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Enhancing Discovery of Genetic Variants for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Through Integration of Quantitative Phenotypes and Trauma Exposure Information
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Maihofer, Adam X; Choi, Karmel W; Coleman, Jonathan RI; Daskalakis, Nikolaos P; Denckla, Christy A; Ketema, Elizabeth; Morey, Rajendra A; Polimanti, Renato; Ratanatharathorn, Andrew; Torres, Katy; Wingo, Aliza P; Zai, Clement C; Aiello, Allison E; Almli, Lynn M; Amstadter, Ananda B; Andersen, Soren B; Andreassen, Ole A; Arbisi, Paul A; Ashley-Koch, Allison E; Austin, S Bryn; Avdibegović, Esmina; Borglum, Anders D; Babić, Dragan; Bækvad-Hansen, Marie; Baker, Dewleen G; Beckham, Jean C; Bierut, Laura J; Bisson, Jonathan I; Boks, Marco P; Bolger, Elizabeth A; Bradley, Bekh; Brashear, Meghan; Breen, Gerome; Bryant, Richard A; Bustamante, Angela C; Bybjerg-Grauholm, Jonas; Calabrese, Joseph R; Caldas-de-Almeida, José M; Chen, Chia-Yen; Dale, Anders M; Dalvie, Shareefa; Deckert, Jürgen; Delahanty, Douglas L; Dennis, Michelle F; Disner, Seth G; Domschke, Katharina; Duncan, Laramie E; Džubur Kulenović, Alma; Erbes, Christopher R; Evans, Alexandra; Farrer, Lindsay A; Feeny, Norah C; Flory, Janine D; Forbes, David; Franz, Carol E; Galea, Sandro; Garrett, Melanie E; Gautam, Aarti; Gelaye, Bizu; Gelernter, Joel; Geuze, Elbert; Gillespie, Charles F; Goçi, Aferdita; Gordon, Scott D; Guffanti, Guia; Hammamieh, Rasha; Hauser, Michael A; Heath, Andrew C; Hemmings, Sian MJ; Hougaard, David Michael; Jakovljević, Miro; Jett, Marti; Johnson, Eric Otto; Jones, Ian; Jovanovic, Tanja; Qin, Xue-Jun; Karstoft, Karen-Inge; Kaufman, Milissa L; Kessler, Ronald C; Khan, Alaptagin; Kimbrel, Nathan A; King, Anthony P; Koen, Nastassja; Kranzler, Henry R; Kremen, William S; Lawford, Bruce R; Lebois, Lauren AM; Lewis, Catrin; Liberzon, Israel; Linnstaedt, Sarah D; Logue, Mark W; Lori, Adriana; Lugonja, Božo; Luykx, Jurjen J; Lyons, Michael J; Maples-Keller, Jessica L; Marmar, Charles; Martin, Nicholas G; Maurer, Douglas; Mavissakalian, Matig R
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Biological Psychiatry. 91(7)
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BackgroundPosttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is heritable and a potential consequence of exposure to traumatic stress. Evidence suggests that a quantitative approach to PTSD phenotype measurement and incorporation of lifetime trauma exposure (LTE) information could enhance the discovery power of PTSD genome-wide association studies (GWASs).MethodsA GWAS on PTSD symptoms was performed in 51 cohorts followed by a fixed-effects meta-analysis (N = 182,199 European ancestry participants). A GWAS of LTE burden was performed in the UK Biobank cohort (N = 132,988). Genetic correlations were evaluated with linkage disequilibrium score regression. Multivariate analysis was performed using Multi-Trait Analysis of GWAS. Functional mapping and annotation of leading loci was performed with FUMA. Replication was evaluated using the Million Veteran Program GWAS of PTSD total symptoms.ResultsGWASs of PTSD symptoms and LTE burden identified 5 and 6 independent genome-wide significant loci, respectively. There was a 72% genetic correlation between PTSD and LTE. PTSD and LTE showed largely similar patterns of genetic correlation with other traits, albeit with some distinctions. Adjusting PTSD for LTE reduced PTSD heritability by 31%. Multivariate analysis of PTSD and LTE increased the effective sample size of the PTSD GWAS by 20% and identified 4 additional loci. Four of these 9 PTSD loci were independently replicated in the Million Veteran Program.ConclusionsThrough using a quantitative trait measure of PTSD, we identified novel risk loci not previously identified using prior case-control analyses. PTSD and LTE have a high genetic overlap that can be leveraged to increase discovery power through multivariate methods.