About the Authors

Andreas J. Forstner

Contributed equally to this work with: Andreas J. Forstner, Julian Hecker

Affiliations Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Department of Genomics, Life & Brain Center, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Department of Psychiatry (UPK), University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Human Genomics Research Group, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Institute of Medical Genetics and Pathology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Julian Hecker

Contributed equally to this work with: Andreas J. Forstner, Julian Hecker

Affiliation Institute for Genomics Mathematics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Andrea Hofmann

Affiliations Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Department of Genomics, Life & Brain Center, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Institute of Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Anna Maaser

Affiliations Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Department of Genomics, Life & Brain Center, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Céline S. Reinbold

Affiliations Human Genomics Research Group, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Institute of Medical Genetics and Pathology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Thomas W. Mühleisen

Affiliations Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Department of Genomics, Life & Brain Center, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Human Genomics Research Group, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Institute of Medical Genetics and Pathology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1), Research Center Juelich, Juelich, Germany

Markus Leber

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry & Psychotherapy, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Jana Strohmaier

Affiliation Department of Genetic Epidemiology in Psychiatry, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim/University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany

Franziska Degenhardt

Affiliations Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Department of Genomics, Life & Brain Center, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Jens Treutlein

Affiliation Department of Genetic Epidemiology in Psychiatry, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim/University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany

Manuel Mattheisen

Affiliations Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Department of Biomedicine and Centre for integrative Sequencing, iSEQ, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, The Lundbeck Foundation Initiative for integrative Psychiatric Research, iPSYCH, Aarhus and Copenhagen, Denmark

Johannes Schumacher

Affiliations Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Department of Genomics, Life & Brain Center, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Fabian Streit

Affiliation Department of Genetic Epidemiology in Psychiatry, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim/University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany

Sandra Meier

Affiliations Department of Genetic Epidemiology in Psychiatry, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim/University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany, The Lundbeck Foundation Initiative for integrative Psychiatric Research, iPSYCH, Aarhus and Copenhagen, Denmark, National Centre Register-Based Research, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

Stefan Herms

Affiliations Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Department of Genomics, Life & Brain Center, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Human Genomics Research Group, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Institute of Medical Genetics and Pathology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Per Hoffmann

Affiliations Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Department of Genomics, Life & Brain Center, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Human Genomics Research Group, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Institute of Medical Genetics and Pathology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

André Lacour

Affiliation German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn, Germany

Stephanie H. Witt

Affiliation Department of Genetic Epidemiology in Psychiatry, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim/University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany

Andreas Reif

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Bertram Müller-Myhsok

Affiliations Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany, Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (SyNergy), Munich, Germany, University of Liverpool, Institute of Translational Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Susanne Lucae

Affiliation Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany

Wolfgang Maier

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Markus Schwarz

Affiliation Psychiatric Center Nordbaden, Wiesloch, Germany

Helmut Vedder

Affiliation Psychiatric Center Nordbaden, Wiesloch, Germany

Jutta Kammerer-Ciernioch

Affiliation Center of Psychiatry Weinsberg, Weinsberg, Germany

Andrea Pfennig

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Michael Bauer

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Martin Hautzinger

Affiliation Department of Psychology, Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Susanne Moebus

Affiliation Institute of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Lorena M. Schenk

Affiliations Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Department of Genomics, Life & Brain Center, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Sascha B. Fischer

Affiliations Human Genomics Research Group, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Institute of Medical Genetics and Pathology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Sugirthan Sivalingam

Affiliations Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Department of Genomics, Life & Brain Center, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Piotr M. Czerski

Affiliation Laboratory of Psychiatric Genetics, Department of Psychiatry, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland

Joanna Hauser

Affiliation Laboratory of Psychiatric Genetics, Department of Psychiatry, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland

Jolanta Lissowska

Affiliation Department of Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Centre and Institute of Oncology Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

Neonila Szeszenia-Dabrowska

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine, Lodz, Poland

Paul Brennan

Affiliation Genetic Epidemiology Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France

James D. McKay

Affiliation Genetic Cancer Susceptibility Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France

Adam Wright

Affiliations School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Randwick, Australia, Black Dog Institute, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, Australia

Philip B. Mitchell

Affiliations School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Randwick, Australia, Black Dog Institute, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, Australia

Janice M. Fullerton

Affiliations Neuroscience Research Australia, Sydney, Australia, School of Medical Sciences Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Peter R. Schofield

Affiliations Neuroscience Research Australia, Sydney, Australia, School of Medical Sciences Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Grant W. Montgomery

Affiliation Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR), Brisbane, Australia

Sarah E. Medland

Affiliation Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR), Brisbane, Australia

