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Kempisty B, Bober A, Łuczak M, Czerski P, Szczepankiewicz A, Hauser J, Jagodziński PP. Distribution of 1298A > C polymorphism of methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase gene in patients with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. Eur Psychiatry 2020; 22:39-43. [PMID: 17188847 DOI: 10.1016/j.eurpsy.2006.11.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2006] [Revised: 11/02/2006] [Accepted: 11/10/2006] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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AbstractWe investigated the genotype frequency of methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) 1298A > C polymorphism in the group of patients with bipolar disorder type I (BDI) (n = 200) and schizophrenia (n = 200) and in the control group (n = 300). Odds ratio (OR) for patients with BD and schizophrenia in 1298CC homozygous state was 3.768 (95% CI = 1.752–8.104); P = 0.0003; (P = 0.0006 after Bonferroni correction) and 2.694; (95% CI = 1.207–6.013); P = 0.0123 (P = 0.0246 after Bonferroni correction), respectively. The stratification of patients based on gender revealed significant association of 1298CC genotype with female patients only with BDI (OR = 7.293; 95% CI = 2.017–26.363; P = 0.0005).Our results confirm association of BD and schizophrenia with the 1p36.3 MTHFR locus and with the methyl group transfer using folate-dependent one-carbon pathway.
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- Bartosz Kempisty
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Medical Sciences, 6 Swiecickiego St., 60-781 Poznan, Poland
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This review provides a comprehensive overview of clinical and molecular genetic as well as pharmacogenetic studies regarding the clinical phenotype of "psychotic depression." Results are discussed with regard to the long-standing debate on categorical vs dimensional disease models of affective and psychotic disorders on a continuum from unipolar depression over bipolar disorder and schizoaffective disorder to schizophrenia. Clinical genetic studies suggest a familial aggregation and a considerable heritability (39%) of psychotic depression partly shared with schizoaffective disorder, schizophrenia, and affective disorders. Molecular genetic studies point to potential risk loci of psychotic depression shared with schizoaffective disorder (1q42, 22q11, 19p13), depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia (6p, 8p22, 10p13-12, 10p14, 13q13-14, 13q32, 18p, 22q11-13) and several vulnerability genes possibly contributing to an increased risk of psychotic symptoms in depression (eg, BDNF, DBH, DTNBP1, DRD2, DRD4, GSK-3beta, MAO-A). Pharmacogenetic studies implicate 5-HTT, TPH1, and DTNBP1 gene variation in the mediation of antidepressant treatment response in psychotic depression. Genetic factors are suggested to contribute to the disease risk of psychotic depression in partial overlap with disorders along the affective-psychotic spectrum. Thus, genetic research focusing on psychotic depression might inspire a more dimensional, neurobiologically and symptom-oriented taxonomy of affective and psychotic disorders challenging the dichotomous Kraepelinian view. Additionally, pharmacogenetic studies might aid in the development of a more personalized treatment of psychotic depression with an individually tailored antidepressive/antipsychotic pharmacotherapy according to genotype.
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- Katharina Domschke
- Department of Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany.
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The contribution of epidemiology to defining the most appropriate approach to genetic research on schizophrenia. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2011. [DOI: 10.1017/s1121189x00000932] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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AbstractPsychosis is thought to have a strong genetic component, but many efforts to discover the underlying putative schizophrenia genes have yielded disappointing results. In fact, no strong associations emerged in the first genome-wide association studies in psychiatry and weakly observed associations were not related to the candidate genes identified in previous studies. These partially successful findings may be explained by the fact that genetic research in psychiatry suffers from confounding issues related to phenotype definition, the considerable degree of phenotypic variability and diagnostic uncertainty, absence of specific neuropathological features and environmental influences. To make progress it is first necessary to deconstruct psychosis based on symptomatology, and then to correlate particular phenotypes with genetic variants. Moreover, it is time to conduct studies that define persistent aspects of the schizophrenic profile that are more likely to represent an underlying biological pathogenesis, as opposed to fluctuating symptoms that are possibly environmentally mediated. In fact, progress in understanding the etiology of schizophrenia will depend upon the availability of good measures of genetic liability as well as relevant environmental exposures during critical periods of an individual's life. If environmental and/or genetic factors are not precisely measured, it is impossible to study their independent effects or interactions.
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Vares M, Saetre P, Deng H, Cai G, Liu X, Hansen T, Rasmussen HB, Werge T, Melle I, Djurovic S, Andreassen OA, Agartz I, Hall H, Terenius L, Jönsson EG. Association between methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) C677T polymorphism and age of onset in schizophrenia. Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 2010; 153B:610-618. [PMID: 19746410 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.b.31030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Different lines of evidence indicate that methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) functional gene polymorphisms, causative in aberrant folate-homocysteine metabolism, are associated with increased vulnerability to several heritable developmental disorders. Opposing views are expressed considering the possible association between MTHFR and susceptibility for schizophrenia. In order to evaluate if age of onset could explain some of this discrepancy we investigated the relationship between two functional MTHFR gene polymorphisms and age at onset in this disorder. Scandinavian patients (n = 820) diagnosed with schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, and schizophreniform disorder were investigated. Two functional MTHFR single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs; rs1801131 and rs1801133) were genotyped and the effect of MTHFR polymorphisms on the age of onset was examined with survival analysis. In an attempt to replicate the findings from the Scandinavian sample, the association between rs1801133 and age at onset was also analyzed in Chinese high-risk families, with two or more affected siblings (n = 243). Among the Scandinavian patients the functional MTHFR SNP rs1801133 (C677T) significantly affected age at onset of schizophrenia in a dose-dependent manner (P = 0.0015), with lower age of onset with increasing numbers of the mutant T-allele. There was no evidence of rs1801131 (A1298C) affecting age of onset in schizophrenia. Within the Chinese high-risk families carriers of the MTHFR 677T allele showed earlier age at onset than siblings being homozygous for the wild-type allele (P = 0.008). The MTHFR C677T polymorphism may play a role as a modifying factor for age of onset in schizophrenia.
