Fernando S Goes, Mehdi Pirooznia, Jennifer S Parla, Melissa Kramer, Elena Ghiban, Senem Mavruk, Yun-Ching Chen, Eric T Monson, Virginia L Willour, Rachel Karchin, Matthew Flickinger, Adam E Locke, Shawn E Levy, Laura J Scott, Michael Boehnke, Eli Stahl, Jennifer L Moran, Christina M Hultman, Mikael Landén, Shaun M Purcell, Pamela Sklar, Peter P Zandi, W Richard McCombie, James B Potash
IMPORTANCE: Complex disorders, such as bipolar disorder (BD), likely result from the influence of both common and rare susceptibility alleles. While common variation has been widely studied, rare variant discovery has only recently become feasible with next-generation sequencing. OBJECTIVE: To utilize a combined family-based and case-control approach to exome sequencing in BD using multiplex families as an initial discovery strategy, followed by association testing in a large case-control meta-analysis...
June 1, 2016: JAMA Psychiatry