Novel genetic loci associated with hippocampal volume

• Main Authors: Derrek P. Hibar, Hieab H. H. Adams, Neda Jahanshad, Ganesh Chauhan, Jason L. Stein, Edith Hofer, Miguel E. Renteria, Joshua C. Bis, Alejandro Arias-Vasquez, M. Kamran Ikram, Sylvane Desrivières, Meike W. Vernooij, Lucija Abramovic, Saud Alhusaini, Najaf Amin, Micael Andersson, Konstantinos Arfanakis, Benjamin S. Aribisala, Nicola J. Armstrong, Lavinia Athanasiu, Tomas Axelsson, Ashley H. Beecham, Alexa Beiser, Manon Bernard, Susan H. Blanton, Marc M. Bohlken, Marco P. Boks, Janita Bralten, Adam M. Brickman, Owen Carmichael, M. Mallar Chakravarty, Qiang Chen, Christopher R. K. Ching, Vincent Chouraki, Gabriel Cuellar-Partida, Fabrice Crivello, Anouk Den Braber, Nhat Trung Doan, Stefan Ehrlich, Sudheer Giddaluru, Aaron L. Goldman, Rebecca F. Gottesman, Oliver Grimm, Michael E. Griswold, Tulio Guadalupe, Boris A. Gutman, Johanna Hass, Unn K. Haukvik, David Hoehn, Avram J. Holmes, Martine Hoogman, Deborah Janowitz, Tianye Jia, Kjetil N. Jørgensen, Nazanin Karbalai, Dalia Kasperaviciute, Sungeun Kim, Marieke Klein, Bernd Kraemer, Phil H. Lee, David C. M. Liewald, Lorna M. Lopez, Michelle Luciano, Christine Macare, Andre F. Marquand, Mar Matarin, Karen A. Mather, Manuel Mattheisen, David R. McKay, Yuri Milaneschi, Susana Muñoz Maniega, Kwangsik Nho, Allison C. Nugent, Paul Nyquist, Loes M. Olde Loohuis, Jaap Oosterlaan, Martina Papmeyer, Lukas Pirpamer, Benno Pütz, Adaikalavan Ramasamy, Jennifer S. Richards, Shannon L. Risacher, Roberto Roiz-Santiañez, Nanda Rommelse, Stefan Ropele, Emma J. Rose, Natalie A. Royle, Tatjana Rundek, Philipp G. Sämann, Arvin Saremi, Claudia L. Satizabal, Lianne Schmaal, Andrew J. Schork, Li Shen, Jean Shin, Elena Shumskaya, Albert V. Smith, Emma Sprooten, Lachlan T. Strike, Alexander Teumer, Diana Tordesillas-Gutierrez, Roberto Toro, Daniah Trabzuni, Stella Trompet, Dhananjay Vaidya, Jeroen Van der Grond, Sven J. Van der Lee, Dennis Van der Meer, Marjolein M. J. Van Donkelaar, Kristel R. Van Eijk, Theo G. M. Van Erp, Daan Van Rooij, Esther Walton, Lars T. Westlye, Christopher D. Whelan, Beverly G. Windham, Anderson M. Winkler, Katharina Wittfeld, Girma Woldehawariat, Christiane Wolf, Thomas Wolfers, Lisa R. Yanek, Jingyun Yang, Alex Zijdenbos, Marcel P. Zwiers, Ingrid Agartz, Laura Almasy, David Ames, Philippe Amouyel, Ole A. Andreassen, Sampath Arepalli, Amelia A. Assareh, Sandra Barral, Mark E. Bastin, Diane M. Becker, James T. Becker, David A. Bennett, John Blangero, Hans van Bokhoven, Dorret I. Boomsma, Henry Brodaty, Rachel M. Brouwer, Han G. Brunner, Randy L. Buckner, Jan K. Buitelaar, Kazima B. Bulayeva, Wiepke Cahn, Vince D. Calhoun, Dara M. Cannon, Gianpiero L. Cavalleri, Ching-Yu Cheng, Sven Cichon, Mark R. Cookson, Aiden Corvin, Benedicto Crespo-Facorro, Joanne E. Curran, Michael Czisch, Anders M. Dale, Gareth E. Davies, Anton J. M. De Craen, Eco J. C. De Geus, Philip L. De Jager, Greig I. De Zubicaray, Ian J. Deary, Stéphanie Debette, Charles DeCarli, Norman Delanty, Chantal Depondt, Anita DeStefano, Allissa Dillman, Srdjan Djurovic, Gary Donohoe, Wayne C. Drevets, Ravi Duggirala, Thomas D. Dyer, Christian