RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 A polygenic risk score analysis of psychosis endophenotypes across brain functional, structural, and cognitive domains A1 Ranlund, Siri A1 Calafato, Stella A1 Thygesen, Johan H. A1 Lin, Kuang A1 Cahn, Wiepke A1 Crespo‐Facorro, Benedicto A1 de Zwarte, Sonja M.C. A1 Díez, Álvaro A1 Di Forti, Marta A1 Iyegbe, Conrad A1 Jablensky, Assen A1 Jones, Rebecca A1 Hall, Mei‐Hua A1 Kahn, Rene A1 Kalaydjieva, Luba A1 Kravariti, Eugenia A1 McDonald, Colm A1 McIntosh, Andrew M. A1 McQuillin, Andrew A1 Picchioni, Marco A1 Prata, Diana P. A1 Rujescu, Dan A1 Schulze, Katja A1 Shaikh, Madiha A1 Toulopoulou, Timothea A1 van Haren, Neeltje A1 van Os, Jim A1 Vassos, Evangelos A1 Walshe, Muriel A1 Lewis, Cathryn A1 Murray, Robin M. A1 Powell, John A1 Bramon, Elvira AB This large multi-center study investigates the relationships between genetic risk for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, and multi-modal endophenotypes for psychosis. The sample included 4,242 individuals; 1,087 patients with psychosis, 822 unaffected first-degree relatives of patients, and 2,333 controls. Endophenotypes included the P300 event-related potential (N = 515), lateral ventricular volume (N = 798), and the cognitive measures block design (N = 3,089), digit span (N = 1,437), and the Ray Auditory Verbal Learning Task (N = 2,406). Data were collected across 11 sites in Europe and Australia; all genotyping and genetic analyses were done at the same laboratory in the United Kingdom. We calculated polygenic risk scores for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder separately, and used linear regression to test whether polygenic scores influenced the endophenotypes. Results showed that higher polygenic scores for schizophrenia were associated with poorer performance on the block design task and explained 0.2% (p = 0.009) of the variance. Associations in the same direction were found for bipolar disorder scores, but this was not statistically significant at the 1% level (p = 0.02). The schizophrenia score explained 0.4% of variance in lateral ventricular volumes, the largest across all phenotypes examined, although this was not significant (p = 0.063). None of the remaining associations reached significance after correction for multiple testing (with alpha at 1%). These results indicate that common genetic variants associated with schizophrenia predict performance in spatial visualization, providing additional evidence that this measure is an endophenotype for the disorder with shared genetic risk variants. The use of endophenotypes such as this will help to characterize the effects of common genetic variation in psychosis. SN 1552-4841 YR 2017 FD 2017 LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/66447 UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/66447 LA spa NO American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics 177(1), 21-34 DS UVaDOC RD 11-jul-2024