Central Institute of Mental Health, Sleep Laboratory, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, J5, 68159, Mannheim, Germany.
Central Institute of Mental Health, Department of Genetic Epidemiology in Psychiatry, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany.
Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci. 2022 Oct;272(7):1193-1203. doi: 10.1007/s00406-022-01435-3. Epub 2022 Jun 20.
Cognitive impairment is a common feature in schizophrenia and the strongest prognostic factor for long-term outcome. Identifying a trait associated with the genetic background for cognitive outcome in schizophrenia may aid in a deeper understanding of clinical disease subtypes. Fast sleep spindles may represent such a biomarker as they are strongly genetically determined, associated with cognitive functioning and impaired in schizophrenia and unaffected relatives. We measured fast sleep spindle density in 150 healthy adults and investigated its association with a genome-wide polygenic score for schizophrenia (SCZ-PGS). The association between SCZ-PGS and fast spindle density was further characterized by stratifying it to the genetic background of intelligence. SCZ-PGS was positively associated with fast spindle density. This association mainly depended on pro-cognitive genetic variants. Our results strengthen the evidence for a genetic background of spindle abnormalities in schizophrenia. Spindle density might represent an easily accessible marker for a favourable cognitive outcome which should be further investigated in clinical samples.
认知障碍是精神分裂症的一个常见特征,也是长期预后的最强预测因素。确定与精神分裂症认知结果相关的遗传背景特征,可能有助于更深入地了解临床疾病亚型。快速睡眠纺锤波可能就是这样的生物标志物,因为它们具有很强的遗传决定因素,与认知功能有关,在精神分裂症患者及其未受影响的亲属中受到损害。我们测量了 150 名健康成年人的快速睡眠纺锤波密度,并研究了其与精神分裂症全基因组多基因评分(SCZ-PGS)之间的关联。通过将其分层到智力的遗传背景,进一步描述了 SCZ-PGS 与快速纺锤波密度之间的关联。SCZ-PGS 与快速纺锤波密度呈正相关。这种关联主要取决于促进认知的遗传变异。我们的研究结果进一步证实了精神分裂症中纺锤体异常的遗传背景。纺锤波密度可能代表着一种容易获得的有利认知结果的标志物,应在临床样本中进一步研究。