Scott D. Gordon

Affiliation Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR), Brisbane, Australia

Nicholas G. Martin

Affiliation Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR), Brisbane, Australia

Valery Krasnov

Affiliation Moscow Research Institute of Psychiatry, Moscow, Russian Federation

Alexander Chuchalin

Affiliation Institute of Pulmonology, Russian State Medical University, Moscow, Russian Federation

Gulja Babadjanova

Affiliation Institute of Pulmonology, Russian State Medical University, Moscow, Russian Federation

Galina Pantelejeva

Affiliation Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Mental Health Research Center, Moscow, Russian Federation

Lilia I. Abramova

Affiliation Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Mental Health Research Center, Moscow, Russian Federation

Alexander S. Tiganov

Affiliation Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Mental Health Research Center, Moscow, Russian Federation

Alexey Polonikov

Affiliations Department of Biology, Medical Genetics and Ecology, Kursk State Medical University, Kursk, Russian Federation, Research Institute for Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology, Kursk State Medical University, Kursk, Russian Federation

Elza Khusnutdinova

Affiliations Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Scientific Center of Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa, Russian Federation, Department of Genetics and Fundamental Medicine of Bashkir State University, Ufa, Russian Federation

Martin Alda

Affiliations Department of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, National Institute of Mental Health, Klecany, Czech Republic

Cristiana Cruceanu

Affiliations Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, Department of Human Genetics, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, McGill Group for Suicide Studies & Douglas Research Institute, Montreal, Canada

Guy A. Rouleau

Affiliation Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Gustavo Turecki

Affiliations Department of Human Genetics, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, McGill Group for Suicide Studies & Douglas Research Institute, Montreal, Canada, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Catherine Laprise

Affiliation Département des sciences fondamentales, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC), Saguenay, Canada

Fabio Rivas

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Hospital Regional Universitario, Biomedical Institute of Malaga, Malaga, Spain

Fermin Mayoral

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Hospital Regional Universitario, Biomedical Institute of Malaga, Malaga, Spain

Manolis Kogevinas

Affiliation Center for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), Barcelona, Spain

Maria Grigoroiu-Serbanescu

Affiliation Biometric Psychiatric Genetics Research Unit, Alexandru Obregia Clinical Psychiatric Hospital, Bucharest, Romania

Tim Becker

Affiliations German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn, Germany, Institute for Medical Biometry, Informatics and Epidemiology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Thomas G. Schulze

Affiliation Institute of Psychiatric Phenomics and Genomics, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany

Marcella Rietschel

Affiliation Department of Genetic Epidemiology in Psychiatry, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim/University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany

Sven Cichon

Affiliations Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Department of Genomics, Life & Brain Center, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Human Genomics Research Group, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Institute of Medical Genetics and Pathology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1), Research Center Juelich, Juelich, Germany

Heide Fier

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Institute for Genomics Mathematics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Markus M. Nöthen

markus.noethen@uni-bonn.de

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Department of Genomics, Life & Brain Center, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: AJF J. Hecker HF MMN. Data curation: AJF J. Hecker HF MMN. Formal analysis: AJF J. Hecker AH AM CSR LMS SBF SS MR SC HF MMN. Funding acquisition: MB PBM NGM MA CL MG-S TGS MR SC MMN. Investigation: AJF J. Hecker AH AM CSR TWM ML FD JT MM J. Schumacher FS S. Meier SH PH AL SHW TB HF. Methodology: AJF J. Hecker HF MMN. Project administration: AJF HF MMN. Resources: J. Strohmaier FS AR BM-M SL WM MS HV JK-C A. Pfennig MB MH S. Moebus PMC J. Hauser JL NS-D PB JDM AW PBM JMF PRS GWM SEM SDG NGM VK AC GB GP LIA AST A. Polonikov EK MA CC GAR GT CL FR FM MK MG-S TGS MR MMN. Software: J. Hecker AH AM CSR HF. Supervision: AJF HF MMN. Validation: AJF J. Hecker AM CSR HF MMN. Visualization: AJF J. Hecker AH AM CSR HF MMN. Writing – original draft: AJF J. Hecker AH CSR HF MMN. Writing – review & editing: AC AH AJF AL AM A. Pfennig A. Polonikov AR AST AW BM-M CC CL CSR EK FD FR FM FS GAR GB GP GT GWM HF HV JDM J. Hecker J. Hauser JK-C JL JMF J. Strohmaier J. Schumacher JT LIA LMS MA MB MG-S MH MK ML MM MMN MR MS NGM NS-D PB PBM PH PMC PRS SBF SC SDG SEM SH SHW SL S. Meier S. Moebus SS TB TGS TWM VK WM.