Nature Communications (Sep 2020)

Genetic correlations and genome-wide associations of cortical structure in general population samples of 22,824 adults

  • Edith Hofer,
  • Gennady V. Roshchupkin,
  • Hieab H. H. Adams,
  • Maria J. Knol,
  • Honghuang Lin,
  • Shuo Li,
  • Habil Zare,
  • Shahzad Ahmad,
  • Nicola J. Armstrong,
  • Claudia L. Satizabal,
  • Manon Bernard,
  • Joshua C. Bis,
  • Nathan A. Gillespie,
  • Michelle Luciano,
  • Aniket Mishra,
  • Markus Scholz,
  • Alexander Teumer,
  • Rui Xia,
  • Xueqiu Jian,
  • Thomas H. Mosley,
  • Yasaman Saba,
  • Lukas Pirpamer,
  • Stephan Seiler,
  • James T. Becker,
  • Owen Carmichael,
  • Jerome I. Rotter,
  • Bruce M. Psaty,
  • Oscar L. Lopez,
  • Najaf Amin,
  • Sven J. van der Lee,
  • Qiong Yang,
  • Jayandra J. Himali,
  • Pauline Maillard,
  • Alexa S. Beiser,
  • Charles DeCarli,
  • Sherif Karama,
  • Lindsay Lewis,
  • Mat Harris,
  • Mark E. Bastin,
  • Ian J. Deary,
  • A. Veronica Witte,
  • Frauke Beyer,
  • Markus Loeffler,
  • Karen A. Mather,
  • Peter R. Schofield,
  • Anbupalam Thalamuthu,
  • John B. Kwok,
  • Margaret J. Wright,
  • David Ames,
  • Julian Trollor,
  • Jiyang Jiang,
  • Henry Brodaty,
  • Wei Wen,
  • Meike W. Vernooij,
  • Albert Hofman,
  • André G. Uitterlinden,
  • Wiro J. Niessen,
  • Katharina Wittfeld,
  • Robin Bülow,
  • Uwe Völker,
  • Zdenka Pausova,
  • G. Bruce Pike,
  • Sophie Maingault,
  • Fabrice Crivello,
  • Christophe Tzourio,
  • Philippe Amouyel,
  • Bernard Mazoyer,
  • Michael C. Neale,
  • Carol E. Franz,
  • Michael J. Lyons,
  • Matthew S. Panizzon,
  • Ole A. Andreassen,
  • Anders M. Dale,
  • Mark Logue,
  • Katrina L. Grasby,
  • Neda Jahanshad,
  • Jodie N. Painter,
  • Lucía Colodro-Conde,
  • Janita Bralten,
  • Derrek P. Hibar,
  • Penelope A. Lind,
  • Fabrizio Pizzagalli,
  • Jason L. Stein,
  • Paul M. Thompson,
  • Sarah E. Medland,
  • ENIGMA consortium,
  • Perminder S. Sachdev,
  • William S. Kremen,
  • Joanna M. Wardlaw,
  • Arno Villringer,
  • Cornelia M. van Duijn,
  • Hans J. Grabe,
  • William T. Longstreth,
  • Myriam Fornage,
  • Tomas Paus,
  • Stephanie Debette,
  • M. Arfan Ikram,
  • Helena Schmidt,
  • Reinhold Schmidt,
  • Sudha Seshadri

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18367-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Cortex morphology varies with age, cognitive function, and in neurological and psychiatric diseases. Here the authors report 160 genome-wide significant associations with thickness, surface area and volume of the total cortex and 34 cortical regions from a GWAS meta-analysis in 22,824 adults.