Associations between brain gene expression perturbations implicated by COVID-19 and psychiatric disorders
Yan Gao1, Kai Chen1, Jia-Ning Liu1
1Department of Bioinformatics, School of Life Sciences, Shandong First Medical University & Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Tai'an, China.
Background:
Currently, there is increasing evidence from clinic, epidemiology, as well as neuroimaging, demonstrating neuropsychiatric abnormalities in COVID-19, however, whether there were associations between brain changes caused by COVID-19 and genetic susceptibility of psychiatric disorders was still unknown.
Methods:
In this study, we performed a meta-analysis to investigate these associations by combing single-cell RNA sequencing datasets of brain tissues of COVID-19 and genome-wide association study summary statistics of psychiatric disorders.
Results:
The analysis demonstrated that among ten psychiatric disorders, gene expression perturbations implicated by COVID-19 in excitatory neurons of choroid plexus were significantly associated with schizophrenia.
Conclusions:
Our analysis might provide insights for the underlying mechanism of the psychiatric consequence of COVID-19.
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