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Schizophrenia risk from complex variation of complement component 4

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  • Aswin Sekar

    (Harvard Medical School
    Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
    MD-PhD Program, Harvard Medical School)

  • Allison R. Bialas

    (F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
    Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital)

  • Heather de Rivera

    (Harvard Medical School
    Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard)

  • Avery Davis

    (Harvard Medical School
    Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard)

  • Timothy R. Hammond

    (F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School)

  • Nolan Kamitaki

    (Harvard Medical School
    Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard)

  • Katherine Tooley

    (Harvard Medical School
    Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard)

  • Jessy Presumey

    (Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital)

  • Matthew Baum

    (Harvard Medical School
    Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
    MD-PhD Program, Harvard Medical School
    F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School)

  • Vanessa Van Doren

    (Harvard Medical School)

  • Giulio Genovese

    (Harvard Medical School
    Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard)

  • Samuel A. Rose

    (Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard)

  • Robert E. Handsaker

    (Harvard Medical School
    Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard)

  • Mark J. Daly

    (Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
    Analytical and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital)

  • Michael C. Carroll

    (Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital)

  • Beth Stevens

    (Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
    F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School)

  • Steven A. McCarroll

    (Harvard Medical School
    Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard)

Abstract

Schizophrenia is a heritable brain illness with unknown pathogenic mechanisms. Schizophrenia’s strongest genetic association at a population level involves variation in the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) locus, but the genes and molecular mechanisms accounting for this have been challenging to identify. Here we show that this association arises in part from many structurally diverse alleles of the complement component 4 (C4) genes. We found that these alleles generated widely varying levels of C4A and C4B expression in the brain, with each common C4 allele associating with schizophrenia in proportion to its tendency to generate greater expression of C4A. Human C4 protein localized to neuronal synapses, dendrites, axons, and cell bodies. In mice, C4 mediated synapse elimination during postnatal development. These results implicate excessive complement activity in the development of schizophrenia and may help explain the reduced numbers of synapses in the brains of individuals with schizophrenia.

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  • Aswin Sekar & Allison R. Bialas & Heather de Rivera & Avery Davis & Timothy R. Hammond & Nolan Kamitaki & Katherine Tooley & Jessy Presumey & Matthew Baum & Vanessa Van Doren & Giulio Genovese & Samue, 2016. "Schizophrenia risk from complex variation of complement component 4," Nature, Nature, vol. 530(7589), pages 177-183, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:530:y:2016:i:7589:d:10.1038_nature16549
    DOI: 10.1038/nature16549
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