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- Maria Vares
- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, HUBIN project, Karolinska Institutet and Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, HUBIN project, Karolinska Institutet and Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Mental Health Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, PR China
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- Laboratory of Molecular Neuropsychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York
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- Mental Health Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, PR China
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- Research Institute of Biological Psychiatry, Mental Health Center Sct. Hans, Copenhagen University Hospital, Roskilde, Denmark
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- Research Institute of Biological Psychiatry, Mental Health Center Sct. Hans, Copenhagen University Hospital, Roskilde, Denmark
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- Research Institute of Biological Psychiatry, Mental Health Center Sct. Hans, Copenhagen University Hospital, Roskilde, Denmark
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- Institute of Psychiatry, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.,Department Psychiatry, Oslo University Hospital, Ullevål, Oslo, Norway
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- Institute of Psychiatry, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.,Department of Medical Genetics, Oslo University Hospital, Ullevål, Oslo, Norway
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- Institute of Psychiatry, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.,Department Psychiatry, Oslo University Hospital, Ullevål, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, HUBIN project, Karolinska Institutet and Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.,Institute of Psychiatry, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.,Department of Psychiatry, Section Vinderen, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, HUBIN project, Karolinska Institutet and Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.,Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, HUBIN project, Karolinska Institutet and Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, HUBIN project, Karolinska Institutet and Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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Zhang C, Xie B, Fang Y, Cheng W, Du Y, Wang D, Yu S. Influence of maternal MTHFR A1298C polymorphism on the risk in offspring of schizophrenia. Brain Res 2010; 1320:130-4. [DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2009.12.049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2009] [Revised: 12/15/2009] [Accepted: 12/16/2009] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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BACKGROUND Straub et al. (2002b) located a susceptibility region for schizophrenia at the DTNBP1 locus. At least 40 studies (including one study in US populations) attempted to replicate this original finding, but the reported findings are highly diverse and at least five pathways by which dysbindin protein might be involved in schizophrenia have been proposed. This study aimed to test the association in two common US populations by using powerful analytic methods. METHODS Six markers at DTNBP1 were genotyped by mass spectroscopy ('MassARRAY' technique) in a sample of 663 individuals, including 346 healthy individuals European-Americans (EAs) and 48 African-Americans (AAs), and 317 individuals with schizophrenia (235 EAs and 82 AAs). Thirty-eight ancestry-informative markers were genotyped in this sample to infer the ancestry proportions. Diplotype, haplotype, genotype, and allele frequency distributions were compared between the cases and controls, controlling for possible population stratification, admixture, and sex-specific effects, and taking interaction effects into account, using a logistic regression analysis (an extended structured association method). RESULTS Conventional case-control comparisons showed that genotypes of the markers P1578 (rs1018381) and P1583 (rs909706) were nominally associated with schizophrenia in EAs and in AAs, respectively. These associations became less or nonsignificant after controlling for population stratification and admixture effects (using structured association or regression analysis), and became nonsignificant after correction for multiple testing. However, regression analysis showed that the common diplotypes (ACCCTT/GCCGCC or GCCGCC/GCCGCC) and the interaction effects of haplotypes GCCGCC/GCCGCC significantly affected risk for schizophrenia in EAs, effects that were modified by sex. Fine-mapping using d or J statistics located the specific markers (d: P1328; J: P1333) closest to the putative risk sites in EAs. CONCLUSION This study shows that DTNBP1 is a risk gene for schizophrenia in EAs. Variation at DTNBP1 may modify risk for schizophrenia in this population.
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Whole genome association study in a homogenous population in Shandong peninsula of China reveals JARID2 as a susceptibility gene for schizophrenia. J Biomed Biotechnol 2009; 2009:536918. [PMID: 19884986 PMCID: PMC2768871 DOI: 10.1155/2009/536918] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2009] [Revised: 07/21/2009] [Accepted: 07/29/2009] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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DNA pooling can provide an economic and efficient way to detect susceptibility loci to complex diseases. We carried out a genome screen with 400 microsatellite markers spaced at approximately 10 cm in two DNA pools consisting of 119 schizophrenia (SZ) patients and 119 controls recruited from a homogenous population in the Chang Le area of the Shandong peninsula of China. Association of D6S289, a dinucleotide repeat polymorphism in the JARID2 gene with SZ, was found and confirmed by individual genotyping (X2 = 17.89; P = .047). In order to refine the signal, we genotyped 14 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) covering JARID2 and the neighboring gene, DNTBP1, in an extended sample of 309 cases and 309 controls from Shandong peninsula (including the samples from the pools). However, rs2235258 and rs9654600 in JARID2 showed association in allelic, genotypic and haplotypic tests with SZ patients from Chang Le area. This was not replicates in the extended sample, we conclude that JARID2 could be a susceptibility gene for SZ.
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The efficacies of clozapine and haloperidol in refractory schizophrenia are related to DTNBP1 variation. Pharmacogenet Genomics 2009; 19:437-46. [PMID: 19369910 DOI: 10.1097/fpc.0b013e32832b9cfc] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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OBJECTIVE The prototypical atypical antipsychotic agent, clozapine, is more efficacious for refractory schizophrenia than the 'typical' antipsychotics, but the mechanism underlying this enhanced efficacy is still under investigation. Since 2002, at least 22 association studies have shown that the DTNBP1 can be associated with the risk for schizophrenia. We hypothesized that DTNBP1 might also influence the response to antipsychotic treatments. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between the DTNBP1 and the effects of clozapine and haloperidol on refractory schizophrenia. METHODS Patients with refractory schizophrenia were assigned to clozapine (n=85) or haloperidol (n=96) and followed for 3 months. Symptom improvement was evaluated by Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale score. Six markers at DTNBP1 and 38 ancestry-informative markers were genotyped in all participants. The relationships between the effects of antipsychotics and the diplotypes, haplotypes, genotypes, and alleles of DTNBP1 were tested by analysis of covariance, analysis of variance, and t-test. RESULTS Patients with diplotype ACCCTC/GTTGCC, genotypes T/T+T/C, or allele T of marker rs742105 (P1333) have better response to clozapine (0.005< or =P< or =0.049), and patients with diplotype ACCCTC/GCCGCC, genotype A/G, or allele A of marker rs909706 (P1583) have better response to haloperidol (0.007< or =P< or =0.080) in European-Americans, African-Americans, and/or the combined sample; European-American patients with diplotype ACCCTC/GCCGCC have worse response to clozapine on positive symptoms (P=0.011). CONCLUSION This study shows that the DTNBP1 gene modulates the effects of both the atypical antipsychotic clozapine and the typical antipsychotic haloperidol. Participants with different DTNBP1 diplotypes, haplotypes, genotypes, or alleles might have different responses to these antipsychotics.
