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Schizophrenia risk from complex variation of complement component 4
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Schizophrenia is a heritable brain illness with unknown pathogenic mechanisms. Schizophrenia's strongest genetic association at a population level involves variation in the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) locus, but the genes and molecular mechanisms accounting for this have been challenging to identify. Here we show that this association arises in part from many structurally diverse alleles of the complement component 4 (C4) genes. We found that these alleles generated widely varying levels of C4A and C4B expression in the brain, with each common C4 allele associating with schizophrenia in proportion to its tendency to generate greater expression of C4A. Human C4 protein localized to neuronal synapses, dendrites, axons, and cell bodies. In mice, C4 mediated synapse elimination during postnatal development. These results implicate excessive complement activity in the development of schizophrenia and may help explain the reduced numbers of synapses in the brains of individuals with schizophrenia.
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“Moreover, non-Bayesian alternatives—such as models based on disordered neuromodulation (Hu et al. 2015), disrupted synaptic pruning (Sekar et al. 2016), or abnormal cortical dynamics (Uhlhaas et al. 2009)—can also account for similar symptom profiles without invoking probabilistic inference.”
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“To identify core aging-upregulated genes, we looked for overlap in gene expression changes between all brain regions and identified 7 genes (Figure 2D), including markers of reactive as-trocytes, Gfap and Serpina3n (Zamanian et al., 2012), and a component of the complement cascade involved in synapse elimination, C4b (Sekar et al., 2016).”
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“Examples include the role of complement in the pathogenesis of acute macular degeneration38, synaptic pruning in schizophrenia64 and autophagy in inflammatory bowel disease65.”
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“Similar functional descriptions have been reported for individual loci implicated in schizo phrenia64, cardiovascular disease104, type 2 diabetes105 and Alzheimer’s disease106, among others.”
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“and indeed many of the genes whose pathological variation confers susceptibility to psychiatric disorders play fundamental roles in brain development 7-9 .”
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“However, the neurobiological mechanisms through which genetic variation imparts risk, both individually and in aggregate, are still largely unknown (4–6).”
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“In SCZ, PRS shows the genome-wide significant association with upregulation of the established risk gene C4A (5).”
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“Evidence supports hyperactive complement-mediated synaptic pruning in SCZ pathophysiology, presumably through microglia (5)”
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“the top GWAS-supported, and strongly upregulated, risk gene for SCZ (5).”
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“and seven variants in the MHC region around the HLA genes, also a region with extensive linkage to known causal variants associated with schizophrenia61.”
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“Studies of C1q, C4, C3, and CR3 knockout mice suggest that the mechanism of developmental synapse pruning in the retinogeniculate system involves C1q tagging of synapses, opsonization of synapses by C3b, and subsequent phagocytosis of synapses by microglia (Stevens et al., 2007; Schafer et al., 2012; Sekar et al., 2016; Fig. 3 A).”
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“we found a strong correlation between the risk alleles for SCZ and up-regulation of expression of C4A (complement component 4A; Spearman’s ρ = 0.66, P < 10−16).”
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“Ccl4 antibody specificity was tested using secondary antibody only controls as well as with antibody preadsorption using recombinant Ccl4 protein, as previously described (Sekar et al., 2016).”
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“For instance, we found substantial region-dependence in the magnitude and timing of C4b expression (Figure 1E), a complement component and major schizophrenia risk factor (Sekar et al., 2016) that is robustly up-regulated in aged mice (Hahn et al., 2020) and models of neurodegeneration (Zhou et al., 2020).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Sekar, A., Bialas, A. R., de Rivera, H., Davis, A., Hammond, T. R., Kamitaki, N., Tooley, K., Presumey, J., Baum, M., Van Doren, V., Genovese, G., Rose, S. A., Handsaker, R. E., Schizophrenia Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium, Daly, M. J., Carroll, M. C., Stevens, B., & McCarroll, S. A.
- Affiliations
- Broad Institute (US)
- Boston Children's Hospital (US)
- Corresponding author
- McCarroll, Steven A.
- ORCID
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 2016-01-27
- Volume
- 530
- Issue
- 7589
- Pages
- 177-183
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- PMC
- PMC4752392
- OpenAlex
- W2255138985
- Cited by
- 2,394
- References
- 56
- Citations by year
- 2026: 177 · 2025: 185 · 2024: 202 · 2023: 212 · 2022: 215 · 2021: 261 · 2020: 251 · 2019: 236 · 2018: 241 · 2017: 233 · 2016: 171
- FWCI
- 224.40
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Update notices
- correction (2021-12-15)
- Open access
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- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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- NOVA (University of Newcastle Australia) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute for Health and Care Research (PDA/02/06/016)
- Lundbeckfonden (R155-2014-1724)
- Medical Research Council (MR/P005748/1, MR/L010305/1)
- National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH042191, R01MH077139, U01MH105641, R01MH085548)
- National Human Genome Research Institute (R01HG006855, T32HG002295)
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences (T32GM007753)
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (T32AI074549)
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (U54HD090255)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Immunology › Complement system in diseases
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
- Keywords
- schizophrenia, complement C4, C4A, C4b, major histocompatibility complex, genetic association, synaptic pruning, classical complement pathway, brain gene expression, mouse model
- MeSH terms
- Alleles, Amino Acid Sequence, Animals, Axons, Base Sequence, Brain, Complement Pathway, Classical, Complement C4, Dendrites, Gene Expression Regulation, Haplotypes, Humans, Major Histocompatibility Complex, Neuronal Plasticity, Risk Factors, RNA, Messenger, Schizophrenia, Synapses, Genetic Variation, Gene Dosage, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Models, Animal, Mice
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