Janita Bralten, Nina R Mota, Cornelius J H M Klemann, Ward De Witte, Emma Laing, David A Collier, Hilde de Kluiver, Stephanie E E C Bauduin, Celso Arango, Jose L Ayuso-Mateos, Chiara Fabbri, Martien J Kas, Nic van der Wee, Brenda W J H Penninx, Alessandro Serretti, Barbara Franke, Geert Poelmans
Levels of sociability are continuously distributed in the general population, and decreased sociability represents an early manifestation of several brain disorders. Here, we investigated the genetic underpinnings of sociability in the population. We performed a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of a sociability score based on four social functioning-related self-report questions from 342,461 adults in the UK Biobank. Subsequently we performed gene-wide and functional follow-up analyses. Robustness analyses were performed in the form of GWAS split-half validation analyses, as well as analyses excluding neuropsychiatric cases...
August 2021: Neuropsychopharmacology