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Mol Psychiatry. 2017 Mar;22(3):336-345. doi: 10.1038/mp.2016.244. Epub 2017 Jan 17.

GWAS meta-analysis reveals novel loci and genetic correlates for general cognitive function: a report from the COGENT consortium.

Molecular psychiatry

J W Trampush, M L Z Yang, J Yu, E Knowles, G Davies, D C Liewald, J M Starr, S Djurovic, I Melle, K Sundet, A Christoforou, I Reinvang, P DeRosse, A J Lundervold, V M Steen, T Espeseth, K Räikkönen, E Widen, A Palotie, J G Eriksson, I Giegling, B Konte, P Roussos, S Giakoumaki, K E Burdick, A Payton, W Ollier, M Horan, O Chiba-Falek, D K Attix, A C Need, E T Cirulli, A N Voineskos, N C Stefanis, D Avramopoulos, A Hatzimanolis, D E Arking, N Smyrnis, R M Bilder, N A Freimer, T D Cannon, E London, R A Poldrack, F W Sabb, E Congdon, E D Conley, M A Scult, D Dickinson, R E Straub, G Donohoe, D Morris, A Corvin, M Gill, A R Hariri, D R Weinberger, N Pendleton, P Bitsios, D Rujescu, J Lahti, S Le Hellard, M C Keller, O A Andreassen, I J Deary, D C Glahn, A K Malhotra, T Lencz

Affiliations

  1. Division of Psychiatry Research, Zucker Hillside Hospital, Glen Oaks, NY, USA.
  2. Institute of Mental Health, Singapore, Singapore.
  3. Center for Psychiatric Neuroscience, Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Manhasset, NY, USA.
  4. Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
  5. Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
  6. Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
  7. Alzheimer Scotland Dementia Research Centre, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
  8. Department of Medical Genetics, Oslo University Hospital, University of Bergen, Oslo, Norway.
  9. NORMENT, K.G. Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
  10. Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway.
  11. Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
  12. Dr Einar Martens Research Group for Biological Psychiatry, Center for Medical Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway.
  13. Department of Biological and Medical Psychology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
  14. Institute of Behavioural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
  15. Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
  16. Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridge, UK.
  17. Department of Medical Genetics, University of Helsinki and University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland.
  18. National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland.
  19. Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
  20. Helsinki University Central Hospital, Unit of General Practice, Helsinki, Finland.
  21. Folkhälsan Research Centre, Helsinki, Finland.
  22. Department of Psychiatry, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany.
  23. Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
  24. Department of Genetics and Genomic Science and Institute for Multiscale Biology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
  25. Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (VISN 3), James J. Peters VA Medical Center, Bronx, NY, USA.
  26. Department of Psychology, University of Crete, Rethymno, Greece.
  27. Manchester Centre for Audiology and Deafness, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
  28. Division of Evolution and Genomic Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
  29. Centre for Integrated Genomic Medical Research, Institute of Population Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
  30. Manchester Medical School, Institute of Brain, Behaviour, and Mental Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
  31. Department of Neurology, Bryan Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, and Center for Genomic and Computational Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.
  32. Division of Medical Psychology, Department of Neurology, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.
  33. Division of Brain Sciences, Department of Medicine, Imperial College, London, UK.
  34. Center for Applied Genomics and Precision Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA.
  35. Campbell Family Mental Health Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
  36. Department of Psychiatry, University of Athens School of Medicine, Eginition Hospital, Athens, Greece.
  37. University Mental Health Research Institute, Athens, Greece.
  38. Neurobiology Research Institute, Theodor Theohari Cozzika Foundation, Athens, Greece.
  39. Department of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
  40. Department of Psychiatry and McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
  41. UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
  42. Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
  43. Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA.
  44. Robert and Beverly Lewis Center for Neuroimaging, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA.
  45. 23andMe, Inc., Mountain View, CA, USA.
  46. Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, Laboratory of NeuroGenetics, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
  47. Clinical and Translational Neuroscience Branch, Intramural Research Program, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
  48. Lieber Institute for Brain Development, Johns Hopkins University Medical Campus, Baltimore, MD, USA.
  49. Department of Psychology, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland.
  50. Department of Psychiatry, Neuropsychiatric Genetics Research Group, Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
  51. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece.
  52. Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
  53. Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA.
  54. Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
  55. Department of Psychiatry, Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine, Hempstead, NY, USA.

PMID: 28093568 PMCID: PMC5322272 DOI: 10.1038/mp.2016.244

Abstract

The complex nature of human cognition has resulted in cognitive genomics lagging behind many other fields in terms of gene discovery using genome-wide association study (GWAS) methods. In an attempt to overcome these barriers, the current study utilized GWAS meta-analysis to examine the association of common genetic variation (~8M single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) with minor allele frequency ⩾1%) to general cognitive function in a sample of 35 298 healthy individuals of European ancestry across 24 cohorts in the Cognitive Genomics Consortium (COGENT). In addition, we utilized individual SNP lookups and polygenic score analyses to identify genetic overlap with other relevant neurobehavioral phenotypes. Our primary GWAS meta-analysis identified two novel SNP loci (top SNPs: rs76114856 in the CENPO gene on chromosome 2 and rs6669072 near LOC105378853 on chromosome 1) associated with cognitive performance at the genome-wide significance level (P<5 × 10

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