Enzinger, Susanne Erk, Thomas Espeseth, Iryna O. Fedko, Guillén Fernández, Luigi Ferrucci, Simon E. Fisher, Debra A. Fleischman, Ian Ford, Myriam Fornage, Tatiana M. Foroud, Peter T. Fox, Clyde Francks, Masaki Fukunaga, J. Raphael Gibbs, David C. Glahn, Randy L. Gollub, Harald H. H. Göring, Robert C. Green, Oliver Gruber, Vilmundur Gudnason, Sebastian Guelfi, Asta K. Håberg, Narelle K. Hansell, John Hardy, Catharina A. Hartman, Ryota Hashimoto, Katrin Hegenscheid, Andreas Heinz, Stephanie Le Hellard, Dena G. Hernandez, Dirk J. Heslenfeld, Beng-Choon Ho, Pieter J. Hoekstra, Wolfgang Hoffmann, Albert Hofman, Florian Holsboer, Georg Homuth, Norbert Hosten, Jouke-Jan Hottenga, Matthew Huentelman, Hilleke E. Hulshoff Pol, Masashi Ikeda, Clifford R. Jack Jr, Mark Jenkinson, Robert Johnson, Erik G. Jönsson, J. Wouter Jukema, René S. Kahn, Ryota Kanai, Iwona Kloszewska, David S. Knopman, Peter Kochunov, John B. Kwok, Stephen M. Lawrie, Hervé Lemaître, Xinmin Liu, Dan L. Longo, Oscar L. Lopez, Simon Lovestone, Oliver Martinez, Jean-Luc Martinot, Venkata S. Mattay, Colm McDonald, Andrew M. McIntosh, Francis J. McMahon, Katie L. McMahon, Patrizia Mecocci, Ingrid Melle, Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, Sebastian Mohnke, Grant W. Montgomery, Derek W. Morris, Thomas H. Mosley, Thomas W. Mühleisen, Bertram Müller-Myhsok, Michael A. Nalls, Matthias Nauck, Thomas E. Nichols, Wiro J. Niessen, Markus M. Nöthen, Lars Nyberg, Kazutaka Ohi, Rene L. Olvera, Roel A. Ophoff, Massimo Pandolfo, Tomas Paus, Zdenka Pausova, Brenda W. J. H. Penninx, G. Bruce Pike, Steven G. Potkin, Bruce M. Psaty, Simone Reppermund, Marcella Rietschel, Joshua L. Roffman, Nina Romanczuk-Seiferth, Jerome I. Rotter, Mina Ryten, Ralph L. Sacco, Perminder S. Sachdev, Andrew J. Saykin, Reinhold Schmidt, Helena Schmidt, Peter R. Schofield, Sigurdur Sigursson, Andrew Simmons, Andrew Singleton, Sanjay M. Sisodiya, Colin Smith, Jordan W. Smoller, Hilkka Soininen, Vidar M. Steen, David J. Stott, Jessika E. Sussmann, Anbupalam Thalamuthu, Arthur W. Toga, Bryan J. Traynor, Juan Troncoso, Magda Tsolaki, Christophe Tzourio, Andre G. Uitterlinden, Maria C. Valdés Hernández, Marcel Van der Brug, Aad van der Lugt, Nic J. A. van der Wee, Neeltje E. M. Van Haren, Dennis van ’t Ent, Marie-Jose Van Tol, Badri N. Vardarajan, Bruno Vellas, Dick J. Veltman, Henry Völzke, Henrik Walter, Joanna M. Wardlaw, Thomas H. Wassink, Michael E. Weale, Daniel R. Weinberger, Michael W. Weiner, Wei Wen, Eric Westman, Tonya White, Tien Y. Wong, Clinton B. Wright, Ronald H. Zielke, Alan B. Zonderman, Nicholas G. Martin, Cornelia M. Van Duijn, Margaret J. Wright, W. T. Longstreth, Gunter Schumann, Hans J. Grabe, Barbara Franke, Lenore J. Launer, Sarah E. Medland, Sudha Seshadri, Paul M. Thompson, M. Arfan Ikram
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-01-01
• Series: Nature Communications
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13624

The hippocampus in mammalian brain varies in size across individuals. Here, Hibar and colleagues perform a genome-wide association meta-analysis to find six genetic loci with significant association to hippocampus volume.