The Genetic Architecture of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Contribution of Liability to OCD From Alleles Across the Frequency Spectrum.
Behrang MahjaniLambertus KleiManuel MattheisenMatthew W HalvorsenAbraham ReichenbergKathryn RoederNancy L PedersenJulia BobergElles de SchipperCynthia M BulikMikael LandénBengt FundínDavid Mataix-ColsSven SandinChristina M HultmanJames J CrowleyJoseph D BuxbaumChristian RückBernie DevlinDorothy E GricePublished in: The American journal of psychiatry (2021)
These results indicate that common inherited risk variation (MAF ≥0.01) accounts for most of the heritable variation in OCD. SNPs with low MAF contribute meaningfully to the heritability of OCD, and the results are consistent with expectation under the "infinitesimal model" (also referred to as the "polygenic model"), where risk is influenced by a large number of loci across the genome and across MAF bins.