title: Association between autozygosity and major depression: stratification due to religious assortment.
abstract: The effects of inbreeding on the health of offspring can be studied by measuring genome-wide autozygosity as the proportion of the genome in runs of homozygosity (F roh) and relate F roh to outcomes such as psychiatric phenotypes. To successfully conduct these studies, the main patterns of variation for genome-wide autozygosity between and within populations should be well understood and accounted for. Within population variation was investigated in the Dutch population by comparing autozygosity between religious and non-religious groups. The Netherlands have a history of societal segregation and assortment based on religious affiliation, which may have increased parental relatedness within religious groups. Religion has been associated with several psychiatric phenotypes, such as major depressive disorder (MDD). We investigated whether there is an association between autozygosity and MDD, and the extent to which this association can be explained by religious affiliation. All F roh analyses included adjustment for ancestry-informative principal components (PCs) and geographic factors. Religious affiliation was significantly associated with autozygosity, showing that F roh has the ability to capture within population differences that are not captured by ancestry-informative PCs or geographic factors. The non-religious group had significantly lower F roh values and significantly more MDD cases, leading to a nominally significant negative association between autozygosity and depression. After accounting for religious affiliation, MDD was not associated with F roh, indicating that the relation between MDD and inbreeding was due to stratification. This study shows how past religious assortment and recent secularization can have genetic consequences in a relatively small country. This warrants accounting for the historical social context and its effects on genetic variation in association studies on psychiatric and other related traits.
authors: Department of Biological Psychology, Netherlands Twin Register, VU University Amsterdam, Van der Boechorststraat 1, 1081 BT, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, a.abdellaoui@vu.nl.
authors: Abdel
authors: A
authors: Abdellaoui
authors: Jouke-Jan
authors: JJ
authors: Hottenga
authors: Xiangjun
authors: X
authors: Xiao
authors: Paul
authors: P
authors: Scheet
authors: Erik A
authors: EA
authors: Ehli
authors: Gareth E
authors: GE
authors: Davies
authors: James J
authors: JJ
authors: Hudziak
authors: Dirk J A
authors: DJ
authors: Smit
authors: Meike
authors: M
authors: Bartels
authors: Gonneke
authors: G
authors: Willemsen
authors: Andrew
authors: A
authors: Brooks
authors: Patrick F
authors: PF
authors: Sullivan
authors: Johannes H
authors: JH
authors: Smit
authors: Eco J
authors: EJ
authors: de Geus
authors: Brenda W J H
authors: BW
authors: Penninx
authors: Dorret I
authors: DI
authors: Boomsma
mesh_terms: D003241:Consanguinity; D003865:Major Depressive Disorder / Q000235:genetics*; D020022:Genetic Predisposition to Disease / Q000235:genetics*; D014644:Genetic Variation; D005828:Genetics, Population; D006720:Homozygote; D006801:Humans; D009426:Netherlands / Q000208:ethnology; D012067:Religion; D035621:Secularism
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