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Record W4412412046 · doi:10.1101/2025.07.13.25331392

Characterization of the suicide attempt-associated chromosome 7 locus

2025· preprint· en· W4412412046 on OpenAlexafffund
Laura M. Fiori, Anjali Chawla, Malosree Maitra, Corina Nagy, Gustavo Turecki

Bibliographic record

VenuemedRxiv · 2025
Typepreprint
Languageen
FieldNeuroscience
TopicTryptophan and brain disorders
Canadian institutionsMcGill UniversityDouglas Mental Health University Institute
FundersFonds de Recherche du Québec - SantéCanadian Institutes of Health ResearchNational Institutes of Health
KeywordsSNPGeneticsLocus (genetics)BiologyFOXP2HaplotypeGenome-wide association studyGenetic associationGeneGenotypeSingle-nucleotide polymorphismTranscription factor

Abstract

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Suicide is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Although suicidal behaviors demonstrate high heritability, identifying the underlying genetic factors has been challenging. Recent genome-wide association studies for suicidal behavior identified a SNP on chromosome 7, rs62474683, which was the most significantly associated SNP. As this SNP is intergenic, the mechanism by which it may be related to suicidal behaviors is unclear. In order to determine the potential functional effects of the rs62474683 genotype, and how it may be related to suicidal behavior, we ascertained expression of genes within a 1.8Mbp region surrounding this SNP in two brain regions in individuals who died by suicide, and investigated the relationship between genetic variation and gene expression. Additionally, we explored, at the single cell level, the effect of the variant on gene expression and chromatin accessibility. While we found several genes displaying differential expression, Forkhead box P2 (FOXP2) was the most consistently altered in brains of individuals who died by suicide. and its expression was related to rs62474683 genotype. Furthermore, the relationship between FOXP2 expression and suicide appeared to be both brain region- and cell type-specific. Finally, we found evidence for a direct relationship between the region containing rs62474683 and FOXP2, and identified Homeobox family transcription factors as potential mediators of the relationship between FOXP2 and the rs62474683 SNP. In conclusion, our study provides evidence for a functional relationship between the most significant suicide attempt-associated locus to date and genes displaying differential expression in individuals who died by suicide.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.002
Threshold uncertainty score0.007

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.028
GPT teacher head0.265
Teacher spread0.236 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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