Familial aggregation analysis of cognitive performance in early-onset bipolar disorder

Autor: Sara Lera-Miguel, Panagiotis Ferentinos, Lourdes Fañanás, Rosa Calvo, Luisa Lázaro, Jordi Vallespir Soler, Mar Fatjó-Vilas
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: European childadolescent psychiatry. 29(12)
ISSN: 1435-165X
Popis: We analysed the familial aggregation (familiality) of cognitive dimensions and explored their role as liability markers for early-onset bipolar disorder (EOBD). The sample comprised 99 subjects from 26 families, each with an offspring diagnosed with EOBD. Four cognitive dimensions were assessed: reasoning skills; attention and working memory; memory; and executive functions. Their familiality was investigated in the total sample and in a subset of healthy relatives. The intra-family resemblance score (IRS), a family-based index of the similarity of cognitive performance among family members, was calculated. Familiality was detected for the attention and working memory (AW) dimension in the total sample (ICC = 0.37, p = 0.0004) and in the subsample of healthy relatives (ICC = 0.37, p = 0.016). The IRS reflected that there are families with similar AW mean scores (either high or low) and families with heterogeneous scores. Families with the most common background for the AW dimension (IRS > 0) were selected and dichotomized in two groups according to the mean family AW score. This allowed differentiating families whose members had similar high scores than those with similar low scores: both patients (t = − 4.82, p = 0.0005) and relatives (t = − 5.04, p
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