Rare disruptive variants in the DISC1 Interactome and Regulome: association with cognitive ability and schizophrenia

Teng, S., Thomson, P. A., McCarthy, S., Kramer, M., Muller, S., Lihm, J., Morris, S., Soares, D. C., Hennah, W., Harris, S., Camargo, L. M., Malkov, V., McIntosh, A. M., Millar, J. K., Blackwood, D. H., Evans, K. L., Deary, I. J., Porteous, D. J., McCombie, W. R. (May 2018) Rare disruptive variants in the DISC1 Interactome and Regulome: association with cognitive ability and schizophrenia. Mol Psychiatry, 23 (5). pp. 1270-1277. ISSN 1359-4184

URL: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28630456
DOI: 10.1038/mp.2017.115

Abstract

Schizophrenia (SCZ), bipolar disorder (BD) and recurrent major depressive disorder (rMDD) are common psychiatric illnesses. All have been associated with lower cognitive ability, and show evidence of genetic overlap and substantial evidence of pleiotropy with cognitive function and neuroticism. Disrupted in schizophrenia 1 (DISC1) protein directly interacts with a large set of proteins (DISC1 Interactome) that are involved in brain development and signaling. Modulation of DISC1 expression alters the expression of a circumscribed set of genes (DISC1 Regulome) that are also implicated in brain biology and disorder. Here we report targeted sequencing of 59 DISC1 Interactome genes and 154 Regulome genes in 654 psychiatric patients and 889 cognitively-phenotyped control subjects, on whom we previously reported evidence for trait association from complete sequencing of the DISC1 locus. Burden analyses of rare and singleton variants predicted to be damaging were performed for psychiatric disorders, cognitive variables and personality traits. The DISC1 Interactome and Regulome showed differential association across the phenotypes tested. After family-wise error correction across all traits (FWERacross), an increased burden of singleton disruptive variants in the Regulome was associated with SCZ (FWERacross P=0.0339). The burden of singleton disruptive variants in the DISC1 Interactome was associated with low cognitive ability at age 11 (FWERacross P=0.0043). These results identify altered regulation of schizophrenia candidate genes by DISC1 and its core Interactome as an alternate pathway for schizophrenia risk, consistent with the emerging effects of rare copy number variants associated with intellectual disability.Molecular Psychiatry advance online publication, 20 June 2017; doi:10.1038/mp.2017.115.

Item Type: Paper
Subjects: diseases & disorders > mental disorders > schizophrenia
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > DNA, RNA structure, function, modification > genes, structure and function > genes: types > DISC1
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Communities: CSHL labs > McCombie lab
Depositing User: Matt Covey
Date: May 2018
Date Deposited: 30 Jun 2017 19:09
Last Modified: 09 Apr 2019 15:07
PMCID: PMC5984079
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URI: https://repository.cshl.edu/id/eprint/35033

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