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Dissecting the Shared Genetic Architecture of Suicide Attempt, Psychiatric Disorders, and Known Risk Factors.

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Mullins, N; Kang, J; Campos, AI; Coleman, JRI; Edwards, AC; Galfalvy, H; Levey, DF; Lori, A; Shabalin, A; Starnawska, A; Su, M-H; Watson, HJ ...
Published in: Biol Psychiatry
February 1, 2022

BACKGROUND: Suicide is a leading cause of death worldwide, and nonfatal suicide attempts, which occur far more frequently, are a major source of disability and social and economic burden. Both have substantial genetic etiology, which is partially shared and partially distinct from that of related psychiatric disorders. METHODS: We conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of 29,782 suicide attempt (SA) cases and 519,961 controls in the International Suicide Genetics Consortium (ISGC). The GWAS of SA was conditioned on psychiatric disorders using GWAS summary statistics via multitrait-based conditional and joint analysis, to remove genetic effects on SA mediated by psychiatric disorders. We investigated the shared and divergent genetic architectures of SA, psychiatric disorders, and other known risk factors. RESULTS: Two loci reached genome-wide significance for SA: the major histocompatibility complex and an intergenic locus on chromosome 7, the latter of which remained associated with SA after conditioning on psychiatric disorders and replicated in an independent cohort from the Million Veteran Program. This locus has been implicated in risk-taking behavior, smoking, and insomnia. SA showed strong genetic correlation with psychiatric disorders, particularly major depression, and also with smoking, pain, risk-taking behavior, sleep disturbances, lower educational attainment, reproductive traits, lower socioeconomic status, and poorer general health. After conditioning on psychiatric disorders, the genetic correlations between SA and psychiatric disorders decreased, whereas those with nonpsychiatric traits remained largely unchanged. CONCLUSIONS: Our results identify a risk locus that contributes more strongly to SA than other phenotypes and suggest a shared underlying biology between SA and known risk factors that is not mediated by psychiatric disorders.

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Biol Psychiatry

DOI

EISSN

1873-2402

Publication Date

February 1, 2022

Volume

91

Issue

3

Start / End Page

313 / 327

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Suicide, Attempted
  • Risk Factors
  • Psychiatry
  • Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
  • Mental Disorders
  • Humans
  • Genome-Wide Association Study
  • Depressive Disorder, Major
  • 52 Psychology
  • 32 Biomedical and clinical sciences
 

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Mullins, N., Kang, J., Campos, A. I., Coleman, J. R. I., Edwards, A. C., Galfalvy, H., … Ruderfer, D. M. (2022). Dissecting the Shared Genetic Architecture of Suicide Attempt, Psychiatric Disorders, and Known Risk Factors. Biol Psychiatry, 91(3), 313–327. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2021.05.029
Mullins, Niamh, JooEun Kang, Adrian I. Campos, Jonathan R. I. Coleman, Alexis C. Edwards, Hanga Galfalvy, Daniel F. Levey, et al. “Dissecting the Shared Genetic Architecture of Suicide Attempt, Psychiatric Disorders, and Known Risk Factors.Biol Psychiatry 91, no. 3 (February 1, 2022): 313–27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2021.05.029.
Mullins N, Kang J, Campos AI, Coleman JRI, Edwards AC, Galfalvy H, et al. Dissecting the Shared Genetic Architecture of Suicide Attempt, Psychiatric Disorders, and Known Risk Factors. Biol Psychiatry. 2022 Feb 1;91(3):313–27.
Mullins, Niamh, et al. “Dissecting the Shared Genetic Architecture of Suicide Attempt, Psychiatric Disorders, and Known Risk Factors.Biol Psychiatry, vol. 91, no. 3, Feb. 2022, pp. 313–27. Pubmed, doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2021.05.029.
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Published In

Biol Psychiatry

DOI

EISSN

1873-2402

Publication Date

February 1, 2022

Volume

91

Issue

3

Start / End Page

313 / 327

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Suicide, Attempted
  • Risk Factors
  • Psychiatry
  • Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
  • Mental Disorders
  • Humans
  • Genome-Wide Association Study
  • Depressive Disorder, Major
  • 52 Psychology
  • 32 Biomedical and clinical sciences