TY - JOUR
T1 - Neurotransmission and bipolar disorder
T2 - A systematic family-based association study
AU - Shi, Jiajun
AU - Badner, Judith A.
AU - Hattori, Eiji
AU - Potash, James B.
AU - Willour, Virginia L.
AU - McMahon, Francis J.
AU - Gershon, Elliot S.
AU - Liu, Chunyu
PY - 2008/10/5
Y1 - 2008/10/5
N2 - Neurotransmission pathways/systems have been proposed to be involved in the pathophysiology and treatment of bipolar disorder for over 40 years. In order to test the hypothesis that common variants of genes in one or more of five neurotransmission systems confer risk for bipolar disorder, we analyzed 1,005 tag single nucleotide polymorphisms in 90 genes from dopaminergic, serotonergic, noradrenergic, GABAergic, and glutamatergic neurotransmitter systems in 101 trios and 203 quads from Caucasian bipolar families. Our sample has 80% power to detect ORs ≥ 1.82 and ≥1.57 for minor allele frequencies of 0.1 and 0.5, respectively. Nominally significant allelic and haplotypic associations were found for genes from each neurotransmission system, with several reaching gene-wide significance (allelic: GRIA1, GRIN2D, and QDPR; haplotypic: GRIN2C, QDPR, and SLC6A3). However, none of these associations survived correction for multiple testing in an individual system, or in all systems considered together. Significant single nucleotide polymorphism associations were not found with sub-phenotypes (alcoholism, psychosis, substance abuse, and suicide attempts) or significant gene-gene interactions. These results suggest that, within the detectable odds ratios of this study, common variants of the selected genes in the five neurotransmission systems do not play major roles in influencing the risk for bipolar disorder or comorbid sub-phenotypes.
AB - Neurotransmission pathways/systems have been proposed to be involved in the pathophysiology and treatment of bipolar disorder for over 40 years. In order to test the hypothesis that common variants of genes in one or more of five neurotransmission systems confer risk for bipolar disorder, we analyzed 1,005 tag single nucleotide polymorphisms in 90 genes from dopaminergic, serotonergic, noradrenergic, GABAergic, and glutamatergic neurotransmitter systems in 101 trios and 203 quads from Caucasian bipolar families. Our sample has 80% power to detect ORs ≥ 1.82 and ≥1.57 for minor allele frequencies of 0.1 and 0.5, respectively. Nominally significant allelic and haplotypic associations were found for genes from each neurotransmission system, with several reaching gene-wide significance (allelic: GRIA1, GRIN2D, and QDPR; haplotypic: GRIN2C, QDPR, and SLC6A3). However, none of these associations survived correction for multiple testing in an individual system, or in all systems considered together. Significant single nucleotide polymorphism associations were not found with sub-phenotypes (alcoholism, psychosis, substance abuse, and suicide attempts) or significant gene-gene interactions. These results suggest that, within the detectable odds ratios of this study, common variants of the selected genes in the five neurotransmission systems do not play major roles in influencing the risk for bipolar disorder or comorbid sub-phenotypes.
KW - Amino acid
KW - Bipolar disorder
KW - Monoamine
KW - Neurotransmitter
KW - Single nucleotide polymorphism
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U2 - 10.1002/ajmg.b.30769
DO - 10.1002/ajmg.b.30769
M3 - Article
C2 - 18444252
AN - SCOPUS:55349124978
SN - 1552-4841
VL - 147
SP - 1270
EP - 1277
JO - American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics
JF - American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics
IS - 7
ER -