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A Role for Noncoding Variation in Schizophrenia

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Roussos, Panos, Mitchell, Amanda C., Voloudakis, Georgios, Fullard, John F., Pothula, Venu M., Tsang, Jonathan, Stahl, Eli A., Georgakopoulos, Anastasios +17 more·2014·Cell Reports

Abstract

A large portion of common variant loci associated with genetic risk for schizophrenia reside within noncoding sequence of unknown function. Here, we demonstrate promoter and enhancer enrichment in schizophrenia variants associated with expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL). The enrichment is greater when functional annotations derived from the human brain are used relative to peripheral tissues. Regulatory trait concordance analysis ranked genes within schizophrenia genome-wide significant loci for a potential functional role, based on colocalization of a risk SNP, eQTL, and regulatory element sequence. We identified potential physical interactions of noncontiguous proximal and distal regulatory elements. This was verified in prefrontal cortex and -induced pluripotent stem cell-derived neurons for the L-type calcium channel (CACNA1C) risk locus. Our findings point to a functional link between schizophrenia-associated noncoding SNPs and 3D genome architecture associated with chromosomal loopings and transcriptional regulation in the brain.

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  • Schizophrenia GWAS SNPs occur more often than chance in cis-regulatory functional genomic elements such as enhancers or eQTL SNPs.

    “Indeed, GWAS SNPs associated with SCZ risk occur more often than expected by chance in cis-regulatory functional genomic elements, such as enhancers or eQTL SNPs3,21–24.”
  • GWAS SNPs associated with schizophrenia risk occur more often than expected by chance in cis-regulatory functional genomic elements, such as enhancers or eQTL SNPs.

    “Indeed, GWAS SNPs associated with SCZ risk occur more often than expected by chance in cis-regulatory functional genomic elements, such as enhancers or eQTL SNPs3,21–24.”

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Roussos, P., Mitchell, A. C., Voloudakis, G., Fullard, J. F., Pothula, V. M., Tsang, J., Stahl, E. A., Georgakopoulos, A., Ruderfer, D. M., Charney, A., Okada, Y., Siminovitch, K. A., Worthington, J., Padyukov, L., Klareskog, L., Gregersen, P. K., Plenge, R. M., Raychaudhuri, S., Fromer, M., Purcell, S. M., Brennand, K. J., Robakis, N. K., Schadt, E. E., Akbarian, S., & Sklar, P.
Affiliations
  • James J. Peters VA Medical Center (US)
  • Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (US)
  • Tokyo Medical and Dental University (JP)
  • Mount Sinai Hospital (CA)
  • National Health Service (GB)
  • Karolinska Institutet (SE)
  • Northwell Health (US)
  • Broad Institute (US)
Corresponding author
  • Roussos, Panos
  • Sklar, Pamela
Venue
Cell Reports
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2014-11
Volume
9
Issue
4
Pages
1417-1429
ISSN
2211-1247 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W1992176272
Cited by
251
References
59
Citations by year
2026: 10 · 2025: 13 · 2024: 15 · 2023: 20 · 2022: 20 · 2021: 14 · 2020: 20 · 2019: 21 · 2018: 33 · 2017: 28 · 2016: 32 · 2015: 24 · 2014: 1
FWCI
18.39
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Cell Reports (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
  • Research Explorer (The University of Manchester) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (I01BX002395)
  • Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
  • Wellcome Trust
  • National Institute for Health and Care Research (MANMKBRU-2012-1)
  • Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
  • National Institute on Aging (R37AG017926, P50AG005138)
  • National Institute of Mental Health (P50MH096890, T32MH096678, R01MH097276, R01MH101454, U01MH103392, R01MH095034)
  • National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (R21NS076958, R01NS047229)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
Keywords
schizophrenia, non-coding variants, expression quantitative trait loci, promoter enrichment, CACNA1C, L-type calcium channels, 3D genome organization, chromatin looping, prefrontal cortex, iPSC-derived neurons, transcriptional regulation
MeSH terms
Arthritis, Rheumatoid, Enhancer Elements, Genetic, Gene Expression Regulation, Humans, Organ Specificity, Promoter Regions, Genetic, Protein Binding, Risk Factors, Schizophrenia, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Calcium Channels, L-Type, DNA, Intergenic, Databases, Genetic, Genome-Wide Association Study, Genetic Loci, Molecular Sequence Annotation

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