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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2002-3-7
pubmed:abstractText
Convincing evidence for a genetic component in the etiology of affective disorders (AD), including bipolar affective disorder (BPAD) and unipolar affective disorder (UPAD), is supported by traditional and molecular genetic studies. Most arguments lead to the complex inheritance hypothesis, suggesting that the mode of inheritance is probably not Mendelian but most likely oligogenic (or polygenic) and that the contribution of genes could be moderate or weak. The purpose of the present European multicenter study (13 centers) was to test the potential role in BPAD and UPAD of two candidate dopaminergic markers, DRD2 and DRD3, using a case-control association design. The following samples were analyzed for DRD2: 358 BPAD/358 control (C) and 133 UPAD/ 133 C subjects, and for DRD3: 325 BPAD/ 325 C and 136 UPAD/136 C subjects. Patients and controls were individually matched for sex, age ( plus minus five years) and geographical origin. Evidence for significant association between BPAD and DRD2 emerged, with an over-representation of genotype 5-5 (P=0.004) and allele 5 (P=0.002) in BPAD cases compared to controls. No association was found for DRD2 in UPAD, and for DRD3 neither in BPAD or UPAD. Our results suggest that the DRD2 microsatellite may be in linkage disequilibrium with a nearby genetic variant involved in the susceptibility to BPAD. Our large European sample allowed for replicating of some previous reported positive findings obtained in other study populations.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0148-7299
pubmed:author
pubmed-author:AckenheilManfredM, pubmed-author:AdolfssonRolfR, pubmed-author:AschauerHaroldH, pubmed-author:BlackwoodDouglasD, pubmed-author:DamHenrikH, pubmed-author:Del-FaveroJurgenJ, pubmed-author:DikeosDimitrisD, pubmed-author:FuchshuberSS, pubmed-author:HentgesFrançoisF, pubmed-author:HilgerChristianeC, pubmed-author:IvezicSladjanaS, pubmed-author:JakovljevicMiroM, pubmed-author:JazinElenaE, pubmed-author:KanevaRadkaR, pubmed-author:LererBernardB, pubmed-author:MacciardiFabioF, pubmed-author:MassatIsabelleI, pubmed-author:MendlewiczJulienJ, pubmed-author:MilanovaVihraV, pubmed-author:MuirWalterW, pubmed-author:NylanderPeter OPO, pubmed-author:OrucLilijanaL, pubmed-author:PapadimitriouGeorge NGN, pubmed-author:PeltonenLeenaL, pubmed-author:SegmanRonnen HRH, pubmed-author:SerrettiAlessandroA, pubmed-author:SmeraldiEnricoE, pubmed-author:SoueryDanielD, pubmed-author:StanerLucL, pubmed-author:Van BroeckhovenChristineC, pubmed-author:Van GestelSofieS
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright 2002 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
8
pubmed:volume
114
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
177-85
pubmed:dateRevised
2005-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2002
pubmed:articleTitle
Positive association of dopamine D2 receptor polymorphism with bipolar affective disorder in a European Multicenter Association Study of affective disorders.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Psychiatry, University Clinics of Brussels, Erasme Hospital, Free University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium. imassat@ulb.ac.be
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Multicenter Study