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Gene expression imputation provides clinical and biological insights into treatment-resistant schizophrenia polygenic risk
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Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have revealed the polygenic nature of treatment-resistant schizophrenia TRS. Gene expression imputation allowed the translation of GWAS results into regulatory mechanisms and the construction of gene expression (GReX) risk scores (GReX-RS). In the present study we computed GReX-RS from the largest GWAS of TRS to assess its association with clinical features. We perform transcriptome imputation in the largest GWAS of TRS to find GReX associated with TRS using brain tissues. Then, for each tissue, we constructed a GReX-RS of the identified genes in a sample of 254 genotyped first episode of psychosis (FEP) patients to test its association with clinical phenotypes, including clinical symptomatology, global functioning and cognitive performance. Our analysis provides evidence that the polygenic basis of TRS includes genetic variants that modulate the expression of certain genes in certain brain areas (substantia nigra, hippocampus, amygdala and frontal cortex), which at the same time are related to clinical features in FEP patients, mainly persistence of negative symptoms and cognitive alterations in sustained attention, which have also been suggested as clinical predictors of TRS. Our results provide a clinical explanation of the polygenic architecture of TRS and give more insight into the biological mechanisms underlying TRS.
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PROHENS COLL, Llucia, et al. Gene expression imputation provides clinical and biological insights into treatment-resistant schizophrenia polygenic risk. Psychiatry Research. 2024. Vol. 332. ISSN 0165-1781. [consulted: 15 of June of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/222664