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Candidate gene association studies of genes involved in neuronal cholinergic transmission in Alzheimer's disease suggests choline acetyltransferase as a candidate deserving further study

Cook, L. J., Ho, L. W., Wang, L., Terrenoire, E., Brayne, C., Evans, J. G., Xuereb, J., Cairns, N. J., Turic, D., Hollingworth, P., Moore, P. J., Jehu, L., Archer, N., Walter, S., Foy, C., Edmonson, A., Powell, J., Lovestone, S., Williams, Julie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4069-0259 and Rubinsztein, D. C. 2005. Candidate gene association studies of genes involved in neuronal cholinergic transmission in Alzheimer's disease suggests choline acetyltransferase as a candidate deserving further study. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics 132B (1) , pp. 5-8. 10.1002/ajmg.b.30068

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Abstract

Consistent deficits in the cholinergic system are evident in the brains of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) patients, including reductions in the activities of acetylcholine, acetylcholinesterase (AChE), and choline acetyltransferase (ChAT), increased butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) activity, and a selective loss of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs). Accordingly, we have analyzed polymorphisms in the genes encoding AChE, ChAT, BChE, and several of the subunit genes from neuronal nAChRs, for genetic associations with late-onset AD. A significant association for disease was detected for a non-coding polymorphism in ChAT (allele chi(1) (2) = 12.84, P = 0.0003; genotype chi(2) (2) = 11.89, P = 0.0026). Although replication analysis did not confirm the significance of this finding when the replication samples were considered alone (allele chi(1) (2) = 1.02, P = 0.32; genotype chi(2) (2) = 1.101, P = 0.58) the trends were in the correct direction and a significant association remained when the two sample sets were pooled (allele chi(1) (2) = 12.37, P = 0.0004; genotype chi(2) (2) = 11.61, P = 0.003). Previous studies have reported significant disease associations for both the K-variant of BChE and the coding ChAT rs3810950 polymorphism with AD. Replication analyses of these two loci failed to detect any significant association for disease in our case-control samples.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics (CNGG)
Medicine
Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Institute (NMHRI)
Subjects: R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
ISSN: 1552-4841
Last Modified: 31 Oct 2022 10:05
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/83599

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