Genome-wide Regional Heritability Mapping Identifies a Locus Within the TOX2 Gene Associated With Major Depressive Disorder

Yanni Zeng; Pau Navarro; Masoud Shirali; David M Howard; Mark J Adams; Lynsey S Hall; Toni-Kim Clarke; Pippa A Thomson; Blair H Smith; Alison Murray; Sandosh Padmanabhan; Caroline Hayward; Thibaud Boutin; Donald J MacIntyre; Cathryn M Lewis; Naomi R Wray; Divya Mehta; Brenda W J H Penninx; Yuri Milaneschi; Bernhard T Baune; Tracy Air; Jouke-Jan Hottenga; Hamdi Mbarek; Enrique Castelao; Giorgio Pistis; Thomas G Schulze; Fabian Streit; Andreas J Forstner; Enda M Byrne; Nicholas G Martin; Gerome Breen; Bertram Müller-Myhsok; Susanne Lucae; Stefan Kloiber; Enrico Domenici; Ian J Deary; David J Porteous; Chris S Haley; Andrew M McIntosh; Major Depressive Disorder Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium

doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2016.12.012

Genome-wide Regional Heritability Mapping Identifies a Locus Within the TOX2 Gene Associated With Major Depressive Disorder

Yanni Zeng, Pau Navarro, Masoud Shirali, David M Howard, Mark J Adams, Lynsey S Hall, Toni-Kim Clarke, Pippa A Thomson, Blair H Smith, Alison Murray, Sandosh Padmanabhan, Caroline Hayward, Thibaud Boutin, Donald J MacIntyre, Cathryn M Lewis, Naomi R Wray, Divya Mehta, Brenda W J H Penninx, Yuri Milaneschi, Bernhard T BauneTracy Air, Jouke-Jan Hottenga, Hamdi Mbarek, Enrique Castelao, Giorgio Pistis, Thomas G Schulze, Fabian Streit, Andreas J Forstner, Enda M Byrne, Nicholas G Martin, Gerome Breen, Bertram Müller-Myhsok, Susanne Lucae, Stefan Kloiber, Enrico Domenici, Ian J Deary, David J Porteous, Chris S Haley, Andrew M McIntosh, Major Depressive Disorder Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium

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BACKGROUND: Major depressive disorder (MDD) is the second largest cause of global disease burden. It has an estimated heritability of 37%, but published genome-wide association studies have so far identified few risk loci. Haplotype-block-based regional heritability mapping (HRHM) estimates the localized genetic variance explained by common variants within haplotype blocks, integrating the effects of multiple variants, and may be more powerful for identifying MDD-associated genomic regions.

METHODS: We applied HRHM to Generation Scotland: The Scottish Family Health Study, a large family- and population-based Scottish cohort (N = 19,896). Single-single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) and haplotype-based association tests were used to localize the association signal within the regions identified by HRHM. Functional prediction was used to investigate the effect of MDD-associated SNPs within the regions.

RESULTS: A haplotype block across a 24-kb region within the TOX2 gene reached genome-wide significance in HRHM. Single-SNP- and haplotype-based association tests demonstrated that five of nine genotyped SNPs and two haplotypes within this block were significantly associated with MDD. The expression of TOX2 and a brain-specific long noncoding RNA RP1-269M15.3 in frontal cortex and nucleus accumbens basal ganglia, respectively, were significantly regulated by MDD-associated SNPs within this region. Both the regional heritability and single-SNP associations within this block were replicated in the UK-Ireland group of the most recent release of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium (PGC), the PGC2-MDD (Major Depression Dataset). The SNP association was also replicated in a depressive symptom sample that shares some individuals with the PGC2-MDD.

CONCLUSIONS: This study highlights the value of HRHM for MDD and provides an important target within TOX2 for further functional studies.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	312-321
Number of pages	10
Journal	Biological Psychiatry
Volume	82
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2016.12.012
Publication status	Published - 1 Sept 2017

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Medical Research Council	MC_U127592696, MC_PC_U127592696, MR/K026992/1, MC_PC_U127561128, MC_qA137853
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council	BB/F019394/1, BBS/E/D/20211553, BB/J002844/1

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Zeng, Y., Navarro, P., Shirali, M., Howard, D. M., Adams, M. J., Hall, L. S., Clarke, T.-K., Thomson, P. A., Smith, B. H., Murray, A., Padmanabhan, S., Hayward, C., Boutin, T., MacIntyre, D. J., Lewis, C. M., Wray, N. R., Mehta, D., Penninx, B. W. J. H., Milaneschi, Y., ... Major Depressive Disorder Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium (2017). Genome-wide Regional Heritability Mapping Identifies a Locus Within the TOX2 Gene Associated With Major Depressive Disorder. Biological Psychiatry, 82(5), 312-321. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2016.12.012

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