Abou Jamra, Rami, Schulze, Thomas G., Becker, Tim, Brockschmidt, Felix F., Green, Elaine Karen, Alblas, Margrieta A., Wendland, Jens R., Adli, Mazda, Grozeva, Detelina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3239-8415, Strohmeier, Jana, Georgi, Alexander, Craddock, Nicholas John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2171-0610, Propping, Peter, Rietschel, Marcella, Nöthen, Markus M., Cichon, Sven and Schumacher, Johannes 2009. A systematic association mapping on chromosome 6q in bipolar affective disorder - evidence for themelanin-concentrating-hormone-receptor-2gene as a risk factor for bipolar affective disorder. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics 153B (4) , pp. 878-884. 10.1002/ajmg.b.31051 |
Abstract
Strong evidence of linkage between chromosomal region 6q16-q22 and bipolar affective disorder (BPAD) has previously been reported. We conducted a systematic association mapping of the 6q-linkage interval using 617 SNP markers in a BPAD case–control sample of German descent (cases = 330, controls = 325). In this screening step, 46 SNPs showed nominally significant BPAD-association (P-values between 0.0007 and 0.0484). Although none of the 46 SNPs survived correction for multiple testing, they were genotyped in a second and ethnically matched BPAD sample (cases = 328, controls = 397). At the melanin-concentrating-hormone-receptor-2 (MCHR2) gene, we found nominal association in both the initial and second BPAD samples (combined P = 0.008). This finding was followed up by the genotyping of 17 additional MCHR2-SNPs in the combined sample in order to define our findings more precisely. We found that the MCHR2-locus can be divided into three different haplotype-blocks, and observed that the MCHR2-association was most pronounced in BPAD male patients with psychotic symptoms. In two neighboring blocks, putative risk-haplotypes were found to be 7% more frequent in patients (block II: 23.3% vs. 16.2%, P = 0.005, block III: 39.2% vs. 32.0%, P = 0.024), whereas the putative protective haplotypes were found to be 5–8% less frequent in patients (block II: 11.6% vs. 16.4%, P = 0.041, block III: 30.0% vs. 38.8%, P = 0.007). The corresponding odds ratios (single-marker analysis) ranged between 1.25 and 1.46. Our findings may indicate that MCHR2 is a putative risk factor for BPAD. These findings should be interpreted with caution and replicated in independent BPAD samples.
Item Type: | Article |
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Date Type: | Publication |
Status: | Published |
Schools: | Medicine MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics (CNGG) |
Subjects: | Q Science > QH Natural history > QH426 Genetics R Medicine > R Medicine (General) R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | BPAD;GPR145;LD; genotype–phenotype analysis; MCHR2 |
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell |
ISSN: | 1552-4841 |
Last Modified: | 05 Oct 2024 13:55 |
URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/22145 |
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