scispace - formally typeset
Journal ArticleDOI

Allelic Differences Between Han Chinese and Europeans for Functional Variants in ZNF804A and Their Association With Schizophrenia

Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
The results suggest that ZNF804A is a common risk gene for schizophrenia in world populations and that the newly identified functional SNP (rs359895) is likely a risk SNP for schizophrenia.
Abstract
Objective:ZNF804A is a schizophrenia risk gene that was recently identified by genome-wide association studies as well as subsequent replications. Although the results are consistent among studies in European populations, there have been conflicting reports in Chinese populations. The authors conducted both association and functional analyses to test whether ZNF804A is a risk gene for schizophrenia in Chinese populations. Method:The authors recruited two case-control samples of independent Han Chinese (a total of 2,207 participants) from southwestern China. A total of six single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), including the key SNP (rs1344706) that showed significant association with schizophrenia in European populations and the other five promoter SNPs of ZNF804A, were tested. Based on the results of the association analysis, the authors performed two functional assays to test the impact of the risk SNP on transcriptional factor binding affinity and promoter activity. Results:The SNP rs1344706 was not a...

read more

Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

Evidence that schizophrenia risk variation in the ZNF804A gene exerts its effects during fetal brain development

TL;DR: The T allele of rs1344706 is associated with a relative decrease in ZNF804A expression during the second trimester of fetal brain development, providing evidence for a schizophrenia risk mechanism that is operational in (and possibly specific to) the fetal brain.
Journal ArticleDOI

Pharmacogenetics and outcome with antipsychotic drugs.

TL;DR: The most promising genetic markers of antipsychotic treatment outcomes are discussed, and current translational research efforts that aim to bring these pharmacogenetic findings to the clinic in the near future are presented.
Journal ArticleDOI

Genetics of psychiatric disorders in the GWAS era: an update on schizophrenia

TL;DR: The influence of genetic factors in the development of schizophrenia has been convincingly demonstrated by family, twin, and adoption studies and there is strong indication that in some patients a deletion or insertion of a larger chromosomal region [so-called copy number variation (CNV)] might play a crucial role in pathogenesis.
Journal ArticleDOI

The schizophrenia risk gene ZNF804A: clinical associations, biological mechanisms and neuronal functions.

TL;DR: This review for the first time systematically presents the evidence for ZNF804A, describing its discovery and likely roles in brain development and schizophrenia pathogenesis, and summarizes this information with a systemic and broad assessment of recent findings.
Journal ArticleDOI

Convergent lines of evidence support CAMKK2 as a schizophrenia susceptibility gene

TL;DR: Analysis of large-scale genome-wide expression studies revealed that CAMKK2 participates in a highly interconnected PPI network formed by top schizophrenia genes, which further supports the potential role of CAMKK 2 in the pathogenesis of schizophrenia.
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

G*Power 3: A flexible statistical power analysis program for the social, behavioral, and biomedical sciences

TL;DR: G*Power 3 provides improved effect size calculators and graphic options, supports both distribution-based and design-based input modes, and offers all types of power analyses in which users might be interested.
Journal ArticleDOI

PLINK: A Tool Set for Whole-Genome Association and Population-Based Linkage Analyses

TL;DR: This work introduces PLINK, an open-source C/C++ WGAS tool set, and describes the five main domains of function: data management, summary statistics, population stratification, association analysis, and identity-by-descent estimation, which focuses on the estimation and use of identity- by-state and identity/descent information in the context of population-based whole-genome studies.
Journal ArticleDOI

Haploview: analysis and visualization of LD and haplotype maps

TL;DR: Haploview is a software package that provides computation of linkage disequilibrium statistics and population haplotype patterns from primary genotype data in a visually appealing and interactive interface.
Journal ArticleDOI

Common polygenic variation contributes to risk of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder

Shaun Purcell, +81 more
- 06 Aug 2009 - 
TL;DR: The extent to which common genetic variation underlies the risk of schizophrenia is shown, using two analytic approaches, and the major histocompatibility complex is implicate, which is shown to involve thousands of common alleles of very small effect.
Related Papers (5)

Identification of loci associated with schizophrenia by genome-wide association and follow-up

Biological insights from 108 schizophrenia-associated genetic loci

Stephan Ripke, +354 more
- 24 Jul 2014 -