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Genome-Wide Association Study Points to Novel Locus for Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome

  • The PGC TS Working Group
  • , The TSAICG
  • , The TSGeneSEE Initiative
  • , the EMTICS Collaborative Group
  • , The TS-EUROTRAIN Network
  • , The TIC Genetics Collaborative Group
  • Democritus University of Thrace
  • Purdue University
  • Massachusetts General Hospital
  • Broad Institute
  • University of Copenhagen
  • University of Catania
  • Sorbonne Université
  • University of Duisburg-Essen
  • Hannover Medical School
  • Utrecht University
  • Ulm University
  • EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research
  • Medical University of Warsaw
  • Laboratory of Ischemic and Neurodegenerative Brain Research
  • Semmelweis University
  • Vadaskert Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
  • Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
  • Radboud University Nijmegen
  • deCODE Genetics
  • Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH
  • George Papanikolaou Hospital
  • University of Washington
  • Altius Institute for Biomedical Sciences
  • Tel Aviv University
  • University of Rome La Sapienza
  • King’s College London School of Medicine
  • Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust
  • Levvel Academic Center for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
  • Amsterdam UMC
  • Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocio
  • Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red
  • IDIBAPS
  • August Pi i Sunyer Biomedical Research Institute
  • Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
  • University of Lübeck
  • University of Lausanne
  • ASL BA
  • Technische Universität Dresden
  • University of Zurich
  • University College London
  • University of Calgary
  • Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick
  • University of California at San Francisco
  • California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences
  • University of Groningen
  • Vanderbilt University
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Karolinska Institutet
  • University of Florida
  • Brigham and Women’s Hospital
  • Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

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Abstract

Background: Tourette syndrome (TS) is a childhood-onset neurodevelopmental disorder of complex genetic architecture and is characterized by multiple motor tics and at least one vocal tic persisting for more than 1 year. Methods: We performed a genome-wide meta-analysis integrating a novel TS cohort with previously published data, resulting in a sample size of 6133 individuals with TS and 13,565 ancestry-matched control participants. Results: We identified a genome-wide significant locus on chromosome 5q15. Integration of expression quantitative trait locus, Hi-C (high-throughput chromosome conformation capture), and genome-wide association study data implicated the NR2F1 gene and associated long noncoding RNAs within the 5q15 locus. Heritability partitioning identified statistically significant enrichment in brain tissue histone marks, while polygenic risk scoring of brain volume data identified statistically significant associations with right and left thalamus volumes and right putamen volume. Conclusions: Our work presents novel insights into the neurobiology of TS, thereby opening up new directions for future studies.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)114-124
Number of pages11
JournalBiological Psychiatry
Volume96
Issue number2
Early online date2 Feb 2023
DOIs
StatePublished - 15 Jul 2024

