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Investigation of common, low-frequency and rare genome-wide variation in anorexia nervosa

  • L M Huckins
  • , K Hatzikotoulas
  • , L Southam
  • , L M Thornton
  • , J Steinberg
  • , F Aguilera-McKay
  • , J Treasure
  • , U Schmidt
  • , C Gunasinghe
  • , A Romero
  • , C Curtis
  • , D Rhodes
  • , J Moens
  • , G Kalsi
  • , D Dempster
  • , R Leung
  • , A Keohane
  • , R Burghardt
  • , S Ehrlich
  • , J Hebebrand
  • A Hinney, A Ludolph, E Walton, P Deloukas, A Hofman, A Palotie, P Palta, F J A van Rooij, K Stirrups, R Adan, C Boni, R Cone, G Dedoussis, E van Furth, F Gonidakis, P Gorwood, J Hudson, J Kaprio, M Kas, A Keski-Rahonen, K Kiezebrink, G-P Knudsen, M C T Slof-Op 't Landt, M Maj, A M Monteleone, P Monteleone, A H Raevuori, T Reichborn-Kjennerud, F Tozzi, G Breen, Eating Disorder Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium
  • Section of Eating Disorders, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.
  • Klinik für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie, Psychotherapie und Psychosomatik Klinikum Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany.
  • TU Dresden
  • Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics, University Hospital Essen and University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany.
  • Helmholtz Zentrum München, Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Gesundheit und Umwelt, Neuherberg, Germany.
  • Division of Psychological &Social Medicine and Developmental Neurosciences, Technische Universität Dresden, Faculty of Medicine, University Hospital C.G. Carus, Dresden, Germany.
  • Erasmus University Medical Center
  • Massachusetts General Hospital
  • University of Helsinki
  • UMC University Medical Center Utrecht
  • INSERM U984, Centre of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Paris, France.
  • Mary Sue Coleman Director, Life Sciences Institute, Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
  • Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Harokopio University, Athens, Greece.
  • Rivierduinen Eating Disorders Ursula, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands.
  • Eating Disorders Unit, 1st Department of Psychiatry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Medical School, Athens, Greece.
  • Harvard Medical School
  • University of Groningen
  • University of Aberdeen
  • Norwegian Institute of Public Health
  • University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli
  • University of Salerno
  • University of Cyprus
  • King's College London
  • Wellcome Sanger Institute
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Abstract

Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a complex neuropsychiatric disorder presenting with dangerously low body weight, and a deep and persistent fear of gaining weight. To date, only one genome-wide significant locus associated with AN has been identified. We performed an exome-chip based genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in 2158 cases from nine populations of European origin and 15 485 ancestrally matched controls. Unlike previous studies, this GWAS also probed association in low-frequency and rare variants. Sixteen independent variants were taken forward for in silico and de novo replication (11 common and 5 rare). No findings reached genome-wide significance. Two notable common variants were identified: rs10791286, an intronic variant in OPCML (P=9.89 × 10-6), and rs7700147, an intergenic variant (P=2.93 × 10-5). No low-frequency variant associations were identified at genome-wide significance, although the study was well-powered to detect low-frequency variants with large effect sizes, suggesting that there may be no AN loci in this genomic search space with large effect sizes.Molecular Psychiatry advance online publication, 25 July 2017; doi:10.1038/mp.2017.88.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1169–1180
JournalMolecular Psychiatry
Volume23
Issue number5
Early online date25 Jul 2017
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018

Keywords

  • Journal Article

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