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The search for a genetic basis for schizophrenia has taken a new turn recently with the publication of three reports of various rare copy-number variations that are associated with schizophrenia. While some of the findings may simply disappear as spurious reports, others remain interesting: that is, deletions in the Velocardiofacial syndrome region of chromosome 22, and regions of chromosome 1q21.1 and 15q13.3. These results will gain greater significance if future validation in family studies shows their segregation with illness within families, and when it is understood how the genes containing these variants affect the underlying neurochemistry and neuropathology characteristic of schizophrenia.
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- Lynn E Delisi
- Center for Advanced Brain Imaging, The Nathan S Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Old Orangeburg Road, Orangeburg, New York, NY 10962, USA
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Crespi B. Genomic imprinting in the development and evolution of psychotic spectrum conditions. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 2008; 83:441-93. [PMID: 18783362 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-185x.2008.00050.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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I review and evaluate genetic and genomic evidence salient to the hypothesis that the development and evolution of psychotic spectrum conditions have been mediated in part by alterations of imprinted genes expressed in the brain. Evidence from the genetics and genomics of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depression, Prader-Willi syndrome, Klinefelter syndrome, and other neurogenetic conditions support the hypothesis that the etiologies of psychotic spectrum conditions commonly involve genetic and epigenetic imbalances in the effects of imprinted genes, with a bias towards increased relative effects from imprinted genes with maternal expression or other genes favouring maternal interests. By contrast, autistic spectrum conditions, including Kanner autism, Asperger syndrome, Rett syndrome, Turner syndrome, Angelman syndrome, and Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome, commonly engender increased relative effects from paternally expressed imprinted genes, or reduced effects from genes favouring maternal interests. Imprinted-gene effects on the etiologies of autistic and psychotic spectrum conditions parallel the diametric effects of imprinted genes in placental and foetal development, in that psychotic spectrum conditions tend to be associated with undergrowth and relatively-slow brain development, whereas some autistic spectrum conditions involve brain and body overgrowth, especially in foetal development and early childhood. An important role for imprinted genes in the etiologies of psychotic and autistic spectrum conditions is consistent with neurodevelopmental models of these disorders, and with predictions from the conflict theory of genomic imprinting.
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- Bernard Crespi
- Department of Biosciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby BCV5A1S6, Canada.
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Kristiansson K, Naukkarinen J, Peltonen L. Isolated populations and complex disease gene identification. Genome Biol 2008; 9:109. [PMID: 18771588 PMCID: PMC2575505 DOI: 10.1186/gb-2008-9-8-109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 114] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Isolated populations can be useful for the identification of genes underlying common complex diseases. The utility of genetically isolated populations (population isolates) in the mapping and identification of genes is not only limited to the study of rare diseases; isolated populations also provide a useful resource for studies aimed at improved understanding of the biology underlying common diseases and their component traits. Well characterized human populations provide excellent study samples for many different genetic investigations, ranging from genome-wide association studies to the characterization of interactions between genes and the environment.
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- Kati Kristiansson
- National Public Health Institute and FIMM, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, Helsinki 00300, Finland
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Genome screen of 15 Australian bipolar affective disorder pedigrees supports previously identified loci for bipolar susceptibility genes. Psychiatr Genet 2008; 18:156-61. [DOI: 10.1097/ypg.0b013e3282fa1861] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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DTNBP1 haplotype influences baseline assessment scores of schizophrenic in-patients. Neurosci Lett 2008; 440:150-4. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.05.069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2008] [Revised: 04/30/2008] [Accepted: 05/14/2008] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Le-Niculescu H, McFarland MJ, Ogden CA, Balaraman Y, Patel S, Tan J, Rodd ZA, Paulus M, Geyer MA, Edenberg HJ, Glatt SJ, Faraone SV, Nurnberger JI, Kuczenski R, Tsuang MT, Niculescu AB. Phenomic, convergent functional genomic, and biomarker studies in a stress-reactive genetic animal model of bipolar disorder and co-morbid alcoholism. Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 2008; 147B:134-66. [PMID: 18247375 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.b.30707] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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We had previously identified the clock gene D-box binding protein (Dbp) as a potential candidate gene for bipolar disorder and for alcoholism, using a Convergent Functional Genomics (CFG) approach. Here we report that mice with a homozygous deletion of DBP have lower locomotor activity, blunted responses to stimulants, and gain less weight over time. In response to a chronic stress paradigm, these mice exhibit a diametric switch in these phenotypes. DBP knockout mice are also activated by sleep deprivation, similar to bipolar patients, and that activation is prevented by treatment with the mood stabilizer drug valproate. Moreover, these mice show increased alcohol intake following exposure to stress. Microarray studies of brain and blood reveal a pattern of gene expression changes that may explain the observed phenotypes. CFG analysis of the gene expression changes identified a series of novel candidate genes and blood biomarkers for bipolar disorder, alcoholism, and stress reactivity.
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- H Le-Niculescu
- Laboratory of Neurophenomics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana
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Muntjewerff JW, Gellekink H, den Heijer M, Hoogendoorn MLC, Kahn RS, Sinke RJ, Blom HJ. Polymorphisms in catechol-O-methyltransferase and methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase in relation to the risk of schizophrenia. Eur Neuropsychopharmacol 2008; 18:99-106. [PMID: 17716874 DOI: 10.1016/j.euroneuro.2007.06.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2006] [Revised: 06/19/2007] [Accepted: 06/25/2007] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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BACKGROUND Evidence is emerging for the association of aberrant homocysteine-methylation cycle and increased risk of schizophrenia. METHODS We examined the prevalence of the catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) 324G>A (Val108/158Met) and methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) 677C>T polymorphisms in 252 patients with schizophrenia and 405 control subjects. All subjects were of Dutch ancestry. RESULTS The COMT 324AA genotype was not associated with an increased risk of schizophrenia (odds ratio (OR)=1.38 [95% CI: 0.88-2.16], P=0.162), and the MTHFR 677TT genotype showed a nearly significant increased risk for schizophrenia (OR=1.65 [95% CI: 0.97-2.82], P=0.067). The odds ratio for schizophrenia associated with joint occurrence of the COMT 324AA and MTHFR 677TT genotype was 3.08 (95% CI: 1.08-8.76) (P=0.035). Increasing number of low enzyme activity alleles in the COMT and MTHFR genotype combinations were associated with an increased risk of schizophrenia (test for trend, P=0.017). CONCLUSIONS Our findings do not support a major role for the COMT 324AA and MTHFR 677TT genotype alone, but the combination of both genotypes might increase schizophrenia susceptibility.
