Support for RGS4 as a susceptibility gene for schizophrenia

Williams, Nigel Melville ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1177-6931, Preece, Anna Charlotte, Spurlock, Gillian, Norton, Nadine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3848-4288, Williams, Hywel John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7758-0312, McCreadie, Robin G, Buckland, Paul Robert, Sharkey, Val, Chowdari, Kodavali V., Zammit, Stanley ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2647-9211, Nimgaonkar, Vishwajit, Kirov, George ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3427-3950, Owen, Michael John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4798-0862 and O'Donovan, Michael Conlon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7073-2379 2004. Support for RGS4 as a susceptibility gene for schizophrenia. Biological Psychiatry 55 (2) , pp. 192-195. 10.1016/j.biopsych.2003.11.002

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Abstract

Background: The gene encoding the regulator of G-protein signaling 4 has recently been associated with susceptibility to schizophrenia. This finding is particularly interesting, because it was replicated within the same study and also because there are functional, positional, and expression data to support the regulator of G-protein signaling 4 as a schizophrenia candidate gene. Although the original report was highly suggestive, a limitation was that the study was conducted on rather small samples. Methods: We have examined a large case (n = 709) control (n = 710) sample for association between schizophrenia using four markers investigated in the earlier study, denoted single nucleotide polymorphisms 1, 4, 7, and 18. Results: We were able to replicate the associations with single nucleotide polymorphisms 4 and 18 that had previously been reported individually and have also identified significant association with haplotypes constructed from single nucleotide polymorphisms 1 and 4. Conclusions: Our data give modest support for the hypothesis that the regulator of G-protein signaling 4 is a susceptibility gene for 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 > R Medicine (General)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Schizophrenia; candidate gene; association; reporter gene; promoter; haplotype
Publisher:	Elsevier
ISSN:	0006-3223
Last Modified:	12 Dec 2022 08:44
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/57460

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