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Duplications of the neuropeptide receptor gene VIPR2 confer significant risk for schizophrenia

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Vacic, Vladimir, McCarthy, Shane, Malhotra, Dheeraj, Murray, Fiona, Chou, Hsun-Hua, Peoples, Aine, Makarov, Vladimir, Yoon, Seungtai +22 more·2011·Nature

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Rare copy number variants (CNVs) have a prominent role in the aetiology of schizophrenia and other neuropsychiatric disorders. Substantial risk for schizophrenia is conferred by large (>500-kilobase) CNVs at several loci, including microdeletions at 1q21.1 (ref. 2), 3q29 (ref. 3), 15q13.3 (ref. 2) and 22q11.2 (ref. 4) and microduplication at 16p11.2 (ref. 5). However, these CNVs collectively account for a small fraction (2-4%) of cases, and the relevant genes and neurobiological mechanisms are not well understood. Here we performed a large two-stage genome-wide scan of rare CNVs and report the significant association of copy number gains at chromosome 7q36.3 with schizophrenia. Microduplications with variable breakpoints occurred within a 362-kilobase region and were detected in 29 of 8,290 (0.35%) patients versus 2 of 7,431 (0.03%) controls in the combined sample. All duplications overlapped or were located within 89 kilobases upstream of the vasoactive intestinal peptide receptor gene VIPR2. VIPR2 transcription and cyclic-AMP signalling were significantly increased in cultured lymphocytes from patients with microduplications of 7q36.3. These findings implicate altered vasoactive intestinal peptide signalling in the pathogenesis of schizophrenia and indicate the VPAC2 receptor as a potential target for the development of new antipsychotic drugs.

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  • In humans, duplication of the vasoactive intestinal polypeptide receptor (Vipr2) is associated with increased risk for schizophrenia.

    “In humans, duplication of the vasoactive intestinal polypeptide receptor (Vipr2) is associated with increased risk for SZ170,171.”

    From Circadian rhythm disruption and mental health (2020) · cites this paper as [170]

  • Disease-associated VIPR2 variants result in overexpression of VIPR2 and increased cyclic-AMP accumulation.

    “Disease associated variants result in overexpression of VIPR2 and increased cyclic-AMP accumulation (Vacic et al., 2011).”

    From CNVs: Harbingers of a Rare Variant Revolution in Psychiatric Genetics (2012) · cites this paper as Vacic et al., 2011

  • Rare microduplications of VIPR2 are significantly associated with schizophrenia.

    “Rare microduplications of VIPR2 are significantly associated with schizophrenia (Vacic et al., 2011).”

    From CNVs: Harbingers of a Rare Variant Revolution in Psychiatric Genetics (2012) · cites this paper as Vacic et al., 2011

  • The three significant schizophrenia regions correspond to CNVs previously implicated in schizophrenia at 3q29, 7q36.3, and 16p11.2.

    “In schizophrenia, three genomic regions were significant (Table S6B), all corresponding to CNVs that have been previously implicated in schizophrenia at 3q29 (Mulle et al., 2010), 7q36.3 (Vacic et al., 2011), and 16p11.2 (McCarthy et al., 2009).”

    From High frequencies of de novo CNVs in bipolar disorder and schizophrenia (2011) · cites this paper as Vacic et al., 2011

  • The enriched pathways were tested in rare CNVs from large independent case-control datasets: 8,290 schizophrenia cases and 7,431 controls from Vacic et al., a combined sample from three studies, and a bipolar disorder case-control set of 2,777 cases and 3,508 controls from BiGS.

    “We extended our analysis of pathways identified in this study (Table 4 and Table 5, and S7) to rare CNVs from large case-controls studies of SCZ and BD. These included rare CNVs from 8,290 SCZ cases and 7,431 controls from Vacic et al. (2011), a combined sample of three studies from our group, MGS (Levinson et al., 2011), and the International Schizophrenia Consortium (International Schizophrenia”

    From High frequencies of de novo CNVs in bipolar disorder and schizophrenia (2011) · cites this paper as Vacic et al. (2011)

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Vacic, V., McCarthy, S., Malhotra, D., Murray, F., Chou, H.-H., Peoples, A., Makarov, V., Yoon, S., Bhandari, A., Corominas, R., Iakoucheva, L. M., Krastoshevsky, O., Krause, V., Larach-Walters, V., Welsh, D. K., Craig, D., Kelsoe, J. R., Gershon, E. S., Leal, S. M., Aquila, M. D., Morris, D. W., Gill, M., Corvin, A., Insel, P. A., McClellan, J., King, M.-C., Karayiorgou, M., Levy, D. L., DeLisi, L. E., & Sebat, J.
Affiliations
  • Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (US)
  • University of California San Diego (US)
  • Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (US)
  • McLean Hospital (US)
  • Translational Genomics Research Institute (US)
  • University of Chicago (US)
  • Baylor College of Medicine (US)
  • Trinity College Dublin (IE)
  • University of Washington (US)
  • Columbia University (US)
  • Harvard University (US)
Corresponding author
Sebat, Jonathan
Venue
Nature
Published
2011-02-23
Volume
471
Issue
7339
Pages
499-503
ISSN
  • 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
  • 1476-4687
OpenAlex
W2156825608
Cited by
337
References
31
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FWCI
36.96
Type
journal article
Language
en
Update notices
erratum (2011-06-01)
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  • Nature (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Institutional Repository (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (acceptedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
  • eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
  • Repositorio Institucional Académico , Sistema de Bibliotecas Universidad Andrés Bello (UNAB) (Universidad Andrés Bello (UNAB)) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • Lenus, The Irish Health Repository (Dr Steevens Hospital Library) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • Wellcome Trust (072894/Z/03/Z)
  • National Institutes of Health (2r01mh044245-06a1, 5r01mh071523-05)
  • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (R00HL091061, K99HL091061)
  • National Institute of Mental Health (MH061399, R01MH091350, R01MH061399, MH044245, MH076431, MH071523, R01MH082945, MH082945, R01-MH071523, MH083989, R01MH083989, R01MH076431)
  • National Human Genome Research Institute (P41HG004222, HG04222)
  • National Institute of General Medical Sciences (GM–66232, R01GM066232)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
Keywords
schizophrenia, copy number variation, gene duplication, VIPR2, vasoactive intestinal peptide receptor, microduplication, cAMP signaling, antipsychotic drug targets, genetic risk, lymphocytes, genome-wide association study, rare copy number variants
MeSH terms
Cyclic AMP, Cell Line, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 7, Female, Humans, Male, Pedigree, Schizophrenia, Transcription, Genetic, Reproducibility of Results, Cohort Studies, Signal Transduction, Gene Dosage, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genes, Duplicate, Inheritance Patterns, Receptors, Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide, Type II, Genome-Wide Association Study, DNA Copy Number Variations

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