Genome-wide association study of problematic opioid prescription use in 132,113 23andMe research participants of European ancestry

© 2021. The Author(s)..

The growing prevalence of opioid use disorder (OUD) constitutes an urgent health crisis. Ample evidence indicates that risk for OUD is heritable. As a surrogate (or proxy) for OUD, we explored the genetic basis of using prescription opioids 'not as prescribed'. We hypothesized that misuse of opiates might be a heritable risk factor for OUD. To test this hypothesis, we performed a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of problematic opioid use (POU) in 23andMe research participants of European ancestry (N = 132,113; 21% cases). We identified two genome-wide significant loci (rs3791033, an intronic variant of KDM4A; rs640561, an intergenic variant near LRRIQ3). POU showed positive genetic correlations with the two largest available GWAS of OUD and opioid dependence (rg = 0.64, 0.80, respectively). We also identified numerous additional genetic correlations with POU, including alcohol dependence (rg = 0.74), smoking initiation (rg = 0.63), pain relief medication intake (rg = 0.49), major depressive disorder (rg = 0.44), chronic pain (rg = 0.42), insomnia (rg = 0.39), and loneliness (rg = 0.28). Although POU was positively genetically correlated with risk-taking (rg = 0.38), conditioning POU on risk-taking did not substantially alter the magnitude or direction of these genetic correlations, suggesting that POU does not simply reflect a genetic tendency towards risky behavior. Lastly, we performed phenome- and lab-wide association analyses, which uncovered additional phenotypes that were associated with POU, including respiratory failure, insomnia, ischemic heart disease, and metabolic and blood-related biomarkers. We conclude that opioid misuse can be measured in population-based cohorts and provides a cost-effective complementary strategy for understanding the genetic basis of OUD.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:26

Enthalten in:

Molecular psychiatry - 26(2021), 11 vom: 02. Nov., Seite 6209-6217

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Sanchez-Roige, Sandra [VerfasserIn]
Fontanillas, Pierre [VerfasserIn]
Jennings, Mariela V [VerfasserIn]
Bianchi, Sevim B [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Yuye [VerfasserIn]
Hatoum, Alexander S [VerfasserIn]
Sealock, Julia [VerfasserIn]
Davis, Lea K [VerfasserIn]
Elson, Sarah L [VerfasserIn]
23andMe Research Team [VerfasserIn]
Palmer, Abraham A [VerfasserIn]
Agee, Michelle [Sonstige Person]
Alipanahi, Babak [Sonstige Person]
Auton, Adam [Sonstige Person]
Bell, Robert K [Sonstige Person]
Bryc, Katarzyna [Sonstige Person]
Furlotte, Nicholas A [Sonstige Person]
Hinds, David A [Sonstige Person]
Huber, Karen E [Sonstige Person]
Kleinman, Aaron [Sonstige Person]
Litterman, Nadia K [Sonstige Person]
McCreight, Jennifer C [Sonstige Person]
McIntyre, Matthew H [Sonstige Person]
Mountain, Joanna L [Sonstige Person]
Noblin, Elizabeth S [Sonstige Person]
Northover, Carrie A M [Sonstige Person]
Pitts, Steven J [Sonstige Person]
Sathirapongsasuti, J Fah [Sonstige Person]
Sazonova, Olga V [Sonstige Person]
Shelton, Janie F [Sonstige Person]
Shringarpure, Suyash [Sonstige Person]
Tian, Chao [Sonstige Person]
Tung, Joyce Y [Sonstige Person]
Vacic, Vladimir [Sonstige Person]
Wilson, Catherine H [Sonstige Person]

Links:

Volltext

Themen:

Analgesics, Opioid
EC 1.14.11.-
EC 1.5.-
Journal Article
Jumonji Domain-Containing Histone Demethylases
KDM4A protein, human
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 14.03.2022

Date Revised 08.02.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1038/s41380-021-01335-3

funding:

Förderinstitution / Projekttitel:

PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM33266967X