Schizophrenia and functional polymorphisms in the MAOA and COMT genes: No evidence for association or epistasis

Norton, Nadine, Kirov, George ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3427-3950, Zammit, Stanley ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2647-9211, Jones, Gaynor, Jones, Susan, Owen, Richard, Krawczak, Michael, Williams, Nigel Melville ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1177-6931, O'Donovan, Michael Conlon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7073-2379 and Owen, Michael John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4798-0862 2002. Schizophrenia and functional polymorphisms in the MAOA and COMT genes: No evidence for association or epistasis. American Journal Of Medical Genetics Part A 114 (5) , pp. 491-496. 10.1002/ajmg.10517

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Abstract

Several lines of evidence suggest that psychosis is associated with altered dopaminergic neurotransmission. Dopamine is catabolized by monoamine oxidase (MAO) and catechol-O-methyl transferase (COMT). We hypothesized that the genes encoding MAOA and COMT might contain genetic variation conferring increased risk to schizophrenia. In order to test this hypothesis, we genotyped the 941T > G and the promoter VNTR polymorphisms in the MAOA gene and the V158M COMT polymorphism in 346 DSMIV schizophrenics and 334 controls. We also genotyped the-287A > G COMT promoter polymorphism in 177 schizophrenics and 173 controls. No significant differences were found in allele or genotype frequencies between affecteds and controls for any of the polymorphisms. As both genes are involved in degrading catecholamines, we also sought evidence for additive and epistatic effects but none was observed. Our data, therefore, do not support the hypothesis that genetic variation in MAOA and COMT is involved individually or in combination in the etiology of 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)
ISSN:	0148-7299
Last Modified:	17 Nov 2022 12:42
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/82305

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