| Title: |
Genetic association study of childhood aggression across raters, instruments, and age |
| Authors: |
Ip, HF; Van der Laan, CM; Krapohl, EML; Brikell, I; Sanchez-Mora, C; Nolte, IM; St Pourcain, B; Bolhuis, K; Palviainen, T; Zafarmand, H; Colodro-Conde, L; Gordon, S; Zayats, T; Aliev, F; Jiang, C; Wang, CA; Saunders, G; Karhunen, V; Hammerschlag, AR; Adkins, DE; Border, R; Peterson, RE; Prinz, JA; Thiering, E; Seppala, I; Vilor-Tejedor, N; Ahluwalia, TS; Day, FR; Hottenga, J-J; Allegrini, AG; Rimfeld, K; Chen, Q; Lu, Y; Martin, J; Soler Artigas, M; Rovira, P; Bosch, R; Espanol, G; Ramos Quiroga, JA; Neumann, A; Ensink, J; Grasby, K; Morosoli, JJ; Tong, X; Marrington, S; Middeldorp, C; Scott, JG; Vinkhuyzen, A; Shabalin, AA; Corley, R; Evans, LM; Sugden, K; Alemany, S; Sass, L; Vinding, R; Ruth, K; Tyrrell, J; Davies, GE; Ehli, EA; Hagenbeek, FA; De Zeeuw, E; Van Beijsterveldt, TCEM; Larsson, H; Snieder, H; Verhulst, FC; Amin, N; Whipp, AM; Korhonen, T; Vuoksimaa, E; Rose, RJ; Uitterlinden, AG; Heath, AC; Madden, P; Haavik, J; Harris, JR; Helgeland, O; Johansson, S; Knudsen, GPS; Njolstad, PR; Lu, Q; Rodriguez, A; Henders, AK; Mamun, A; Najman, JM; Brown, S; Hopfer, C; Krauter, K; Reynolds, C; Smolen, A; Stallings, M; Wadsworth, S; Wall, TL; Silberg, JL; Miller, A; Keltikangas-Jarvinen, L; Hakulinen, C; Pulkki-Raback, L; Havdahl, A; Magnus, P; Raitakari, OT; Perry, JRB; Llop, S; Lopez-Espinosa, M-J; Bonnelykke, K; Bisgaard, H; Sunyer, J; Lehtimaki, T; Arseneault, L; Standl, M; Heinrich, J; Boden, J; Pearson, J; Horwood, LJ; Kennedy, M; Poulton, R; Eaves, LJ; Maes, HH; Hewitt, J; Copeland, WE; Costello, EJ; Williams, GM; Wray, N; Jarvelin, M-R; McGue, M; Iacono, W; Caspi, A; Moffitt, TE; Whitehouse, A; Pennell, CE; Klump, KL; Burt, SA; Dick, DM; Reichborn-Kjennerud, T; Martin, NG; Medland, SE; Vrijkotte, T; Kaprio, J; Tiemeier, H; Davey Smith, G; Hartman, CA; Oldehinkel, AJ; Casas, M; Ribases, M; Lichtenstein, P; Lundstrom, S; Plomin, R; Bartels, M; Nivard, MG; Boomsma, DI |
| Source: |
9 ; 1 |
| Publisher Information: |
Nature Publishing Group |
| Publication Year: |
2021 |
| Collection: |
Imperial College London: Spiral |
| Subject Terms: |
Science & Technology; Life Sciences & Biomedicine; Psychiatry; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION; TRAJECTORIES; HERITABILITY; ADOLESCENCE; DISORDER; BEHAVIOR; ORIGINS; Adolescent; Aggression; Child; Preschool; Female; Genetic Association Studies; Genome-Wide Association Study; Humans; Infant; Mental Disorders; Retrospective Studies; 1103 Clinical Sciences; 1117 Public Health and Health Services; 1701 Psychology |
| Description: |
Childhood aggressive behavior (AGG) has a substantial heritability of around 50%. Here we present a genome-wide association meta-analysis (GWAMA) of childhood AGG, in which all phenotype measures across childhood ages from multiple assessors were included. We analyzed phenotype assessments for a total of 328 935 observations from 87 485 children aged between 1.5 and 18 years, while accounting for sample overlap. We also meta-analyzed within subsets of the data, i.e., within rater, instrument and age. SNP-heritability for the overall meta-analysis (AGGoverall) was 3.31% (SE = 0.0038). We found no genome-wide significant SNPs for AGGoverall. The gene-based analysis returned three significant genes: ST3GAL3 (P = 1.6E–06), PCDH7 (P = 2.0E–06), and IPO13 (P = 2.5E–06). All three genes have previously been associated with educational traits. Polygenic scores based on our GWAMA significantly predicted aggression in a holdout sample of children (variance explained = 0.44%) and in retrospectively assessed childhood aggression (variance explained = 0.20%). Genetic correlations (rg) among rater-specific assessment of AGG ranged from rg = 0.46 between self- and teacher-assessment to rg = 0.81 between mother- and teacher-assessment. We obtained moderate-to-strong rgs with selected phenotypes from multiple domains, but hardly with any of the classical biomarkers thought to be associated with AGG. Significant genetic correlations were observed with most psychiatric and psychological traits (range |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
Translational Psychiatry; http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/91580 |
| DOI: |
10.1038/s41398-021-01480-x |
| Availability: |
http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/91580; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-021-01480-x |
| Rights: |
© The Author(s) 2021. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. ; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.622E0B81 |
| Database: |
BASE |