Bipolar patients display stoichiometric imbalance of gene expression in post-mortem brain samples

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Bipolar disorder is a severe neuro-psychiatric condition where genome-wide association and sequencing studies have pointed to dysregulated gene expression as likely to be causal. We observed strong correlation in expression between GWAS-associated genes and hypothesised that healthy function depends on balance in the relative expression levels of the associated genes and that patients display stoichiometric imbalance. We developed a method for quantifying stoichiometric imbalance and used this to predict each sample's diagnosis probability in four cortical brain RNAseq datasets. The percentage of phenotypic variance on the liability-scale explained by these probabilities ranged from 10.0 to 17.4% (AUC: 69.4-76.4%) which is a multiple of the classification performance achieved using absolute expression levels or GWAS-based polygenic risk scores. Most patients display stoichiometric imbalance in three to ten genes, suggesting that dysregulation of only a small fraction of associated genes can trigger the disorder, with the identity of these genes varying between individuals.

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2024

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2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2024

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Molecular psychiatry - (2024) vom: 13. Feb.

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Englisch

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Holmgren, Asbjørn [VerfasserIn]
Akkouh, Ibrahim [VerfasserIn]
O'Connell, Kevin Sean [VerfasserIn]
Osete, Jordi Requena [VerfasserIn]
Bjørnstad, Pål Marius [VerfasserIn]
Djurovic, Srdjan [VerfasserIn]
Hughes, Timothy [VerfasserIn]

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Date Revised 17.02.2024

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10.1038/s41380-023-02398-0

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NLM368412776