Abstract
Tourette syndrome (TS) is a neurodevelopmental disorder with a complex genetic etiology. Through an international collaboration, we genotyped 42 single nucleotide polymorphisms (p < 10-3) from the recent TS genomewide association study (GWAS) in 609 independent cases and 610 ancestry-matched controls. Only rs2060546 on chromosome 12q22 (p = 3.3 × 10-4) remained significant after Bonferroni correction. Meta-analysis with the original GWAS yielded the strongest association to date (p = 5.8 × 10 -7). Although its functional significance is unclear, rs2060546 lies closest to NTN4, an axon guidance molecule expressed in developing striatum. Risk score analysis significantly predicted case-control status (p = 0.042), suggesting that many of these variants are true TS risk alleles.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 310-315 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Annals of neurology |
Volume | 76 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Aug 2014 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Neurology
- Clinical Neurology