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Lang UE, Puls I, Muller DJ, Strutz-Seebohm N, Gallinat J. Molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia. Cell Physiol Biochem 2007; 20:687-702. [PMID: 17982252 DOI: 10.1159/000110430] [Citation(s) in RCA: 183] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 09/11/2007] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Schizophrenia is a complex disorder, where family, twin and adoption studies have been demonstrating a high heritability of the disease and that this disease is not simply defined by several major genes but rather evolves from addition or potentiation of a specific cluster of genes, which subsequently determines the genetic vulnerability of an individual. Linkage and association studies suggest that a genetic vulnerablility, is not forcefully leading to the disease since triggering factors and environmental influences, i.e. birth complications, drug abuse, urban background or time of birth have been identified. This has lead to the assumption that schizophrenia is not only a genetically defined static disorder but a dynamic process leading to dysregulation of multiple pathways. There are several different hypothesis based on several facets of the disease, some of them due to the relatively well-known mechanisms of therapeutic agents. The most widely considered neurodevelopmental hypothesis of schizophrenia integrates environmental influences and causative genes. The dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia is based on the fact that all common treatments involve antidopaminergic mechanisms and genes such as DRD2, DRD3, DARPP-32, BDNF or COMT are closely related to dopaminergic system functioning. The glutamatergic hypothesis of schizophrenia lead recently to a first successful mGlu2/3 receptor agonistic drug and is underpinned by significant findings in genes regulating the glutamatergic system (SLC1A6, SLC1A2 GRIN1, GRIN2A, GRIA1, NRG1, ErbB4, DTNBP1, DAAO, G72/30, GRM3). Correspondingly, GABA has been proposed to modulate the pathophysiology of the disease which is represented by the involvement of genes like GABRA1, GABRP, GABRA6 and Reelin. Moreover, several genes implicating immune, signaling and networking deficits have been reported to be involved in the disease, i.e. DISC1, RGS4, PRODH, DGCR6, ZDHHC8, DGCR2, Akt, CREB, IL-1B, IL-1RN, IL-10, IL-1B. However, molecular findings suggest that a complex interplay between receptors, kinases, proteins and hormones is involved in schizophrenia. In a unifying hypothesis, different cascades merge into another that ultimately lead to the development of symptoms adherent to schizophrenic disorders.
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- Undine E Lang
- Department of Psychiatry, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Campus Mitte, Berlin (Germany).
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Li D, He L. Association study between the dystrobrevin binding protein 1 gene (DTNBP1) and schizophrenia: a meta-analysis. Schizophr Res 2007; 96:112-8. [PMID: 17604607 DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2007.05.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2007] [Revised: 05/07/2007] [Accepted: 05/08/2007] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Positional, functional and association studies have strongly implicated the dystrobrevin binding protein 1 gene (DTNBP1) as a promising novel candidate gene for schizophrenia. Since the first association study was reported, there have been many attempts to replicate it. However the results have been mixed and these subsequent studies have produced negative as well as positive results. To reconcile these conflicting findings and to give a comprehensive picture of the relationship of DTNBP1 and schizophrenia, the current meta-analysis combined all published association studies involving nine polymorphisms up to May 2006. The results (12 studies including 3429 cases, 3376 controls and 721 trios) showed that there were five single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) with p values < 0.05, however, sensitivity analyses showed that only one SNP was consistent across all nine studies (four of the five SNPs became non-significant after removal of one study), indicating that one study may cause the association findings for each of these four SNPs. In conclusion, there is only a weak association of one SNP in DTNBP1 with schizophrenia, which is not significant after multiple testing.
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- Dawei Li
- Bio-X Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200030, China.
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Datta SR, McQuillin A, Puri V, Choudhury K, Thirumalai S, Lawrence J, Pimm J, Bass N, Lamb G, Moorey H, Morgan J, Punukollu B, Kandasami G, Kirwin S, Sule A, Quested D, Curtis D, Gurling HMD. Failure to confirm allelic and haplotypic association between markers at the chromosome 6p22.3 dystrobrevin-binding protein 1 (DTNBP1) locus and schizophrenia. Behav Brain Funct 2007; 3:50. [PMID: 17888175 PMCID: PMC2093937 DOI: 10.1186/1744-9081-3-50] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2007] [Accepted: 09/23/2007] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Background Previous linkage and association studies may have implicated the Dystrobrevin-binding protein 1 (DTNBP1) gene locus or a gene in linkage disequilibrium with DTNBP1 on chromosome 6p22.3 in genetic susceptibility to schizophrenia. Methods We used the case control design to test for of allelic and haplotypic association with schizophrenia in a sample of four hundred and fifty research subjects with schizophrenia and four hundred and fifty ancestrally matched supernormal controls. We genotyped the SNP markers previously found to be significantly associated with schizophrenia in the original study and also other markers found to be positive in subsequent studies. Results We could find no evidence of allelic, genotypic or haplotypic association with schizophrenia in our UK sample. Conclusion The results suggest that the DTNBP1 gene contribution to schizophrenia must be rare or absent in our sample. The discrepant allelic association results in previous studies of association between DTNBP1 and schizophrenia could be due population admixture. However, even positive studies of European populations do not show any consistent DTNBP1 alleles or haplotypes associated with schizophrenia. Further research is needed to resolve these issues. The possible confounding of linkage with association in family samples already showing linkage at 6p22.3 might be revealed by testing genes closely linked to DTNBP1 for allelic association and by restricting family based tests of association to only one case per family.
