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Genetic comorbidity between major depression and cardio‐metabolic traits, stratified by age at onset of major depression

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Hagenaars, Saskia P., Coleman, Jonathan R. I., Choi, Shing Wan, Gaspar, Héléna, Adams, Mark J., Howard, David M., Hodgson, Karen, Traylor, Matthew +40 more·2020·American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics

Abstract

It is imperative to understand the specific and shared etiologies of major depression and cardio‐metabolic disease, as both traits are frequently comorbid and each represents a major burden to society. This study examined whether there is a genetic association between major depression and cardio‐metabolic traits and if this association is stratified by age at onset for major depression. Polygenic risk scores analysis and linkage disequilibrium score regression was performed to examine whether differences in shared genetic etiology exist between depression case control status (N cases = 40,940,N controls = 67,532), earlier (N= 15,844), and later onset depression (N= 15,800) with body mass index, coronary artery disease, stroke, and type 2 diabetes in 11 data sets from the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium, Generation Scotland, and UK Biobank. All cardio‐metabolic polygenic risk scores were associated with depression status. Significant genetic correlations were found between depression and body mass index, coronary artery disease, and type 2 diabetes. Higher polygenic risk for body mass index, coronary artery disease, and type 2 diabetes was associated with both early and later onset depression, while higher polygenic risk for stroke was associated with later onset depression only. Significant genetic correlations were found between body mass index and later onset depression, and between coronary artery disease and both early and late onset depression. The phenotypic associations between major depression and cardio‐metabolic traits may partly reflect their overlapping genetic etiology irrespective of the age depression first presents.

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Hagenaars, S. P., Coleman, J. R. I., Choi, S. W., Gaspar, H., Adams, M. J., Howard, D. M., Hodgson, K., Traylor, M., Air, T. M., Andlauer, T. F. M., Arolt, V., Baune, B. T., Binder, E. B., Blackwood, D. H. R., Boomsma, D. I., Campbell, A., Cearns, M., Czamara, D., Dannlowski, U., Domschke, K., de Geus, E. J. C., Hamilton, S. P., Hayward, C., Hickie, I. B., Hottenga, J. J., Ising, M., Jones, I., Jones, L., Kutalik, Z., Lucae, S., Martin, N. G., Milaneschi, Y., Mueller‐Myhsok, B., Owen, M. J., Padmanabhan, S., Penninx, B. W. J. H., Pistis, G., Porteous, D. J., Preisig, M., Ripke, S., Shyn, S. I., Sullivan, P. F., Whitfield, J. B., Wray, N. R., McIntosh, A. M., Deary, I. J., Breen, G., & Lewis, C. M.
Affiliations
  • King's College London (GB)
  • University of Edinburgh (GB)
  • Queen Mary University of London (GB)
  • The University of Adelaide (AU)
  • TUM Klinikum (DE)
  • University of Münster (DE)
  • The University of Melbourne (AU)
  • Emory University (US)
  • Institute of Genetics and Cancer (GB)
  • Amsterdam Public Health (NL)
  • Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry (DE)
  • University of Freiburg (DE)
  • Netherlands Twin Register, Biological Psychology, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam The Netherlands
  • Kaiser Permanente Northern California (US)
  • The University of Sydney (AU)
  • Cardiff University (GB)
  • University of Worcester (GB)
  • Center for Primary Care and Public Health University of Lausanne Lausanne Switzerland
  • QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute (AU)
  • Amsterdam Neuroscience (NL)
  • Department of Translational Research in Psychiatry Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry Munich Germany
  • Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CH)
  • Broad Institute (US)
  • Kaiser Permanente (US)
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
  • The University of Queensland (AU)
Corresponding author
Lewis, Cathryn M.
Venue
American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2020-07-18
Volume
183
Issue
6
Pages
309-330
ISSN
  • 1552-4841 (ISSN-L)
  • 1552-485X
OpenAlex
W3042830188
Cited by
61
References
60
Citations by year
2026: 10 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 14 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 16 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 1
FWCI
4.40
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Funders
  • National Institute for Health Research (Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre)
  • National Institute of Mental Health (U01 MH109528, U01 MH1095320)
  • Medical Research Council Canada (MR/S0151132, MR/N015746/1)
  • European Commission
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
Keywords
major depressive disorder, age at onset of depression, genetic comorbidity, polygenic risk score, genetic correlation, body mass index, coronary artery disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes, shared genetic etiology
MeSH terms
Cardiometabolic Risk Factors, Age Factors, Coronary Artery Disease, Depression, Major Depressive Disorder, Depressive Disorder, Major, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, Female, Genotype, Humans, Male, Phenotype, Linkage Disequilibrium, Comorbidity, Body Mass Index, Case-Control Studies, Age of Onset, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Multifactorial Inheritance, Stroke, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Metabolic Syndrome, Databases, Genetic, Genome-Wide Association Study, Genetic Association Studies

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