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PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE
卷 41, 期 3, 页码 521-532出版社
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291710000942
关键词
Endophenotype; memory; neurocognition; schizophrenia; twins
资金
- European Community through Marie Curie Training Network called the European Twin Study Network on Schizophrenia
- NARSAD
- Wellcome Trust [064971]
- Economic and Social Research Council/Medical Research Council [PTA-037-27-0002]
- Psychiatry Research Trust
- National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Specialist Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health
- Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
- Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London
- Medical Research Council [G9817803B] Funding Source: researchfish
Background. Visual and verbal episodic memory deficits are putative endophenotypes for schizophrenia; however, the extent of any genetic overlap of these with schizophrenia is unclear. In this study, we set out to quantify the genetic and environmental contributions to variance in visual and verbal memory performance, and to quantify their genetic relationship with schizophrenia. Method. We applied bivariate genetic modelling to 280 twins in a classic twin study design, including monozygotic (MZ) and dizygotic (DZ) pairs concordant and discordant for schizophrenia, and healthy control twins. We assessed episodic memory using subtests of the Wechsler Memory Scale - Revised (WMS-R). Results. Genetic influences (i.e. heritability) contributed significantly to variance in immediate recall of both verbal memory and visual learning, and the delayed recall of verbal and visual memory. Liability to schizophrenia was associated with memory impairment, with evidence of significant phenotypic correlations between all episodic memory measures and schizophrenia. Genetic factors were the main source of the phenotypic correlations for immediate recall of visual learning material; both immediate and delayed recall of verbal memory; and delayed recall of visual memory that, for example, shared genetic variance with schizophrenia, which accounted for 88% of the phenotypic correlation (r(ph) = 0.41) between the two. Conclusions. Verbal memory and visual learning and memory are moderately heritable, share a genetic overlap with schizophrenia and are valid endophenotypes for the condition. The inclusion of these endophenotypes in genetic association studies may improve the power to detect susceptibility genes for schizophrenia.
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