scholarly journals Sex-Dependent Shared and Non-Shared Genetic Architecture, Across Mood and Psychotic Disorders

Author(s):  
Gabriëlla A.M. Blokland ◽  
Jakob Grove ◽  
Chia-Yen Chen ◽  
Chris Cotsapas ◽  
Stuart Tobet ◽  
...  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula Rovira ◽  
Ditte Demontis ◽  
Cristina Sánchez-Mora ◽  
Tetyana Zayats ◽  
Marieke Klein ◽  
...  

AbstractAttention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a common neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by age-inappropriate symptoms of inattention, impulsivity and hyperactivity that persist into adulthood in the majority of the diagnosed children. Despite several risk factors during childhood predicting the persistence of ADHD symptoms into adulthood, the genetic architecture underlying the trajectory of ADHD over time is still unclear. We set out to study the contribution of common genetic variants to the risk for ADHD across the lifespan by conducting meta-analyses of genome-wide association studies on persistent ADHD in adults and ADHD in childhood separately and comparing the genetic background between them in a total sample of 17,149 cases and 32,411 controls. Our results show nine new independent loci and support a shared contribution of common genetic variants to ADHD in children and adults. No subgroup heterogeneity was observed among children, while this group consists of future remitting and persistent individuals. We report similar patterns of genetic correlation of ADHD with other ADHD-related datasets and different traits and disorders among adults, children and when combining both groups. These findings confirm that persistent ADHD in adults is a neurodevelopmental disorder and extend the existing hypothesis of a shared genetic architecture underlying ADHD and different traits to a lifespan perspective.


PLoS Genetics ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (12) ◽  
pp. e1008517 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felix Day ◽  
Tugce Karaderi ◽  
Michelle R. Jones ◽  
Cindy Meun ◽  
Chunyan He ◽  
...  

PLoS Genetics ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (12) ◽  
pp. e1007813 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felix Day ◽  
Tugce Karaderi ◽  
Michelle R. Jones ◽  
Cindy Meun ◽  
Chunyan He ◽  
...  

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 20180186
Author(s):  
Jo S. Hermansen ◽  
Jostein Starrfelt ◽  
Kjetil L. Voje ◽  
Nils C. Stenseth

Intralocus sexual conflicts arise whenever the fitness optima for a trait expressed in both males and females differ between the sexes and shared genetic architecture constrains the sexes from evolving independently towards their respective optima. Such sexual conflicts are commonplace in nature, yet their long-term evolutionary consequences remain unexplored. Using a Bayesian phylogenetic comparative framework, we studied the macroevolutionary dynamics of intersexual trait integration in stalk-eyed flies (Diopsidae) spanning a time frame of more than 25 Myr. We report that increased intensity of sexual selection on male eyestalks is associated with reduced intersexual eyestalk integration, as well as sex-specific rates of eyestalk evolution. Despite this, lineages where males have been under strong sexual selection for millions of years still exhibit high levels of intersexual trait integration. This low level of decoupling between the sexes may indicate that exaggerated female eyestalks are in fact adaptive—or alternatively, that there are strong constraints on reducing trait integration between the sexes. Future work should seek to clarify the relative roles of constraints and selection in contributing to the varying levels of intersexual trait integration in stalk-eyed flies, and in this way clarify whether sexual conflicts can act as constraints on adaptive evolution even on macroevolutionary time scales.


2010 ◽  
Vol 33 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 155-157
Author(s):  
Oliver S. P. Davis ◽  
Robert Plomin

AbstractPsychological traits and disorders are often interrelated through shared genetic influences. A combination of maximum-likelihood structural equation modelling and multidimensional scaling enables us to open a window onto the genetic architecture at the symptom level, rather than at the level of latent genetic factors. We illustrate this approach using a study of cognitive abilities involving over 5,000 pairs of twins.


2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (234) ◽  
pp. 234ra57-234ra57 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Li ◽  
D. J. Ruau ◽  
C. J. Patel ◽  
S. C. Weber ◽  
R. Chen ◽  
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