q13.3 appeared to be associated with comorbid conduct disorder.
CONCLUSIONS: These findings support the enrichment of large, rare CNVs in ADHD and implicate duplications at 15q13.3 as a novel risk factor for ADHD. With a frequency of 0.6% in the populations investigated and a relatively large effect size (odds ratio=2.22, 95% confidence interval=1.5-3.6), this locus could be an important contributor to ADHD etiology.
DOI of Published Version
10.1176/appi.ajp.2011.11060822
Source
Am J Psychiatry. 2012 Feb;169(2):195-204.
Journal/Book/Conference Title
The American journal of psychiatry
PubMed ID
22420048
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Repository Citation
Williams, Nigel M.; Franke, Barbara; Mick, Eric; Anney, Richard J.; Freitag, Christine M.; Gill, Michael; Thapar, Anita; O'Donovan, Michael C.; Owen, Michael J.; Holmans, Peter; Kent, Lindsey; Middleton, Frank; Zhang-James, Yanli; Liu, Lu; Meyer, Jobst; Nguyen, Thuy Trang; Romanos, Jasmin; romanos, Marcel; Seitz, Christiane; Renner, Tobias J.; Walitza, Susanne; Warnke, Andreas; Palmason, Haukur; Buitelaar, Jan; Rommelse, Nanda; Vasquez, Alejandro Arias; Hawi, Ziarih; Langley, Kate; Sergeant, Joseph; Steinhausen, Hans-Christoph; Roeyers, Herbert; Biederman, Joseph; Zaharieva, Irina; Hakonarson, Hakon; Elia, Josephine; Lionel, Anath C.; Crosbie, Jennifer; Marshall, Christian R.; Schachar, Russell; Scherer, Stephen W.; Todorov, Alexandre; Smalley, Susan L.; Loo, Sandra K.; Nelson, Stanley; Shtir, Corina; Asherson, Philip; Reif, Andreas; Lesch, Klaus-Peter; and Faraone, Stephen V., "Genome-wide analysis of copy number variants in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: the role of rare variants and duplications at 15q13.3" (2012). Population and Quantitative Health Sciences Publications. 1047.
https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/qhs_pp/1047