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The high affinity neurotensin receptor gene (NTSR1): comparative sequencing and association studies in schizophrenia

Austin, J., Buckland, Paul Robert, Cardno, Alastair G., Williams, Nigel Melville ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1177-6931, Spurlock, Gillian, Hoogendoorn, Bastiaan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9753-169X, Zammit, Stanley ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2647-9211, Jones, G., Sanders, R., Jones, L., McCarthy, G., Jones, S., Bray, Nicholas John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4357-574X, McGuffin, Peter, Owen, Michael John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4798-0862 and O'Donovan, Michael Conlon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7073-2379 2000. The high affinity neurotensin receptor gene (NTSR1): comparative sequencing and association studies in schizophrenia. Molecular Psychiatry 5 (5) , pp. 552-557. 10.1038/sj.mp.4000761

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Abstract

Neurotensin and its high affinity receptor (NTSR1) localise within dopaminergic neurones in the mesocortical, mesolimbic and nigrostriatal systems12345 and it is now clear that neurotensin can selectively modulate dopaminergic neurotransmission.2367891011 This has led to the hypothesis that altered neurotensin function contributes to the pathogenesis of schizophrenia and other psychoses. This hypothesis has been supported circumstantially by a number of lines of evidence. (1) Central administration of neurotensin produces effects similar to those produced by the peripheral administration of atypical antipsychotics.12131415 (2) Observations of low levels of neurotensin in the CSF of schizophrenics.1617 (3) Reduced numbers of neurotensin receptors in the brains of schizophrenics.1819 Given the above link between neurotensin and dopamine, and the evidence implicating altered neurotensin function in psychosis, we20 have postulated that DNA sequence variation in neurotensin or its receptors might be associated with schizophrenia. In keeping with this hypothesis, an association has recently been reported21 between schizophrenia and the gene encoding the neurotensin high affinity receptor (NTSR1). However, caution is required because the associated marker, a tetranucleotide repeat, is located 3 kb away from the 3' end of the gene and there is no evidence that it is functional. Therefore, as a follow-up to our earlier work on neurotensin,20 we have now sought to test the hypothesis that DNA sequence variants that alter the structure or expression of the NTSR1 gene (VAPSEs)22 are associated with schizophrenia. However, while we found 14 novel sequence variants in 28 probands with psychosis, none resulted in an amino acid change, and neither direct nor indirect association studies suggested these are involved in susceptibility to schizophrenia.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Institute (NMHRI)
Medicine
MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics (CNGG)
Subjects: R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
Uncontrolled Keywords: polymorphism; mutation; gene; candidate; psychosis
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
ISSN: 1359-4184
Last Modified: 12 Dec 2022 08:43
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/57458

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