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- Susmita R Datta
- Molecular Psychiatry Laboratory, Department of Mental Health Sciences, University College London Medical School, Windeyer Institute of Medical Sciences, 46 Cleveland Street, London, W1T 4JF, UK
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- Molecular Psychiatry Laboratory, Department of Mental Health Sciences, University College London Medical School, Windeyer Institute of Medical Sciences, 46 Cleveland Street, London, W1T 4JF, UK
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- Molecular Psychiatry Laboratory, Department of Mental Health Sciences, University College London Medical School, Windeyer Institute of Medical Sciences, 46 Cleveland Street, London, W1T 4JF, UK
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- Molecular Psychiatry Laboratory, Department of Mental Health Sciences, University College London Medical School, Windeyer Institute of Medical Sciences, 46 Cleveland Street, London, W1T 4JF, UK
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- Molecular Psychiatry Laboratory, Department of Mental Health Sciences, University College London Medical School, Windeyer Institute of Medical Sciences, 46 Cleveland Street, London, W1T 4JF, UK
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- Molecular Psychiatry Laboratory, Department of Mental Health Sciences, University College London Medical School, Windeyer Institute of Medical Sciences, 46 Cleveland Street, London, W1T 4JF, UK
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- Molecular Psychiatry Laboratory, Department of Mental Health Sciences, University College London Medical School, Windeyer Institute of Medical Sciences, 46 Cleveland Street, London, W1T 4JF, UK
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- Camden and Islington Mental Health and Social Care Trust, St Pancras Hospital, London, NW1 0PE, UK
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- Camden and Islington Mental Health and Social Care Trust, St Pancras Hospital, London, NW1 0PE, UK
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- Hampshire Partnership NHS Trust, Mulfords Hill Centre, Tadley, Hampshire, RG26 3HX, UK
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- West London Mental Health Trust, Hammersmith & Fulham Mental Health Unit and St Bernard's Hospital, London, W6 8RF, UK
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- Mersey Care NHS Trust, University Hospital Aintree, Longmoor Lane, Aintree, Liverpool, L9 7AD, UK
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- Molecular Psychiatry Laboratory, Department of Mental Health Sciences, University College London Medical School, Windeyer Institute of Medical Sciences, 46 Cleveland Street, London, W1T 4JF, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Headington, Oxford, UK
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- West London Mental Health Trust, Hammersmith & Fulham Mental Health Unit and St Bernard's Hospital, London, W6 8RF, UK
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Headington, Oxford, UK
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- Queen Mary College, University of London and East London and City Mental Health Trust, Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, London, E1 1BB, UK
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- Molecular Psychiatry Laboratory, Department of Mental Health Sciences, University College London Medical School, Windeyer Institute of Medical Sciences, 46 Cleveland Street, London, W1T 4JF, UK
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Pae CU, Serretti A, Mandelli L, Yu HS, Patkar AA, Lee CU, Lee SJ, Jun TY, Lee C, Paik IH, Kim JJ. Effect of 5-haplotype of dysbindin gene (DTNBP1) polymorphisms for the susceptibility to bipolar I disorder. Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 2007; 144B:701-3. [PMID: 17192893 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.b.30439] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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We investigated a possible association between dysbindin gene (DTNBP1) variants and bipolar I disorder (BID). Five SNPs within DTNBP1 (rs3213207, rs1011313, rs2005976, rs760761, and rs2619522) were genotyped for 151 patients with BID and 478 controls. We observed a significant protective association of the haplotype A-C-G-T-A (all SNPs, P = 0.00016) and particularly G-T-A (the last three SNP, P = 0.00007) within DTNBP1 variants investigated. Single marker and subgroup (e.g., psychotic features, age at onset, family history, etc.) analyses showed no significant association. Although the association was due to a small number of subjects, specific DTNBP1 haplotypes, previously associated with schizophrenia, may be also associated with BID. Adequately powered studies from different ethnicities will be necessary to confirm our findings.
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- Chi-Un Pae
- Department of Psychiatry, The Catholic University of Korea College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
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Sutton LP, Honardoust D, Mouyal J, Rajakumar N, Rushlow WJ. Activation of the canonical Wnt pathway by the antipsychotics haloperidol and clozapine involves dishevelled-3. J Neurochem 2007; 102:153-69. [PMID: 17472703 DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.2007.04527.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Protein kinase B (Akt), glycogen synthase kinase-3 (GSK-3) and members of the Wnt signal transduction pathway were recently found to be altered in schizophrenia and targeted by antipsychotic drugs. In the current study, selected Wnt signalling proteins were investigated to determine if they are altered by the antipsychotics clozapine or haloperidol in the rat prefrontal cortex. Pheochromocytoma (PC12) and neuroblastoma (SH-SY5Y) cells were also used to elucidate how antipsychotics generated the pattern of changes observed in vivo. Western blotting (WB) revealed that treatment with haloperidol or clozapine caused an up-regulation of Wnt-5a, dishevelled-3, Axin, total and phosphorylated GSK-3 and beta-catenin protein levels. Treatment of PC12 and SH-SY5Y cells with a variety of pharmacological agents as well as the over-expression of several Wnt related proteins failed to mimic the pattern observed in vivo following antipsychotic treatment. However, the over-expression of dishevelled-3 nearly perfectly duplicated the changes observed in vivo. Immunoprecipitations (IP) conducted using protein isolated from the rat prefrontal cortex indicated that dishevelled-3 is associated with the D2 dopamine receptor thereby suggesting that antipsychotics may act on dishevelled-3 via D2 dopamine receptors to initiate a cascade of downstream changes involving Axin, GSK-3 and beta-catenin that may help to alleviate psychosis in schizophrenic patients.
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- Laurie P Sutton
- Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
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Escamilla MA, Ontiveros A, Nicolini H, Raventos H, Mendoza R, Medina R, Munoz R, Levinson D, Peralta JM, Dassori A, Almasy L. A genome-wide scan for schizophrenia and psychosis susceptibility loci in families of Mexican and Central American ancestry. Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 2007; 144B:193-9. [PMID: 17044102 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.b.30411] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Schizophrenia is a complex psychiatric disorder, likely to be caused in part by multiple genes. In this study, linkage analyses were performed to identify chromosomal regions most likely to be associated with schizophrenia and psychosis in multiplex families of Mexican and Central American origin. Four hundred and fifty-nine individuals from 99 families, containing at least two siblings with hospital diagnoses of schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder, were genotyped. Four hundred and four microsatellite markers were genotyped for all individuals and multipoint non-parametric linkage analyses were performed using broad (any psychosis) and narrow (schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder) models. Under the broad model, three chromosomal regions (1pter-p36, 5q35, and 18p11) exhibited evidence of linkage with non-parametric lod (NPL) scores greater than 2.7 (equivalent to empirical P values of less than 0.001) with the peak multipoint NPL = 3.42 (empirical P value = 0.00003), meeting genomewide evidence for significant linkage in the 1pter-p36 region. Under the narrow model, the same three loci showed (non-significant) evidence of linkage. These linkage findings (1pter-p36, 18p11, and 5q35) highlight where genes for psychosis and schizophrenia are most likely to be found in persons of Mexican and Central American ancestry, and correspond to recent linkages of schizophrenia or psychosis in other populations which were formed in part from emigrants from the Spanish empire of the 15th and 16th centuries.
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- M A Escamilla
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA), San Antonio, Texas, 78229-3900, USA.
