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Specific Glial Functions Contribute to Schizophrenia Susceptibility

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Goudriaan, A., de Leeuw, C., Ripke, S., Hultman, C. M., Sklar, P., Sullivan, P. F., Smit, A. B., Posthuma, D. +1 more·2014·Schizophrenia Bulletin

Abstract

Schizophrenia is a highly polygenic brain disorder. The main hypothesis for disease etiology in schizophrenia primarily focuses on the role of dysfunctional synaptic transmission. Previous studies have therefore directed their investigations toward the role of neuronal dysfunction. However, recent studies have shown that apart from neurons, glial cells also play a major role in synaptic transmission. Therefore, we investigated the potential causal involvement of the 3 principle glial cell lineages in risk to schizophrenia. We performed a functional gene set analysis to test for the combined effects of genetic variants in glial type-specific genes for association with schizophrenia. We used genome-wide association data from the largest schizophrenia sample to date, including 13 689 cases and 18 226 healthy controls. Our results show that astrocyte and oligodendrocyte gene sets, but not microglia gene sets, are associated with an increased risk for schizophrenia. The astrocyte and oligodendrocyte findings are related to astrocyte signaling at the synapse, myelin membrane integrity, glial development, and epigenetic control. Together, these results show that genetic alterations underlying specific glial cell type functions increase susceptibility to schizophrenia and provide evidence that the neuronal hypothesis of schizophrenia should be extended to include the role of glia.

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Goudriaan, A., de Leeuw, C., Ripke, S., Hultman, C. M., Sklar, P., Sullivan, P. F., Smit, A. B., Posthuma, D., & Verheijen, M. H. G.
Affiliations
  • Amsterdam Neuroscience (NL)
  • Broad Institute (US)
  • Karolinska Institutet (SE)
  • Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (US)
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
Venue
Schizophrenia Bulletin
Published
2013-08-16
Volume
40
Issue
4
Pages
925-935
ISSN
  • 0586-7614 (ISSN-L)
  • 1745-1701
OpenAlex
W2102430481
Cited by
114
References
73
Citations by year
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FWCI
9.68
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Locations
  • Schizophrenia Bulletin (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Pure Amsterdam UMC (publishedVersion)
  • Amsterdam UMC (VU Amsterdam) - Institutional Repository (publishedVersion)
  • Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) (submittedVersion)
  • VU Research Portal (submittedVersion)
  • Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion)
  • UNC Libraries
Funders
  • European Commission (242167)
  • Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen
  • Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO 480‐05‐003, 480- 05-003, 645-000-003)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
Keywords
schizophrenia, glial cells
MeSH terms
Astrocytes, Humans, Neuroglia, Oligodendroglia, Schizophrenia, Case-Control Studies, Microglia, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study

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