Bibliographical note

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Funding

This work was supported by EMTICS (FP7-HEALTH, Grant agreement ID No. 278367 [to PP and PJH]), TS-EUROTRAIN (FP7-PEOPLE, Grant agreement ID No. 316978 [to PP]), the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (Grant No. R01NS105746), U.S. National Science Foundation (Grant Nos. 2006929 and 1715202 [to PP]), and the National Institute of Mental Health (Grant No. R01MH126213 [to PP]). AJW also received funding from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Grant No. R01NS105746, the Tourette Association of America, and the Weill Institute for Neurosciences. AM received funding from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Grant No. FOR 2698). AS received support from the NIHR UCL/H Biomedical Research Centre. BH is an employee of Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma. CJ received funding from Lundbeck Fonden (Grant No. R100-2011-9332). CB received funding from the Merit-prize fellowship of Semmelweis University, the Bolyai Janos research fellowship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Grant No.BO/00987/16/5), the UNKP-18-4 of the new National Excellence Program of the Ministry of Human Capacities, and the Baron Munchausen Program of the Institute of Medical Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Pathobiochemistry, Semmelweis University. DCC received funding from the TSAA, the Stichting VC-GGZ, and TS-EUROTRAIN. DM has received research support from Ipsen Corporate and funding grants from Dystonia Medical Research Foundation Canada, Parkinson Canada, The Owerko Foundation, and the Michael P. Smith Family. LKD was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health (Grant Nos. R01NS102371 and R01NS105746). PM has received grants from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (Grant No. RTC2019-007150-1), the Instituto de Salud Carlos III-Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (Grant Nos. PI16/01575, PI19/01576), the Consejeria de Economia, Innovacion, Ciencia y Empleo de la Junta de Andalucia (Grant Nos. CVI-02526, CTS-7685), and the Consejeria de Salud y Bienestar Social de la Junta de Andalucia, (Grant No. PE-0210-2018). PJ and CZ were funded by the National Science Center, Poland (Grant No. UMO-2016/23/B/NZ2/03030). ZT was funded by Lundbeck Fonden (Grant No. R100-2011-9332). TIC Genetics (Tourette International Collaborative Genetics) was supported by the National Institutes of Health (Grant Nos. MH115958, MH115960, MH115962, MH115961, MH115993, MH115963, and MH115959) and the New Jersey Center for Tourette Syndrome and Associated Disorder. Summary statistics data are available upon request to the corresponding authors. The authors report no biomedical financial interests or potential conflicts of interest. This work was supported by EMTICS (FP7-HEALTH, Grant agreement ID No. 278367 [to PP and PJH]), TS-EUROTRAIN (FP7-PEOPLE, Grant agreement ID No. 316978 [to PP]), the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (Grant No. R01NS105746 ), U.S. National Science Foundation (Grant Nos. 2006929 and 1715202 [to PP]), and the National Institute of Mental Health (Grant No. R01MH12621 3 [to PP]). AJW also received funding from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Grant No. R01NS105746 , the Tourette Association of America, and the Weill Institute for Neurosciences. AM received funding from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Grant No. FOR 2698). AS received support from the NIHR UCL/H Biomedical Research Centre . BH is an employee of Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma. CJ received funding from Lundbeck Fonden (Grant No. R100-2011-9332). CB received funding from the Merit-prize fellowship of Semmelweis University, the Bolyai Janos research fellowship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Grant No.BO/00987/16/5), the UNKP-18-4 of the new National Excellence Program of the Ministry of Human Capacities, and the Baron Munchausen Program of the Institute of Medical Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Pathobiochemistry, Semmelweis University. DCC received funding from the TSAA, the Stichting VC-GGZ, and TS-EUROTRAIN. DM has received research support from Ipsen Corporate and funding grants from Dystonia Medical Research Foundation Canada , Parkinson Canada , The Owerko Foundation , and the Michael P. Smith Family. LKD was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health (Grant Nos. R01NS102371 and R01NS105746). PM has received grants from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (Grant No. RTC2019-007150-1 ), the Instituto de Salud Carlos III-Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (Grant Nos. PI16/01575, PI19/01576), the Consejeria de Economia, Innovacion, Ciencia y Empleo de la Junta de Andalucia (Grant Nos. CVI-02526, CTS-7685), and the Consejeria de Salud y Bienestar Social de la Junta de Andalucia, (Grant No. PE-0210-2018). PJ and CZ were funded by the National Science Center, Poland (Grant No. UMO-2016/23/B/NZ2/03030). ZT was funded by Lundbeck Fonden (Grant No. R100-2011-9332). TIC Genetics (Tourette International Collaborative Genetics) was supported by the National Institutes of Health (Grant Nos. MH115958 , MH115960 , MH115962 , MH115961 , MH115993 , MH115963 , and MH115959 ) and the New Jersey Center for Tourette Syndrome and Associated Disorder.

FundersFunder number
EMTICS278367, FP7-HEALTH
Instituto de Salud Carlos III-Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo RegionalPI16/01575, PI19/01576
Ipsen Corporate
Lundbeck FondenR100-2011-9332
Michael P. Smith Family
NIHR UCL
New Jersey Center for Tourette Syndrome and Associated Disorder
Owerko Foundation
Stichting VC-GGZ
TS-EUROTRAIN316978, FP7-PEOPLE
TSAA
National Science Foundation2006929, 1715202
National Institutes of HealthR01NS102371
National Institute of Mental HealthR01MH12621 3
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and StrokeR01NS105746
Boehringer Ingelheim
Tourette Association of America
Manchester Biomedical Research Centre
Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco
Deutsche ForschungsgemeinschaftFOR 2698
Semmelweis Egyetem
Magyar Tudományos AkadémiaUNKP-18-4, /00987/16/5
Narodowym Centrum NaukiUMO-2016/23/B/NZ2/03030, MH115958, MH115959, MH115963, MH115960, MH115993, MH115961, MH115962
Ministerio de Ciencia e InnovaciónRTC2019-007150-1
Emberi Eroforrások Minisztériuma
Parkinson Canada
Junta de AndalucíaCTS-7685, CVI-02526
Dystonia Medical Research Foundation Canada
Consejería de Salud y Bienestar Social, Junta de AndalucíaPE-0210-2018

    Keywords

    • GWAS
    • Meta-analysis
    • NR2F1
    • Tourette syndrome

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