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Genome-Wide Association Study of Suicide Death and Polygenic Prediction of Clinical Antecedents

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Docherty, Anna R., Shabalin, Andrey A., DiBlasi, Emily, Monson, Eric, Mullins, Niamh, Adkins, Daniel E., Bacanu, Silviu-Alin, Bakian, Amanda V. +15 more·2020·American Journal of Psychiatry

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OBJECTIVE: Death by suicide is a highly preventable yet growing worldwide health crisis. To date, there has been a lack of adequately powered genomic studies of suicide, with no sizable suicide death cohorts available for analysis. To address this limitation, the authors conducted the first comprehensive genomic analysis of suicide death using previously unpublished genotype data from a large population-ascertained cohort. METHODS: The analysis sample comprised 3,413 population-ascertained case subjects of European ancestry and 14,810 ancestrally matched control subjects. Analytical methods included principal component analysis for ancestral matching and adjusting for population stratification, linear mixed model genome-wide association testing (conditional on genetic-relatedness matrix), gene and gene set-enrichment testing, and polygenic score analyses, as well as single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) heritability and genetic correlation estimation using linkage disequilibrium score regression. RESULTS: value of 0.25 (SE=0.04) and a value of 0.16 (SE=0.02) when converted to a liability scale. Notably, suicide polygenic scores were significantly predictive across training and test sets. Polygenic scores for several other psychiatric disorders and psychological traits were also predictive, particularly scores for behavioral disinhibition and major depressive disorder. CONCLUSIONS: Multiple genome-wide significant loci and genes were identified and polygenic score prediction of suicide death case-control status was demonstrated, adjusting for ancestry, in independent training and test sets. Additionally, the suicide death sample was found to have increased genetic risk for behavioral disinhibition, major depressive disorder, depressive symptoms, autism spectrum disorder, psychosis, and alcohol use disorder compared with the control sample.

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Docherty, A. R., Shabalin, A. A., DiBlasi, E., Monson, E., Mullins, N., Adkins, D. E., Bacanu, S.-A., Bakian, A. V., Crowell, S., Chen, D., Darlington, T. M., Callor, W. B., Christensen, E. D., Gray, D., Keeshin, B., Klein, M., Anderson, J. S., Jerominski, L., Hayward, C., Porteous, D. J., McIntosh, A., Li, Q., & Coon, H.
Affiliations
Virginia Commonwealth University (US)
Corresponding author
Docherty, Anna R.
Venue
American Journal of Psychiatry
Published
2020-10-01
Volume
177
Issue
10
Pages
917-927
ISSN
  • 0002-953X (ISSN-L)
  • 1535-7228
OpenAlex
W3090112529
Cited by
124
References
58
Citations by year
2026: 14 · 2025: 21 · 2024: 20 · 2023: 17 · 2022: 22 · 2021: 26 · 2020: 4
FWCI
10.10
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • American Journal of Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • Edinburgh Research Explorer (University of Edinburgh) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
Funders
  • American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
  • National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression
  • Wellcome Trust (104036/Z/14/Z)
  • Huntsman Cancer Institute
  • Scottish Government (CZD/16/6)
  • Scottish Funding Council (HR03006)
  • National Institutes of Health (UL1TR002538)
  • Chief Scientist Office, Scottish Government Health and Social Care Directorate (CZD/16/6)
  • Medical Research Council (104036/Z/14/Z, MC_UU_00007/10)
  • National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH123619, K01MH093731, K01MH109765, R01MH099134, R01MH122412, R01MH123489)
  • National Cancer Institute (P30CA042014)
  • National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
Keywords
suicide mortality, genome-wide association study, polygenic risk score, genetic risk factors, behavioral disinhibition, major depressive disorder, autism spectrum disorder, psychosis, alcoholism, mental illness, genetic correlation, suicide prevention
MeSH terms
Suicide, Completed, Adult, Female, Humans, Male, Scotland, Sex Factors, Utah, Linkage Disequilibrium, Genome, Human, Case-Control Studies, Multifactorial Inheritance, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Principal Component Analysis, Genome-Wide Association Study, Young Adult, Genotyping Techniques

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