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Discipline of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
Asrat Woldeyes Health Science Campus, Debre Berhan University, Debre Berhan, Ethiopia.
Biol Psychiatry Glob Open Sci. 2025 Jun 25;5(5):100558. doi: 10.1016/j.bpsgos.2025.100558. eCollection 2025 Sep.
Polygenic scores (PGSs) hold the potential to identify patients who respond favorably to specific psychiatric treatments. However, their biological interpretation remains unclear. In this study, we developed pathway-specific PGSs (PS) for lithium response and assessed their association with clinical lithium response in patients with bipolar disorder.
Using sets of genes involved in pathways affected by lithium, we developed 9 PS and evaluated their associations with lithium response in the International Consortium on Lithium Genetics (ConLiGen) ( = 2367), with validation in combined PsyCourse (Pathomechanisms and Signatures in the Longitudinal Course of Psychosis) ( = 105) and BipoLife ( = 102) cohorts. The association between each PS and lithium response-defined both as a continuous ALDA score and a categorical outcome (good vs. poor responses)-was evaluated using regression models, with adjustment for confounders. The cutoff for a significant association was < .05 after multiple testing correction.
The PGSs for acetylcholine, GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid), and mitochondria were associated with response to lithium in both categorical and continuous outcomes. However, the PGSs for calcium channel, circadian rhythm, and GSK (glycogen synthase kinase) were associated only with the continuous outcome. Each score explained 0.29% to 1.91% of the variance in the categorical and 0.30% to 1.54% of the variance in the continuous outcomes. A multivariate model combining PS that showed significant associations in the univariate analysis (combined PS) increased the percentage of variance explained ( ) to 3.71% and 3.18% for the categorical and continuous outcomes, respectively. Associations for PGSs for GABA and circadian rhythm were replicated. Patients with the highest genetic loading (10th decile) for acetylcholine variants were 3.03 times more likely (95% CI, 1.95 to 4.69) to show a good lithium response (categorical outcome) than patients with the lowest genetic loading (1st decile).
PS achieved predictive performance comparable to the conventional genome-wide PGSs, with the added advantage of biological interpretability using a smaller list of genetic variants.
多基因评分(PGS)有潜力识别出对特定精神科治疗反应良好的患者。然而,其生物学解释仍不明确。在本研究中,我们开发了针对锂反应的通路特异性多基因评分(PS),并评估了它们与双相情感障碍患者临床锂反应的关联。
利用参与受锂影响通路的基因集,我们开发了9个PS,并在国际锂遗传学联盟(ConLiGen)(n = 2367)中评估了它们与锂反应的关联,并在综合的PsyCourse(精神病纵向病程中的发病机制和特征)(n = 105)和BipoLife(n = 102)队列中进行验证。使用回归模型评估每个PS与锂反应之间的关联,锂反应定义为连续的ALDA评分和分类结果(良好反应与不良反应),并对混杂因素进行调整。多次检验校正后,显著关联的临界值为p < 0.05。
乙酰胆碱、GABA(γ-氨基丁酸)和线粒体的PGS在分类和连续结果中均与锂反应相关。然而,钙通道、昼夜节律和GSK(糖原合酶激酶)的PGS仅与连续结果相关。每个评分在分类结果中解释了0.29%至1.91%的方差,在连续结果中解释了0.30%至1.54%的方差。一个结合了在单变量分析中显示出显著关联的PS的多变量模型(组合PS),在分类和连续结果中分别将解释的方差百分比(R²)提高到3.71%和3.18%。GABA和昼夜节律的PGS关联得到了重复验证。乙酰胆碱变体基因负荷最高(第10分位数)的患者比基因负荷最低(第1分位数)的患者表现出良好锂反应(分类结果)的可能性高3.03倍(95%CI,1.95至4.69)。
PS实现了与传统全基因组PGS相当的预测性能,具有使用较少基因变异列表进行生物学解释的额外优势。