Genome-wide association study identifies 48 common genetic variants associated with handedness

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作者
Cuellar-Partida, Gabriel [1 ,2 ]
Tung, Joyce Y. [2 ]
Eriksson, Nicholas [2 ]
Albrecht, Eva [3 ]
Aliev, Fazil [4 ,5 ]
Andreassen, Ole A. [6 ,7 ]
Barroso, Ines [8 ,9 ,10 ]
Beckmann, Jacques S. [11 ,12 ]
Boks, Marco P. [13 ]
Boomsma, Dorret I. [14 ,15 ]
Boyd, Heather A. [16 ]
Breteler, Monique M. B. [17 ]
Campbell, Harry [18 ]
Chasman, Daniel I. [19 ,20 ]
Cherkas, Lynn F. [21 ]
Davies, Gail [22 ,23 ]
de Geus, Eco J. C. [14 ,15 ]
Deary, Ian J. [22 ,23 ]
Deloukas, Panos [24 ,25 ]
Dick, Danielle M. [4 ,26 ]
Duffy, David L. [27 ]
Eriksson, Johan G. [28 ,29 ,30 ,31 ,32 ]
Esko, Tonu [33 ,34 ]
Feenstra, Bjarke [16 ]
Geller, Frank [16 ]
Gieger, Christian [35 ,36 ]
Giegling, Ina [37 ,38 ]
Gordon, Scott D. [27 ]
Han, Jiali [39 ,40 ]
Hansen, Thomas F. [41 ,42 ]
Hartmann, Annette M. [37 ,38 ]
Hayward, Caroline [43 ]
Heikkila, Kauko [44 ]
Hicks, Andrew A. [45 ]
Hirschhorn, Joel N. [46 ,47 ,48 ]
Hottenga, Jouke-Jan [14 ,15 ]
Huffman, Jennifer E. [43 ]
Hwang, Liang-Dar [1 ]
Ikram, M. Arfan [49 ]
Kaprio, Jaakko [44 ,50 ]
Kemp, John P. [1 ,51 ]
Khaw, Kay-Tee [52 ]
Klopp, Norman [53 ]
Konte, Bettina [37 ,38 ]
Kutalik, Zoltan [54 ,55 ]
Lahti, Jari [56 ,57 ,58 ]
Li, Xin [39 ,40 ]
Loos, Ruth J. F. [9 ,59 ,60 ]
Luciano, Michelle [22 ,23 ]
Magnusson, Sigurdur H. [61 ]
机构
[1] Univ Queensland, Diamantina Inst, Woolloongabba, Qld, Australia
[2] 23andMe Inc, Sunnyvale, CA USA
[3] German Res Ctr Environm Hlth, Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen, Inst Genet Epidemiol, Neuherberg, Germany
[4] Virginia Commonwealth Univ, Dept Psychol, Box 2018, Richmond, VA 23284 USA
[5] Karabuk Univ, Fac Business, Karabuk, Turkey
[6] Univ Oslo, Inst Clin Med, NORMENT, Oslo, Norway
[7] Oslo Univ Hosp, Div Mental Hlth & Addict, Oslo, Norway
[8] Wellcome Sanger Inst, Human Genet, Hinxton, England
[9] Univ Cambridge, MRC Epidemiol Unit, Cambridge, England
[10] Univ Cambridge, Wellcome MRC Inst Metab Sci, Cambridge, England
[11] CHU Vaudois, Serv Med Genet, Lausanne, Switzerland
[12] Univ Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
[13] Univ Utrecht, UMC Utrecht Brain Ctr, Dept Psychiat, Utrecht, Netherlands
[14] Vrije Univ, Dept Biol Psychol, Amsterdam, Netherlands
[15] Univ Amsterdam, Amsterdam Publ Hlth Res Inst, Med Ctr, Amsterdam, Netherlands
[16] Statens Serum Inst, Dept Epidemiol Res, Copenhagen, Denmark
[17] German Ctr Neurodegenerat Dis DZNE, Populat Hlth Sci, Bonn, Germany
[18] Univ Edinburgh, Usher Inst Populat Hlth Sci & Informat, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
[19] Brigham & Womens Hosp, Div Prevent Med, 75 Francis St, Boston, MA 02115 USA
[20] Harvard Med Sch, Boston, MA 02115 USA
[21] Kings Coll London, Dept Twin Res & Genet Epidemiol, London, England
[22] Univ Edinburgh, Dept Psychol, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
[23] Univ Edinburgh, Ctr Cognit Ageing & Cognit Epidemiol, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
[24] Queen Mary Univ London, William Harvey Res Inst, Barts & London Med Sch, London, England
[25] Queen Mary Univ London, Ctr Genom Hlth, London, England
[26] Virginia Commonwealth Univ, Dept Human & Mol Genet, Richmond, VA USA
[27] QIMR Berghofer Med Res Inst, Genet Epidemiol, Brisbane, Qld, Australia
[28] Univ Helsinki, Dept Gen Practice & Primary Hlth Care, Helsinki, Finland
[29] Helsinki Univ Hosp, Helsinki, Finland
