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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Feb 4.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Med. 2017 Jun 29;48(2):305–314. doi: 10.1017/S0033291717001696

Table 2:

Associations of polygenic risk score for schizophrenia with being born in the capital and living in the capital at age 15, compared to being born or living in rural areas

Place of birth
Capital
N (%)
Rural areas1
N (%)
Model 12
OR (95% CI)
Model 23
OR (95% CI)
Model 34
OR (95% CI)
Polygenic risk score5, mean (SD) 0.06 (0.89) -0.18 (0.85) 1.14 (1.00,1.31) 1.10 (0.95,1.26) 1.09 (0.95,1.26)
Parental history of mental disorders
 Schizophrenia or bipolar disorder 32 (7.75) 34 (2.99) 2.81 (1.68,4.68) 2.75 (1.57,4.81) 2.78 (1.58,4.91)
 Other mental disorders 83 (20.10) 171 (15.01) 1.58 (1.17,2.12) 1.59 (1.17,2.16) 1.55 (1.13,2.12)
 No diagnosis of mental disorders 298 (72.15) 934 (82.00) 1.00 Ref 1.00 Ref 1.00 Ref
Place of residence at age 156
Capital
N (%)
Rural areas1
N (%)
Model 1
OR (95% CI)
Model 2
OR (95% CI)
Model 3
OR (95% CI)
Polygenic risk score5, mean (SD) 0.13 (0.91) -0.19 (0.84) 1.24 (1.06,1.46) 1.20 (1.02,1.41) 1.19 (1.01,1.40)
Parental history of mental disorders
Schizophrenia or bipolar disorder 17 (6.14) 45 (3.71) 1.90 (1.05,3.42) 1.86 (1.00,3.45) 1.90 (1.02,3.53)
Other mental disorders 67 (24.19) 189 (15.57) 1.79 (1.30,2.47) 1.73 (1.24,2.42) 1.71 (1.21,2.41)
No diagnosis of mental disorders 193 (69.68) 980 (80.72) 1.00 Ref 1.00 Ref 1.00 Ref

Note: Analysis includes only those residing in the lowest and highest levels of urbanicity at either birth or age 15.

1

Municipalities in Denmark where largest town has less than 10,000 inhabitants.

2

Model 1: Adjusted for sex, age, year of birth, and the first 10 principal components.

3

Model 2: Model 1, plus polygenic risk score and parental history of mental disorder are adjusted for one another.

4

Model 3: Model 2 additionally adjusted for parental place of birth and paternal age at childbirth.

5

Normalized to the sample

6

Only those aged 15 or older at the time of matching are considered for the analysis with place of residence at age 15.