Georgia Panagiotaropoulou, Kajsa-Lotta Georgii Hellberg, Jonathan R I Coleman, Darsol Seok, Janos Kalman, Philip B Mitchell, Peter R Schofield, Andreas J Forstner, Michael Bauer, Laura J Scott, Carlos N Pato, Michele T Pato, Qingqin S Li, George Kirov, Mikael Landén, Lina Jonsson, Bertram Müller-Myhsok, Jordan W Smoller, Elisabeth B Binder, Tanja M Brückl, Darina Czamara, Sandra Van der Auwera, Hans J Grabe, Georg Homuth, Carsten O Schmidt, James B Potash, Raymond J DePaulo, Fernando S Goes, Dean F MacKinnon, Francis M Mondimore, Myrna M Weissman, Jianxin Shi, Mark A Frye, Joanna M Biernacka, Andreas Reif, Stephanie H Witt, René R Kahn, Marco M Boks, Michael J Owen, Katherine Gordon-Smith, Brittany L Mitchell, Nicholas G Martin, Sarah E Medland, Lisa Jones, James A Knowles, Douglas F Levinson, Michael C O'Donovan, Cathryn M Lewis, Gerome Breen, Thomas Werge, Andrew J Schork, Roel Ophoff, Stephan Ripke, Loes Olde Loohuis
BACKGROUND: Accurate diagnosis of bipolar disorder (BD) is difficult in clinical practice, with an average delay between symptom onset and diagnosis of about 7 years. A key reason is that the first manic episode is often preceded by a depressive one, making it difficult to distinguish BD from unipolar major depressive disorder (MDD). AIMS: Here, we use genome-wide association analyses (GWAS) to identify differential genetic factors and to develop predictors based on polygenic risk scores that may aid early differential diagnosis...
January 30, 2024: medRxiv