NRXN1 is associated with enlargement of the temporal horns of the lateral ventricles in psychosis.

ABSTRACT: Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective, and Bipolar disorders share behavioral and phenomenological traits, intermediate phenotypes, and some associated genetic loci with pleiotropic effects. Volumetric abnormalities in brain structures are among the intermediate phenotypes consistently reported associated with these disorders. In order to examine the genetic underpinnings of these structural brain modifications, we performed genome-wide association analyses (GWAS) on 60 quantitative structural brain MRI phenotypes in a sample of 777 subjects (483 cases and 294 controls pooled together). Genotyping was performed with the Illumina PsychChip microarray, followed by imputation to the 1000 genomes multiethnic reference panel. Enlargement of the Temporal Horns of Lateral Ventricles (THLV) is associated

SUBMITTER: Alliey-Rodriguez N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6748921 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature