Dysbindin modulates brain function during visual processing in children

Mechelli, A., Viding, E., Kumar, A., Pettersson-Yeo, W., Fusar-Poli, P., Tognin, S., O'Donovan, Michael Conlon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7073-2379 and McGuire, P. 2010. Dysbindin modulates brain function during visual processing in children. NeuroImage 49 (1) , pp. 817-822. 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.07.030

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Abstract

Schizophrenia is a neurodevelopmental disorder, and risk genes are thought to act through disruption of brain development. Several genetic studies have identified dystrobrevin binding protein 1 (DTNBP1, also known as dysbindin) as a potential susceptibility gene for schizophrenia, but its impact on brainfunction is poorly understood. It has been proposed that DTNBP1 may be associated with differences in visualprocessing. To test this, we examined the impact on visualprocessing in 61 healthy children aged 10–12 years of a genetic variant in DTNBP1 (rs2619538) that was common to all schizophrenia associated haplotypes in an earlier UK-Irish study. We tested the hypothesis that carriers of the risk allele would show altered occipital cortical function relative to noncarriers. Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) was used to measure brain responses during a visual matching task. The data were analysed using statistical parametric mapping and statistical inferences were made at p < 0.05 (corrected for multiple comparisons). Relative to noncarriers, carriers of the risk allele had greater activation in the lingual, fusiform gyrus and inferior occipital gyri. In these regions DTNBP1 genotype accounted for 19%, 20% and 14% of the inter-individual variance, respectively. Our results suggest that that genetic variation in DTNBP1 is associated with differences in the function of brain areas that mediate visualprocessing, and that these effects are evident in young children. These findings are consistent with the notion that the DTNBP1 gene influences brain development and can thereby modulate vulnerability to schizophrenia.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics (CNGG)
Subjects:	R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Dysbindin; Visualprocessing; Children; Schizophrenia; Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Publisher:	Elsevier
ISSN:	1053-8119
Last Modified:	20 Oct 2022 07:44
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/26253

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