Polygenic risk of social isolation behavior and its influence on psychopathology and personality.


Journal

Molecular psychiatry
ISSN: 1476-5578
Titre abrégé: Mol Psychiatry
Pays: England
ID NLM: 9607835

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
30 May 2024
Historique:
received: 22 02 2023
accepted: 16 05 2024
revised: 02 05 2024
medline: 30 5 2024
pubmed: 30 5 2024
entrez: 29 5 2024
Statut: aheadofprint

Résumé

Social isolation has been linked to a range of psychiatric issues, but the behavioral component that drives it is not well understood. Here, a genome-wide associations study (GWAS) was carried out to identify genetic variants that contribute specifically to social isolation behavior (SIB) in up to 449,609 participants from the UK Biobank. 17 loci were identified at genome-wide significance, contributing to a 4% SNP-based heritability estimate. Using the SIB GWAS, polygenic risk scores (PRS) were derived in ALSPAC, an independent, developmental cohort, and used to test for association with self-reported friendship scores, comprising items related to friendship quality and quantity, at age 12 and 18 to determine whether genetic predisposition manifests during childhood development. At age 18, friendship scores were associated with the SIB PRS, demonstrating that the genetic factors can predict related social traits in late adolescence. Linkage disequilibrium (LD) score correlation using the SIB GWAS demonstrated genetic correlations with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), schizophrenia, major depressive disorder (MDD), educational attainment, extraversion, and loneliness. However, no evidence of causality was found using a conservative Mendelian randomization approach between SIB and any of the traits in either direction. Genomic Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) revealed a common factor contributing to SIB, neuroticism, loneliness, MDD, and ASD, weakly correlated with a second common factor that contributes to psychiatric and psychotic traits. Our results show that SIB contributes a small heritable component, which is associated genetically with other social traits such as friendship as well as psychiatric disorders.

Identifiants

pubmed: 38811692
doi: 10.1038/s41380-024-02617-2
pii: 10.1038/s41380-024-02617-2
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Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

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Subventions

Organisme : Wellcome Trust (Wellcome)
ID : 217065/Z/19/Z)
Organisme : NIMH NIH HHS
ID : R01 MH128971
Pays : United States
Organisme : NIMH NIH HHS
ID : R01 MH119219
Pays : United States
Organisme : U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
ID : R01MH128971

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Auteurs

Adam J Socrates (AJ)

Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, One Gustave L. Levy Pl., New York, NY, 10029, USA. adam.socrates@mssm.edu.

Niamh Mullins (N)

Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, One Gustave L. Levy Pl., New York, NY, 10029, USA.
Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, One Gustave L. Levy Pl., New York, NY, 10029, USA.
Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, One Gustave L. Levy Pl., New York, NY, 10029, USA.

Ruben C Gur (RC)

Department of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine and the Lifespan Brain Institute, Penn Medicine and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA.

Raquel E Gur (RE)

Department of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine and the Lifespan Brain Institute, Penn Medicine and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA.

Eli Stahl (E)

Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, One Gustave L. Levy Pl., New York, NY, 10029, USA.
Regeneron Genetics Centre, Tarrytown, NY, USA.

Paul F O'Reilly (PF)

Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, One Gustave L. Levy Pl., New York, NY, 10029, USA.

Abraham Reichenberg (A)

Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, One Gustave L. Levy Pl., New York, NY, 10029, USA.

Hannah Jones (H)

MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 2PR, UK.
Department of Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 2PR, UK.

Stanley Zammit (S)

Department of Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 2PR, UK.
Centre for Academic Mental Health, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 2PR, UK.
Division of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF24 4HQ, UK.

Eva Velthorst (E)

Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, One Gustave L. Levy Pl., New York, NY, 10029, USA.
Department of Research, Mental Health Organization "GGZ Noord-Holland-Noord,", Heerhugowaard, The Netherlands.

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