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Low-frequency and rare variants may contribute to elucidate the genetics of major depressive disorder
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Yu, Chenglong
Arcos-Burgos, Mauricio
Baune, Bernhard T.
Arolt, Volker
Dannlowski, Udo
Wong, Ma-Li
Licinio, Julio
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2018
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Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a common but serious psychiatric disorder with significant levels of morbidity and mortality. Recent genome-wide association studies (GWAS) on common variants increase our understanding of MDD; however, the underlying genetic basis remains largely unknown. Many studies have been proposed to explore the genetics of complex diseases from a viewpoint of the "missing heritability" by considering low-frequency and rare variants, copy-number variations, and other types of genetic variants. Here we developed a novel computational and statistical strategy to investigate the "missing heritability" of MDD. We applied Hamming distance on common, low-frequency, and rare single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) sets to measure genetic distance between two individuals, and then built the multi-dimensional scaling (MDS) pictures. Whole-exome genotyping data from a Los Angeles Mexican-American cohort (203 MDD and 196 controls) and a European-ancestry cohort (473 MDD and 497 controls) were examined using our proposed methodology. MDS plots showed very significant separations between MDD cases and healthy controls for low-frequency SNP set (P value < 2.2e-16) and rare SNP set (P value = 7.681e-12). Our results suggested that low-frequency and rare variants may play more significant roles in the genetics of MDD. © 2018 The Author(s).
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California , Controlled Study , European American , Genetic Analysis , Genetic Variability , Genotype , Hamming Distance , Heritability , Human , Major Clinical Study , Major Depression , Mexican American , Single Nucleotide Polymorphism , Statistical Analysis , Whole Exome Sequencing , Estudio controlado , Americana Europea
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Controlled Study , European American , Hamming Distance , Genotype
