期刊
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL GENETICS PART B-NEUROPSYCHIATRIC GENETICS
卷 171, 期 6, 页码 815-826出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.b.32446
关键词
ADHD; pathway analyses; GWAS
资金
- NIMH [MH099064, R13MH059126, R01MH094469]
- NIH/NCATS [UL1TR000128]
- DFG [HE1446/9-1]
- K.G. Jebsen Centre for Research on Neuropsychiatric Disorders
- European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) [602805, 602450]
- NWO Brain & Cognition Excellence Program [433-09-229]
- Vici Grant [016-130-669]
- European Community's Horizon 2020 Programme [643051]
- BD2K Initiative of NIH [U54 EB020403]
- Medical Research Council [MR/L010305/1] Funding Source: researchfish
Despite a wealth of evidence for the role of genetics in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), specific and definitive genetic mechanisms have not been identified. Pathway analyses, a subset of gene-set analyses, extend the knowledge gained from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) by providing functional context for genetic associations. However, there are numerous methods for association testing of gene sets and no real consensus regarding the best approach. The present study applied six pathway analysis methods to identify pathways associated with ADHD in two GWAS datasets from the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium. Methods that utilize genotypes to model pathway-level effects identified more replicable pathway associations than methods using summary statistics. In addition, pathways implicated by more than one method were significantly more likely to replicate. A number of brain-relevant pathways, such as RhoA signaling, glycosaminoglycan biosynthesis, fibroblast growth factor receptor activity, and pathways containing potassium channel genes, were nominally significant by multiple methods in both datasets. These results support previous hypotheses about the role of regulation of neurotransmitter release, neurite outgrowth and axon guidance in contributing to the ADHD phenotype and suggest the value of cross-method convergence in evaluating pathway analysis results. (c) 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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