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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
2002-9-9
pubmed:abstractText
The serotonin transporter (5-HTT) is a suitable candidate gene to test for involvement in the pathogenesis of major psychiatric disorders. We used the method of family-based controls to test for association between disease and a variable number tandem repeat (VNTR) in intron 2 of the gene, which has received support for involvement in the pathogenesis of several psychiatric disorders. We analysed 413 proband-parent trios of Bulgarian origin: 266 had a schizophrenic proband, 103 had a bipolar proband and 44 had a schizoaffective proband. The results were analysed using the extended transmission disequilibrium test. Possible effects of different alleles on certain clinical variables were examined by correlation analysis. Three alleles were detected: STin2.9, STin2.10 and STin2.12. None of the three diagnostic samples showed preferential transmission of alleles that reached conventional levels of statistical significance. We could not confirm previous results that STin2.12 allele increases susceptibility to bipolar disorder type I. The rare STin2.9 showed a non-significant trend for preferential transmission in the sample as a whole: 18 transmitted versus 11 non-transmitted (P = 0.2). The VNTR polymorphism in the 5-HTT gene does not appear to be a major risk factor for increasing susceptibility to major psychiatric disorders.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0955-8829
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright 2002 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
12
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
137-41
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:12218657-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:12218657-Alleles, pubmed-meshheading:12218657-Bipolar Disorder, pubmed-meshheading:12218657-Bulgaria, pubmed-meshheading:12218657-Carrier Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:12218657-Family, pubmed-meshheading:12218657-Female, pubmed-meshheading:12218657-Heterozygote Detection, pubmed-meshheading:12218657-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:12218657-Introns, pubmed-meshheading:12218657-Male, pubmed-meshheading:12218657-Membrane Glycoproteins, pubmed-meshheading:12218657-Membrane Transport Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:12218657-Minisatellite Repeats, pubmed-meshheading:12218657-Nerve Tissue Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:12218657-Psychotic Disorders, pubmed-meshheading:12218657-Schizophrenia, pubmed-meshheading:12218657-Serotonin Plasma Membrane Transport Proteins
pubmed:year
2002
pubmed:articleTitle
Major psychiatric disorders and the serotonin transporter gene (SLC6A4): family-based association studies.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Medical Genetics, Medical University Sofia, University Hospital Maichin dom, Sofia, Bulgaria.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't