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Schizophrenia is widely held to stem from the combined effects of multiple common polymorphisms, each with a small impact on disease risk. We suggest an alternative view: that schizophrenia is highly heterogeneous genetically and that many predisposing mutations are highly penetrant and individually rare, even specific to single cases or families. This "common disease--rare alleles" hypothesis is supported by recent findings in human genomics and by allelic and locus heterogeneity for other complex traits. We review the implications of this model for gene discovery research in schizophrenia.
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- Jon M McClellan
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
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Pae CU, Serretti A, Mandelli L, De Ronchi D, Patkar AA, Jun TY, Kim JJ, Lee CU, Lee SJ, Lee C, Paik IH. Dysbindin associated with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor antidepressant efficacy. Pharmacogenet Genomics 2007; 17:69-75. [PMID: 17264804 DOI: 10.1097/01.fpc.0000236330.03681.6d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Antidepressant drug efficacy is partially under genetic control and a number of gene variants have been associated with antidepressants efficacy over the last few years. In the search for further genes influencing antidepressant response we focused on the dysbindin gene (dystrobrevin-binding-protein 1, DTNBP1). BASIC METHODS One hundred and four Korean inpatients affected by major depressive disorder were treated with various antidepressants at standard therapeutic daily doses and rated with the 10-items Montgomery-Asberg Depression rating scale (MADRS) at baseline and discharge. Five DTNBP1 variants (rs3213207 A/G, rs1011313 C/T, rs2005976 G/A, rs760761 C/T and rs2619522 A/C) were analysed for all patients. RESULTS Rs2005976 was found to be significantly associated with final MADRS scores, with the rarest A allele associated with higher final scores (P=0.00055), rs760761 also showed a significant association (P=0.0058) and rs2619522 showed a positive trend (P=0.025). Markers were not significantly associated with Clinical Global Impression Scale scores. Five marker haplotypes were mildly associated with MADRS final scores but when considering the block composed of the three single nucleotide polymorphisms individually associated with response (rs2005976, rs760761 and rs2619522), results were more marked (P=0.0096), with the more frequent G-C-A haplotype associated with a positive outcome. CONCLUSIONS Despite limitations due to the sample size and the mild antidepressant response, we observed a significant association between DTNBP1 variants and antidepressant response.
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- Chi-Un Pae
- Department of Psychiatry, Kangnam St Mary's Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea College of Medicine, Seocho-Gu, Seoul, Korea.
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Rodd ZA, Bertsch BA, Strother WN, Le-Niculescu H, Balaraman Y, Hayden E, Jerome RE, Lumeng L, Nurnberger JI, Edenberg HJ, McBride WJ, Niculescu AB. Candidate genes, pathways and mechanisms for alcoholism: an expanded convergent functional genomics approach. THE PHARMACOGENOMICS JOURNAL 2006; 7:222-56. [PMID: 17033615 DOI: 10.1038/sj.tpj.6500420] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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We describe a comprehensive translational approach for identifying candidate genes for alcoholism. The approach relies on the cross-matching of animal model brain gene expression data with human genetic linkage data, as well as human tissue data and biological roles data, an approach termed convergent functional genomics. An analysis of three animal model paradigms, based on inbred alcohol-preferring (iP) and alcohol-non-preferring (iNP) rats, and their response to treatments with alcohol, was used. A comprehensive analysis of microarray gene expression data from five key brain regions (frontal cortex, amygdala, caudate-putamen, nucleus accumbens and hippocampus) was carried out. The Bayesian-like integration of multiple independent lines of evidence, each by itself lacking sufficient discriminatory power, led to the identification of high probability candidate genes, pathways and mechanisms for alcoholism. These data reveal that alcohol has pleiotropic effects on multiple systems, which may explain the diverse neuropsychiatric and medical pathology in alcoholism. Some of the pathways identified suggest avenues for pharmacotherapy of alcoholism with existing agents, such as angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors. Experiments we carried out in alcohol-preferring rats with an ACE inhibitor show a marked modulation of alcohol intake. Other pathways are new potential targets for drug development. The emergent overall picture is that physical and physiological robustness may permit alcohol-preferring individuals to withstand the aversive effects of alcohol. In conjunction with a higher reactivity to its rewarding effects, they may able to ingest enough of this nonspecific drug for a strong hedonic and addictive effect to occur.
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- Z A Rodd
- Department of Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatric Research, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
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Joo EJ, Lee KY, Jeong SH, Ahn YM, Koo YJ, Kim YS. The dysbindin gene (DTNBP1) and schizophrenia: No support for an association in the Korean population. Neurosci Lett 2006; 407:101-6. [PMID: 16959423 DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2006.08.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2006] [Revised: 08/01/2006] [Accepted: 08/07/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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The dysbindin gene (DTNBP1) is located in chromosome 6p22.3, one of the regions of positive linkage for schizophrenia. A strong genetic association between DTNBP1 and schizophrenia has been replicated through many recent studies. In particular, dysbindin protein has been found to play a role in the glutamate neural transmission in the brain. In this study, we attempted to replicate the previously reported positive association between DTNBP1 and schizophrenia in the Korean population. Our sample included 194 patients with schizophrenia based on DSM-IV and 351 normal controls. We genotyped five SNPs including SNP A in promoter region of DTNBP1. The allele and genotype association were analyzed and the simulated haplotype was investigated as well. As the result, we could not find a significant association of DTNBP1 with schizophrenia in this Korean sample. Additional analysis of the subgroup of schizophrenia having familial loading of major psychiatric disorders did not show association, either. In summary, DTNBP1 is not likely to be a major susceptibility gene for schizophrenia in this Korean population. This result of no association also implies possible genetic heterogeneity of schizophrenia. Further studies with more dense SNPs of the whole gene sequence for various populations will be necessary to understand the genetic contribution of DTNBP1 for the development of schizophrenia.
