Journal
HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING
Volume 43, Issue 1, Pages 329-340Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.25257
Keywords
cortical structure; endophenotypes; genetic architecture; neuropsychiatric disorders
Funding
- National Institute of Mental Health [R01MH121433, R01MH120125, R01MH118349]
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Research findings suggest that brain structure traits have lower polygenicity and higher discoverability compared to multiple neuropsychiatric disorders, supporting their potential as endophenotypes.
Human brain structure traits have been hypothesized to be broad endophenotypes for neuropsychiatric disorders, implying that brain structure traits are comparatively closer to the underlying biology. Genome-wide association studies from large sample sizes allow for the comparison of common variant genetic architectures between traits to test the evidence supporting this claim. Endophenotypes, compared to neuropsychiatric disorders, are hypothesized to have less polygenicity, with greater effect size of each susceptible SNP, requiring smaller sample sizes to discover them. Here, we compare polygenicity and discoverability of brain structure traits, neuropsychiatric disorders, and other traits (91 in total) to directly test this hypothesis. We found reduced polygenicity (FDR = 0.01) and increased discoverability (FDR = 3.68 x 10(-9)) of cortical brain structure traits, as compared to aggregated estimates of multiple neuropsychiatric disorders. We predict that similar to 8 M individuals will be required to explain the full heritability of cortical surface area by genome-wide significant SNPs, whereas sample sizes over 20 M will be required to explain the full heritability of depression. In conclusion, our findings are consistent with brain structure satisfying the higher power criterion of endophenotypes.
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