Genetic Overlap Between Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Bipolar Disorder: Evidence From Genome-wide Association Study Meta-analysis

PGC ADHD Working Group, PGC Bipolar Disorder Working Group, Kimm J.E. van Hulzen, Claus J. Scholz, Barbara Franke, Stephan Ripke, Marieke Klein, Andrew McQuillin, Edmund J.S. Sonuga-Barke, John R. Kelsoe, Mikael Landén, Ole A. Andreassen, Klaus Peter Lesch, Heike Weber, Stephen V. Faraone, Alejandro Arias-Vasquez, Andreas Reif, Richard J.L. Anney, Alejandro Arias Vasquez, Maria J. ArranzPhilip Asherson, Tobias J. Banaschewski, Mònica Bayés, Joseph Biederman, Jan K. Buitelaar, Miguel Casas, Alice Charach, Bru Cormand, Jennifer Crosbie, Søren Dalsgaard, Mark J. Daly, Alysa E. Doyle, Richard P. Ebstein, Josephine Elia, Christine Freitag, Michael Gill, Hakon Hakonarson, Amaia Hervas, Peter Holmans, Lindsey Kent, Jonna Kuntsi, Nanda Lambregts-Rommelse, Kate Langley, Sandra K. Loo, Joanna Martin, James J. McGough, Sarah E. Medland, Jobst Meyer, Eric Mick, Ana Miranda, Fernando Mulas, Benjamin M. Neale, Stan F. Nelson, Michael C. O’Donovan, Robert D. Oades, Michael J. Owen, Haukur Palmason, Josep A. Ramos-Quiroga, Marta Ribasés, Herbert Roeyers, Jasmin Romanos, Marcel Romanos, Aribert Rothenberger, Cristina Sánchez-Mora, Russell Schachar, Joseph Sergeant, Susan L. Smalley, Hans Christoph Steinhausen, Anita Thapar, Alexandre Todorov, Susanne Walitza, Yufeng Wang, Andreas Warnke, Nigel Williams, Yanli Zhang-James, Devin Absher, Huda Akil, Adebayo Anjorin, Lena Backlund, Judith A. Badner, Jack D. Barchas, Thomas B. Barrett, Nick Bass, Michael Bauer, Frank Bellivier, Sarah E. Bergen, Wade Berrettini, Douglas Blackwood, Cinnamon S. Bloss, Michael Boehnke, Gerome Breen, René Breuer, William E. Bunney, Margit Burmeister, William Byerley, Sian Caesar, Kim Chambert, Sven Cichon, David A. Collier, Aiden Corvin, William Coryell, Nick Craddock, David W. Craig, Mark Daly, Richard Day, Franziska Degenhardt, Srdjan Djurovic, Frank Dudbridge, Howard J. Edenberg, Amanda Elkin, Bruno Etain, Anne Farmer, Manuel Ferreira, I. Nicol Ferrier, Matthew Flickinger, Tatiana Foroud, Josef Frank, Christine Fraser, Louise Frisén, Janice Fullerton, Elliot S. Gershon, Katherine Gordon-Smith, Elaine K. Green, Tiffany A. Greenwood, Detelina Grozeva, Weihua Guan, Hugh Gurling, Ómar Gustafsson, Marian L. Hamshere, Martin Hautzinger, Chantal Henry, Stefan Herms, Maria M. Hipolito, Christina Hultman, Stéphane Jamain, Edward G. Jones, Ian R. Jones, Lisa Jones, Jean Pierre Kahn, Radhika Kandaswamy, James L. Kennedy, George Kirov, Daniel L. Koller, Phoenix Kwan, Niklas Langstrom, Mark Lathrop, Jacob Lawrence, William B. Lawson, Marion Leboyer, Phil H. Lee, Jun Li, Paul Lichtenstein, Danyu Lin, Chunyu Liu, Falk W. Lohoff, Susanne Lucae, Pamela B. Mahon, Sandra Maier, Wolfgang Maier, Nick Martin, Manuel Mattheisen, Keith Matthews, Morten Mattingsdal, Kevin McGhee, Peter McGuffin, Melvin G. McInnis, Andrew McIntosh, Rebecca McKinney, Alan W. McLean, Francis J. McMahon, Ingrid Melle, Fan Guo Meng, Philip B. Mitchell, Grant W. Montgomery, Jennifer Moran, Gunnar Morken, Derek Morris, Valentina Moskvina, Pierandrea Muglia, Thomas W. Mühleisen, Walter J. Muir, Bertram Müller-Mysok, Richard M. Myers, Caroline M. Nievergelt, Ivan Nikolov, Vishwajit Nimgaonkar, Markus M. Nöthen, John I. Nurnberger, Evaristus A. Nwulia, Colm O'Dushlaine, Urban Osby, Högni Óskarsson, Roy Perlis, Hannes Petursson, Benjamin S. Pickard, James B. Potash, Peter Propping, Shaun Purcell, Emma Quinn, Soumya Raychaudhuri, John Rice, Marcella Rietschel

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Abstract

Background Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and bipolar disorder (BPD) are frequently co-occurring and highly heritable mental health conditions. We hypothesized that BPD cases with an early age of onset (≤21 years old) would be particularly likely to show genetic covariation with ADHD. Methods Genome-wide association study data were available for 4609 individuals with ADHD, 9650 individuals with BPD (5167 thereof with early-onset BPD), and 21,363 typically developing controls. We conducted a cross-disorder genome-wide association study meta-analysis to identify whether the observed comorbidity between ADHD and BPD could be due to shared genetic risks. Results We found a significant single nucleotide polymorphism–based genetic correlation between ADHD and BPD in the full and age-restricted samples (rGfull =.64, p = 3.13 × 10–14; rGrestricted =.71, p = 4.09 × 10–16). The meta-analysis between the full BPD sample identified two genome-wide significant (prs7089973 = 2.47 × 10–8; prs11756438 = 4.36 × 10–8) regions located on chromosomes 6 (CEP85L) and 10 (TAF9BP2). Restricting the analyses to BPD cases with an early onset yielded one genome-wide significant association (prs58502974 = 2.11 × 10–8) on chromosome 5 in the ADCY2 gene. Additional nominally significant regions identified contained known expression quantitative trait loci with putative functional consequences for NT5DC1, NT5DC2, and CACNB3 expression, whereas functional predictions implicated ABLIM1 as an allele-specific expressed gene in neuronal tissue. Conclusions The single nucleotide polymorphism–based genetic correlation between ADHD and BPD is substantial, significant, and consistent with the existence of genetic overlap between ADHD and BPD, with potential differential genetic mechanisms involved in early and later BPD onset.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)634-641
Number of pages8
JournalBiological Psychiatry
Volume82
Issue number9
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 1 2017

Keywords

  • Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
  • GWAS
  • bipolar disorder
  • cross-disorder meta-analysis
  • genetic correlation
  • genetic overlap

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