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- Eun-Jeong Joo
- Department of Neuropsychiatry, Eulji University School of Medicine, Eulji General Hospital, 280-1 Hagye-1-Dong, Nowon-gu, Seoul 139-711, South Korea
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Niculescu AB, Lulow LL, Ogden CA, Le-Niculescu H, Salomon DR, Schork NJ, Caligiuri MP, Lohr JB. PhenoChipping of psychotic disorders: a novel approach for deconstructing and quantitating psychiatric phenotypes. Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 2006; 141B:653-62. [PMID: 16838358 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.b.30404] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Psychiatric phenotypes as currently defined are primarily the result of clinical consensus criteria rather than empirical research. We propose, and present initial proof of principle for, a novel approach to characterizing psychiatric phenotypes. We have termed our approach PhenoChipping, by analogy with, and borrowing paradigms and tools from, gene expression microarray studies (GeneChipping). A massive parallel profiling of cognitive and affective state is done with a PhenoChip composed of a battery of existing and new quantitative psychiatric rating scales, as well as hand neuromotor measures. We present preliminary data from 104 subjects, 72 with psychotic disorders (bipolar disorder-41, schizophrenia-17, schizoaffective disorder-14), and 32 normal controls. Microarray data analysis software and visualization tools were used to investigate: 1. relationships between phenotypic items ("phenes"), including with objective motor measures, and 2. relationships between subjects. Our analyses revealed phenotypic overlap among, as well as phenotypic heterogeneity within, the three major psychotic disorders studied. This approach may be useful in helping us move beyond current diagnostic classifications, and suggests a combinatorial building-block (Lego-like) structure underlies psychiatric syndromes. The adaptation of microarray informatic tools for phenotypic analysis readily facilitates direct integration with gene expression profiling of lymphocytes in the same individuals, a strategy for molecular biomarker identification. Empirically derived clusterings of (endo)phenotypes and of patients will better serve genetic, pharmacological, and imaging research, as well as clinical practice.
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- Alexander B Niculescu
- Laboratory of Neurophenomics, Institute of Psychiatric Research, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202, USA.
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Fyer AJ, Hamilton SP, Durner M, Haghighi F, Heiman GA, Costa R, Evgrafov O, Adams P, de Leon AB, Taveras N, Klein DF, Hodge SE, Weissman MM, Knowles JA. A third-pass genome scan in panic disorder: evidence for multiple susceptibility loci. Biol Psychiatry 2006; 60:388-401. [PMID: 16919526 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2006.04.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2006] [Revised: 04/24/2006] [Accepted: 04/25/2006] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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BACKGROUND Panic disorder (PD) is a common illness with a definite but "complex" genetic contribution and estimated heritability of 30-46%. METHODS We report a genome scan in 120 multiplex PD pedigrees consisting of 1591 individuals of whom 992 were genotyped with 371 markers at an average spacing of 9cM. Parametric two-point, multipoint, and nonparametric analyses were performed using three PD models (Broad, Intermediate, Narrow) and allowing for homogeneity or heterogeneity. The two-point analyses were also performed allowing for independent male and female recombination fractions (theta). Genome-wide significance was empirically evaluated using simulations of this dataset. RESULTS Evidence for linkage reached genome-wide significance in one region on chromosome 15q (near GABA-A receptor subunit genes) and was suggestive at loci on 2p, 2q and 9p using an averaged theta. Analyses allowing for sex-specific theta's were consistent except that support at one locus on 2q increased to genome-wide significance and an additional region of suggestive linkage on 12q was identified. However, differences in male and female recombination fractions predicted by the sex-specific approach were not consistent with current physical maps. CONCLUSIONS These data provide evidence for chromosomal regions on 15q and 2q that may be important in genetic susceptibility to panic disorder. Although we are encouraged by the findings of analyses using sex-specific recombination fractions, we also note that further understanding of this analytic strategy will be important.
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- Abby J Fyer
- Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, New York 10032, USA.
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Chen J, Lipska BK, Weinberger DR. Genetic mouse models of schizophrenia: from hypothesis-based to susceptibility gene-based models. Biol Psychiatry 2006; 59:1180-8. [PMID: 16631133 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2006.02.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2005] [Revised: 12/19/2005] [Accepted: 02/22/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Translation of human genetic mutations into genetic mouse models is an important strategy to study the pathogenesis of schizophrenia, identify potential drug targets, and test new drugs for new antipsychotic treatments. Although it is impossible to recapitulate the full spectrum of schizophrenia symptoms in animal models, hypothesis-driven genetic mouse models have been successful in reproducing several schizophrenia-like behaviors and uncovering the roles of specific genes in dopamine and glutamine neurotransmission systems in mediating schizophrenia-like behaviors. Recent discoveries of susceptibility genes for schizophrenia and recognition of cognitive dysfunction as a core feature of schizophrenia and a phenotype of susceptibility for schizophrenia offer opportunities to develop newer genetic mouse models based on susceptibility. This new generation of genetic mouse models could shed light on the etiology of schizophrenia and lead us to new hypotheses, novel diagnostic tools, and more effective therapy.
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- Jingshan Chen
- Clinical Brain Disorders Branch, Genes, Cognition and Psychosis Program, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA.
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Kempisty B, Mostowska A, Górska I, Łuczak M, Czerski P, Szczepankiewicz A, Hauser J, Jagodziński PP. Association of 677C>T polymorphism of methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) gene with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. Neurosci Lett 2006; 400:267-71. [PMID: 16545905 DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2006.02.055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2005] [Revised: 02/20/2006] [Accepted: 02/21/2006] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) gene polymorphism 677C>T has been shown to be a risk factor for psychiatric disorders. We investigated the genotype and allelic frequencies of MTHFR 677C>T polymorphism in the group of patients with bipolar disorder type I (BDI) (n=200) and schizophrenia (n=200), and in the control group (n=300). Odds ratio (OR) for patients with BD and schizophrenia with 677T allele was 1.988 ((95% CI=1.370-2.883); P=0.0003 (P=0.0006 after Bonferroni correction)) and 1.796 ((95% CI=1.237-2.609); P=0.0020 (P=0.0040 after Bonferroni correction)), respectively. The stratification of patients based on gender revealed significant association of 677T allele with male patients with BDI and schizophrenia (OR=2.393; 95% CI=1.429-4.006; P=0.0008 and OR=2.036; 95% CI=1.207-3.433; P=0.0073, respectively). This finding indicates possible association of BD and schizophrenia with the 1p36.3 MTHFR locus.
