Cytomegalovirus antibodies are associated with mood disorders, suicide, markers of neuroinflammation, and microglia activation in postmortem brain samples

Author:

Zheng Haixia1ORCID,Webster Maree2ORCID,Weickert Cynthia3,Beasley Clare4,Paulus Martin5ORCID,Yolken Robert6,Savitz Jonathan1ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Laureate Institute for Brain Research

2. Stanley Medical Research Institute

3. Neuroscience Research Australia

4. University of British Columbia

5. Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, USA

6. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Abstract

Abstract Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is a common, neurotrophic herpesvirus that can be reactivated by inflammation and cause neurological disease. CMV replication can in turn worsen inflammation, raising the possibility that poorly controlled CMV infections may contribute to the neuroinflammation underlying some psychiatric disorders. We investigated whether the presence of anti-CMV antibodies in blood were associated with mental illness, suicide, neuroinflammation, and microglial density in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in postmortem samples. Data (n = 114 with schizophrenia; n = 78 with bipolar disorder; n = 87 with depression; n = 85 controls) were obtained from the Stanley Medical Research Institute. Gene expression data from a subset of 82 cases were categorized into “high” (n = 30), and “low” (n = 52) inflammation groups based on a recursive two-step cluster analysis using expression data for four inflammation-related genes. Measurements of the density of non-ramified and ramified microglia were available for an independent subset of 51 samples. All analyses controlled for age, sex, ethnicity, postmortem interval, and pH. CMV seropositivity significantly increased the odds of a mood disorder diagnosis (bipolar disorder: OR = 2.49; major depression: OR = 2.62) and among the psychiatric cases, of suicide (OR = 2.21). Samples in the upper tercile of anti-CMV antibody titers were more likely to be members of the “high” inflammation group (OR = 4.41). CMV positive cases also showed an increased ratio of non-ramified to ramified microglia in layer I of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (Cohen’s d = 0.81). The results raise the possibility that the reactivation of CMV contributes to the neuroinflammation that underlies some cases of psychiatric disorders.

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