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Comparative genetic architectures of schizophrenia in East Asian and European populations

  • Schizophrenia Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium
  • , Indonesia Schizophrenia Consortium
  • , Genetic REsearch on schizophreniA neTwork-China and the Netherlands (GREAT-CN)
  • Singapore Institute of Mental Health
  • Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore
  • Zucker Hillside Hospital
  • Massachusetts General Hospital
  • Broad Institute
  • Harvard University
  • Biogen IDEC
  • Qingdao University
  • Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  • Karolinska Institutet
  • CAS - Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health
  • King's College London
  • Fujita Health University
  • University of South Australia
  • University of Queensland
  • South Australian Health And Medical Research Institute
  • Columbia University
  • New York Genome Center
  • Peking University
  • The University of Tokyo
  • RIKEN
  • Chonnam National University
  • University of Indonesia
  • National Taiwan University
  • National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center
  • Utrecht University
  • The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University
  • SUNY Upstate Medical University
  • Shanghai Center for Women and Children’s Health
  • Jinan University
  • Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
  • University of Western Australia
  • Cardiff University
  • ShanghaiTech University
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Fudan University
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
  • University of Helsinki
  • Jining Medical College
  • The University of Hong Kong
  • Sungkyunkwan University
  • University of Wollongong
  • Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute
  • University of California at San Diego
  • National University of Singapore
  • Xinjiang Medical University

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Abstract

Schizophrenia is a debilitating psychiatric disorder with approximately 1% lifetime risk globally. Large-scale schizophrenia genetic studies have reported primarily on European ancestry samples, potentially missing important biological insights. Here, we report the largest study to date of East Asian participants (22,778 schizophrenia cases and 35,362 controls), identifying 21 genome-wide-significant associations in 19 genetic loci. Common genetic variants that confer risk for schizophrenia have highly similar effects between East Asian and European ancestries (genetic correlation = 0.98 ± 0.03), indicating that the genetic basis of schizophrenia and its biology are broadly shared across populations. A fixed-effect meta-analysis including individuals from East Asian and European ancestries identified 208 significant associations in 176 genetic loci (53 novel). Trans-ancestry fine-mapping reduced the sets of candidate causal variants in 44 loci. Polygenic risk scores had reduced performance when transferred across ancestries, highlighting the importance of including sufficient samples of major ancestral groups to ensure their generalizability across populations.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1670-1678
Number of pages9
JournalNature Genetics
Volume51
Issue number12
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Dec 2019
Externally publishedYes

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