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- Bartosz Kempisty
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Medical Sciences, 6 Swiecickiego St., 60-781 Poznan, Poland
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Chagnon YC. Shared Susceptibility Region On Chromosome 15 Between Autism And Catatonia. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF NEUROBIOLOGY 2006; 72:165-78. [PMID: 16697297 DOI: 10.1016/s0074-7742(05)72010-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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We have compiled significant linkage results from 20 genome scans for the autism syndrome disorder (ASD) and 2 for catatonia in schizophrenia (SZ). Localization of the markers has been updated across the studies using the same cytological (Genetic Location Database), physical (National Center for Biological Information), and genetic (Marshfield) maps. Eight autosomal chromosomes (1, 2, 3, 7, 9, 13, 15, and 17) showed significant linkages with ASD, and one with catatonia (15). Chromosome 15 was further characterized for SZ genome scans (N = 4) since catatonia was observed in SZ patients, for candidate genes for ASD and catatonia, and for the numerous chromosomal rearrangement and abnormalities associated to ASD. From these results, we observed that four potential susceptibility regions for ASD could be observed on chromosome 15 at 15q11-q13, 15q14-q21, 15q22-q23, and 15q26, respectively. All the four regions were shared between ASD and SZ, with 15q15-q21 being also shared with catatonia. Strong candidate genes, such as gamma-aminobutyric acid receptor B3, A5, and G3, have shown associations with ASD at 15q11-q13 susceptibility region where the majority of the chromosomal rearrangements are also found. On the other hand, negative association results were observed at 15q14-q21 susceptibility region for catatonia with the genes encoding the zinc transporter SLC30A4, the cholinergic receptor nicotinic alpha polypeptide 7, and the delta-like 4 Drosophila. Further, fine mapping and candidate gene analyses are needed to highlight potential common genes between ASD and catatonia for this chromosome.
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- Yvon C Chagnon
- Laval University Robert-Giffard Research Center, Beauport, Québec, Canada
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Van Den Bogaert A, Del-Favero J, Van Broeckhoven C. Major affective disorders and schizophrenia: a common molecular signature? Hum Mutat 2006; 27:833-53. [PMID: 16917879 DOI: 10.1002/humu.20369] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Psychiatric disorders, including affective disorders (AD) and schizophrenia (SZ) are among the most common disabling brain diseases in Western populations and result in high costs in terms of morbidity as well as mortality. Although their etiology and pathophysiology is largely unknown, family-, twin-, and adoption studies argue for a strong genetic determination of these disorders. These studies indicate that there is between 40 and 85% heritability for these disorders but point also to the importance of environmental factors. Therefore, any research strategy aiming at the identification of genes involved in the development of AD and SZ should account for the complex nature (multifactorial) of these disorders. During the last decade, molecular genetic studies have contributed a great deal to the identification of genetic factors involved in complex disorders. Here we provide a comprehensive review of the most promising genes for AD and SZ, and the methods and approaches that were used for their identification. Also, we discuss the current knowledge and hypotheses that have been formulated regarding the effect of variations on protein functioning as well as recent observations that point to common molecular mechanisms.
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- Ann Van Den Bogaert
- Department of Molecular Genetics, Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology, University of Antwerp, Antwerpen, Belgium
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Li T, Zhang F, Liu X, Sun X, Sham PC, Crombie C, Ma X, Wang Q, Meng H, Deng W, Yates P, Hu X, Walker N, Murray RM, St Clair D, Collier DA. Identifying potential risk haplotypes for schizophrenia at the DTNBP1 locus in Han Chinese and Scottish populations. Mol Psychiatry 2005; 10:1037-44. [PMID: 16044171 DOI: 10.1038/sj.mp.4001718] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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The dystrobrevin-binding protein 1 (DTNBP1) gene on chromosome 6p has emerged as a potential susceptibility gene for schizophrenia. Although a number of attempts to replicate the original association finding have been successful, they have not identified any obvious pathogenic variants or a single at risk haplotype common to all populations studied. In the present study we attempted further replication in an independent sample of 638 nuclear families from the Han Chinese population of Sichuan Province, SW China. We also examined 580 Scottish schizophrenic cases and 620 controls. We genotyped 10 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in DTNBP1 that were used in the original report of association, plus rs2619538 (SNP 'A') in the putative promoter region, which has also been associated with schizophrenia. In the Chinese trios we found that two SNPs (P1635 and P1765) were significantly overtransmitted, but with alleles opposite to those reported in the original studies. SNPs P1757 and P1765 formed a common haplotype, which also showed significant overtransmission. In the Scottish cases and controls, no individual markers were significantly associated with schizophrenia. A single haplotype, which included rs2619538 and P1583, and one rare haplotype, composed of P1320 and P1757, were significantly associated with schizophrenia, but no previously reported haplotypes were associated. Based on the data from the Chinese population, our results provide statistical support for DTNBP1 as a susceptibility gene for schizophrenia, albeit with haplotypes different from those of the original study. However, our lack of replication in the Scottish samples also indicates that caution is warranted when evaluating the robustness of the evidence for DTNBP1 as genetic risk factor for schizophrenia.
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- T Li
- Department of Psychiatry, Psychiatry Laboratory, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, PR China
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Raybould R, Green EK, MacGregor S, Gordon-Smith K, Heron J, Hyde S, Caesar S, Nikolov I, Williams N, Jones L, O'Donovan MC, Owen MJ, Jones I, Kirov G, Craddock N. Bipolar disorder and polymorphisms in the dysbindin gene (DTNBP1). Biol Psychiatry 2005; 57:696-701. [PMID: 15820225 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2005.01.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2004] [Revised: 12/13/2004] [Accepted: 01/12/2005] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Several studies support the dysbindin (dystrobrevin binding protein 1) gene (DTNBP1) as a susceptibility gene for schizophrenia. We previously reported that variation at a specific 3-locus haplotype influences susceptibility to schizophrenia in a large United Kingdom (UK) Caucasian case-control sample. METHODS Using similar methodology to our schizophrenia study, we have investigated this same 3-locus haplotype in a large, well-characterized bipolar sample (726 Caucasian UK DSM-IV bipolar I patients; 1407 ethnically matched controls). RESULTS No significant differences were found in the distribution of the 3-locus haplotype in the full sample. Within the subset of bipolar I cases with predominantly psychotic episodes of mood disturbance (n = 133) we found nominally significant support for association at this haploptype (p < .042) and at SNP rs2619538 (p = .003), with a pattern of findings similar to that in our schizophrenia sample. This finding was not significant after correction for multiple testing. CONCLUSIONS Our data suggest that variation at the polymorphisms examined does not make a major contribution to susceptibility to bipolar disorder in general. They are consistent with the possibility that DTNBP1 influences susceptibility to a subset of bipolar disorder cases with psychosis. However, our subset sample is small and the hypothesis requires testing in independent, adequately powered samples.
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Affiliation(s)
- Rachel Raybould
- Department of Psychological Medicine, Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, UK
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Chagnon YC. Shared chromosomal susceptibility regions between autism and other mental disorders. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF NEUROBIOLOGY 2005; 71:419-43. [PMID: 16512360 DOI: 10.1016/s0074-7742(05)71017-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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- Yvon C Chagnon
- Genetic and Molecular Psychiatry Unit, Robert-Giffard Research Center, Laval University, Beauport, Québec, Canada
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