[30] Folkhalsan Res Ctr, Helsinki, Finland
[31] Agcy Sci Technol & Res, Singapore Inst Clin Sci, Singapore, Singapore
[32] Natl Univ Singapore, Yong Loo Lin Sch Med, Dept Obstet & Gynaecol, Singapore, Singapore
[33] Univ Tartu, Inst Genom, Estonian Genome Ctr, Tartu, Estonia
[34] Broad Inst MIT & Harvard, Program Med & Populat Genet, Cambridge, MA 02142 USA
[35] German Res Ctr Environm Hlth, Res Unit Mol Epidemiol, Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen, Inst Epidemiol, Neuherberg, Germany
[36] German Ctr Diabet Res DZD, Neuherberg, Germany
[37] Martin Luther Univ Halle Wittenberg, Univ Clin, Halle, Saale, Germany
[38] Martin Luther Univ Halle Wittenberg, Outpatient Clin Psychiat Psychotherapy & Psychoso, Halle, Saale, Germany
[39] Indiana Univ, Dept Epidemiol, Richard M Fairbanks Sch Publ Hlth, Indianapolis, IN 46204 USA
[40] Indiana Univ, Melvin & Bren Simon Canc Ctr, Indianapolis, IN 46204 USA
[41] Mental Hlth Serv Copenhagen, Inst Biol Psychiat, Copenhagen, Denmark
[42] Copenhagen Univ Hosp, Danish Headache Ctr, Glostrup, Denmark
[43] Univ Edinburgh, Inst Genet & Mol Med, MRC Human Genet Unit, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
[44] Univ Helsinki, Inst Mol Med FIMM, Helsinki, Finland
[45] Eurac Res, Inst Biomed, Bolzano, Italy
[46] Boston Childrens Hosp, Div Endocrinol, Boston, MA USA
[47] Harvard Med Sch, Dept Genet, Boston, MA 02115 USA
[48] Broad Inst, Med & Populat Genet, Cambridge, MA USA
[49] Univ Med Ctr, Dept Epidemiol, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands
[50] Univ Helsinki, Dept Publ Hlth, Helsinki, Finland
基金
英国惠康基金; 英国医学研究理事会; 澳大利亚研究理事会; 芬兰科学院; 澳大利亚国家健康与医学研究理事会; 新加坡国家研究基金会;
关键词
LANGUAGE DOMINANCE; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; METAANALYSIS; MICROTUBULE; ASYMMETRY; AUTISM; LATERALIZATION; SCHIZOPHRENIA; ORIGINS; SCREEN;
D O I
10.1038/s41562-020-00956-y
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
学科分类号
04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
Handedness has been extensively studied because of its relationship with language and the over-representation of left-handers in some neurodevelopmental disorders. Using data from the UK Biobank, 23andMe and the International Handedness Consortium, we conducted a genome-wide association meta-analysis of handedness (N = 1,766,671). We found 41 loci associated (P < 5 x 10(-8)) with left-handedness and 7 associated with ambidexterity. Tissue-enrichment analysis implicated the CNS in the aetiology of handedness. Pathways including regulation of microtubules and brain morphology were also highlighted. We found suggestive positive genetic correlations between left-handedness and neuropsychiatric traits, including schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Furthermore, the genetic correlation between left-handedness and ambidexterity is low (r(G) = 0.26), which implies that these traits are largely influenced by different genetic mechanisms. Our findings suggest that handedness is highly polygenic and that the genetic variants that predispose to left-handedness may underlie part of the association with some psychiatric disorders. A genome-wide association study of 1.7 million individuals identified 41 genetic variants associated with left-handedness and 7 associated with ambidexterity. The genetic correlation between the traits was low, thereby implying different aetiologies.
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