Anders Kämpe, Jaana Suvisaari, Markku Lähteenvuo, Tarjinder Singh, Ari Ahola-Olli, Lea Urpa, Willehard Haaki, Jarmo Hietala, Erkki Isometsä, Tuomas Jukuri, Olli Kampman, Tuula Kieseppä, Kaisla Lahdensuo, Jouko Lönnqvist, Teemu Männynsalo, Tiina Paunio, Jussi Niemi-Pynttäri, Kimmo Suokas, Annamari Tuulio-Henriksson, Juha Veijola, Asko Wegelius, Mark Daly, Jacob Taylor, Kenneth S Kendler, Aarno Palotie, Olli Pietiläinen
Genetic factors contribute to the susceptibility of psychotic disorders, but less is known how they affect psychotic disease-course development. Utilizing polygenic scores (PGSs) in combination with longitudinal healthcare data with decades of follow-up we investigated the contributing genetics to psychotic disease-course severity and diagnostic shifts in the SUPER-Finland study, encompassing 10 403 genotyped individuals with a psychotic disorder. To longitudinally track the study participants' past disease-course severity, we created a psychiatric hospitalization burden metric using the full-coverage and nation-wide Finnish in-hospital registry (data from 1969 and onwards)...
April 1, 2024: Molecular Psychiatry