Translational Psychiatry (Dec 2023)

A resource of induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) lines including clinical, genomic, and cellular data from genetically isolated families with mood and psychotic disorders

  • Sevilla D. Detera-Wadleigh,
  • Layla Kassem,
  • Emily Besancon,
  • Fabiana Lopes,
  • Nirmala Akula,
  • Heejong Sung,
  • Meghan Blattner,
  • Laura Sheridan,
  • Ley Nadine Lacbawan,
  • Joshua Garcia,
  • Francis Gordovez,
  • Katherine Hosey,
  • Cassandra Donner,
  • Claudio Salvini,
  • Thomas Schulze,
  • David T. W. Chen,
  • Bryce England,
  • Joanna Cross,
  • Xueying Jiang,
  • Winston Corona,
  • Jill Russ,
  • Barbara Mallon,
  • Amalia Dutra,
  • Evgenia Pak,
  • Joe Steiner,
  • Nasir Malik,
  • Theresa de Guzman,
  • Natia Horato,
  • Mariana B. Mallmann,
  • Victoria Mendes,
  • Amanda L. Dűck,
  • Antonio E. Nardi,
  • Francis J. McMahon

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-023-02641-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Abstract Genome-wide (GWAS) and copy number variant (CNV) association studies have reproducibly identified numerous risk alleles associated with bipolar disorder (BD), major depressive disorder (MDD), and schizophrenia (SCZ), but biological characterization of these alleles lags gene discovery, owing to the inaccessibility of live human brain cells and inadequate animal models for human psychiatric conditions. Human-derived induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) provide a renewable cellular reagent that can be differentiated into living, disease-relevant cells and 3D brain organoids carrying the full complement of genetic variants present in the donor germline. Experimental studies of iPSC-derived cells allow functional characterization of risk alleles, establishment of causal relationships between genes and neurobiology, and screening for novel therapeutics. Here we report the creation and availability of an iPSC resource comprising clinical, genomic, and cellular data obtained from genetically isolated families with BD and related conditions. Results from the first 324 study participants, 61 of whom have validated pluripotent clones, show enrichment of rare single nucleotide variants and CNVs overlapping many known risk genes and pathogenic CNVs. This growing iPSC resource is available to scientists pursuing functional genomic studies of BD and related conditions.