TY - JOUR
T1 - Sleep and schizophrenia polygenic scores in non-affective and affective psychotic disorders
AU - Cederlöf, Erik
AU - Holm, Minna
AU - Kämpe, Anders
AU - Ahola-Olli, Ari
AU - Kantojärvi, Katri
AU - Lähteenvuo, Markku
AU - Ahti, Johan
AU - Hietala, Jarmo
AU - Häkkinen, Katja
AU - Isometsä, Erkki
AU - Tuulio-Henriksson, Annamari
AU - Kampman, Olli
AU - Lahdensuo, Kaisla
AU - Lönnqvist, Jouko
AU - Tiihonen, Jari
AU - Turunen, Hannu
AU - Wegelius, Asko
AU - Veijola, Juha
AU - Kieseppä, Tuula
AU - Palotie, Aarno
AU - Paunio, Tiina
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press.
PY - 2025/4/15
Y1 - 2025/4/15
N2 - Background Sleep problems are common in psychotic disorders and are associated with worse quality of life and disease prognosis. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have revealed genetic influences for schizophrenia and sleep, but polygenic scores (PGSs) for sleep traits have not been evaluated systematically in patients with psychotic disorders. Methods This study investigated the associations between PGSs for sleep traits (insomnia, PGSINS; sleep duration, PGSSD; short sleep duration, PGSSS; long sleep duration; PGSLS), diurnal preference (eveningness, PGSME), and schizophrenia (PGSSZ) with clinical features of psychotic disorders in the Finnish SUPER study comprising 8,232 patients with psychotic disorders. The measures included self-reported sleep and well-being, cognitive assessments, clozapine use, and functional outcomes. Using FinnGen data of 356,077 individuals, we analyzed the distributions of PGSs in psychotic and bipolar disorders and the general population. Results PGSINS associated with more sleep problems and worse well-being (e.g. worse health-related quality of life [β = -0.07, CI = -0.09, -0.05, p < .001]). High PGSSZ is associated with better sleep quality, worse clinical outcomes, and performance in cognitive tests (e.g. more errors in paired-associated learning [β = 0.07, CI = 0.04, 0.09, p < .001]). PGSINS was higher in affective psychotic and bipolar disorders, while PGSSD and PGSME were higher in schizophrenia as compared with individuals with no psychiatric disorders. Conclusion Genetic risks for sleep and diurnal preference vary between non-affective psychosis, affective psychosis, and the general population. The findings in this study emphasize the heterogeneity in genetic etiology of the objective features of disease severity and the more subjective measures related to well-being and self-reported measures of sleep.
AB - Background Sleep problems are common in psychotic disorders and are associated with worse quality of life and disease prognosis. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have revealed genetic influences for schizophrenia and sleep, but polygenic scores (PGSs) for sleep traits have not been evaluated systematically in patients with psychotic disorders. Methods This study investigated the associations between PGSs for sleep traits (insomnia, PGSINS; sleep duration, PGSSD; short sleep duration, PGSSS; long sleep duration; PGSLS), diurnal preference (eveningness, PGSME), and schizophrenia (PGSSZ) with clinical features of psychotic disorders in the Finnish SUPER study comprising 8,232 patients with psychotic disorders. The measures included self-reported sleep and well-being, cognitive assessments, clozapine use, and functional outcomes. Using FinnGen data of 356,077 individuals, we analyzed the distributions of PGSs in psychotic and bipolar disorders and the general population. Results PGSINS associated with more sleep problems and worse well-being (e.g. worse health-related quality of life [β = -0.07, CI = -0.09, -0.05, p < .001]). High PGSSZ is associated with better sleep quality, worse clinical outcomes, and performance in cognitive tests (e.g. more errors in paired-associated learning [β = 0.07, CI = 0.04, 0.09, p < .001]). PGSINS was higher in affective psychotic and bipolar disorders, while PGSSD and PGSME were higher in schizophrenia as compared with individuals with no psychiatric disorders. Conclusion Genetic risks for sleep and diurnal preference vary between non-affective psychosis, affective psychosis, and the general population. The findings in this study emphasize the heterogeneity in genetic etiology of the objective features of disease severity and the more subjective measures related to well-being and self-reported measures of sleep.
KW - cognition
KW - polygenic scores
KW - psychotic disorders
KW - schizophrenia
KW - sleep
KW - 3124 Neurology and psychiatry
U2 - 10.1017/S0033291725000844
DO - 10.1017/S0033291725000844
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:105002750986
SN - 0033-2917
VL - 55
JO - Psychological Medicine
JF - Psychological Medicine
M1 - e117
ER -