Rare Copy Number Variants A Point of Rarity in Genetic Risk for Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia

D. Grozeva, G. Kirov, D. Ivanov, I. R. Jones, L. Jones, E. K. Green, D. M. St Clair, Allan. H Young, N. Ferrier, A. E. Farmer, P. McGuffin, P. A. Holmans, M. J. Owen, M. C. O'Donovan, N. Craddock, Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium

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Abstract

Context: Recent studies suggest that control sample using a high-density microarray.

Setting: The Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium.

Participants: There were 1697 cases of bipolar disorder and 2806 nonpsychiatric controls. All participants were white UK residents.

Main Outcome Measures: Overall load of CNVs and presence of rare CNVs.

Results: The burden of CNVs in bipolar disorder was not increased compared with controls and was significantly less than in schizophrenia cases. The CNVs previously implicated in the etiology of schizophrenia were not more common in cases with bipolar disorder.

Conclusions: Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder differ with respect to CNV burden in general and association with specific CNVs in particular. Our data are consistent with the possibility that possession of large, rare deletions may modify the phenotype in those at risk of psychosis: those possessing such events are more likely to be diagnosed as having schizophrenia, and those without them are more likely to be diagnosed as having bipolar disorder.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)318-327
Number of pages10
JournalJAMA Psychiatry
Volume67
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Apr 2010

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