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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
2005-5-27
pubmed:abstractText
Postmortem brain studies have shown deficits in the cortical gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) system in schizophrenic individuals. Expression studies have shown a decrease in the major GABA-synthesizing enzyme (glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD67) mRNA levels in neurons in dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in schizophrenics relative to controls. In the present study, SNPs in and around the GAD1 gene, which encodes the protein GAD67, were tested on a rare, severely ill group of children and adolescents with childhood-onset schizophrenia (COS) (n=72), in a family-based association analysis. Compared to adult-onset samples, the COS sample has evidence for more salient familial, and perhaps genetic, risk factors for schizophrenia, as well as evidence for frontal cortical hypofunction, and greater decline in cortical gray matter volume on anatomic brain MRI scans during adolescence. We performed family-based TDT and haplotype association analyses of the clinical phenotype, as well as association analyses with endophenotypes using the QTDT program. Three adjacent SNPs in the 5' upstream region of GAD1 showed a positive pairwise association with illness in these families (P=0.022-0.057). Significant transmission distortion of 4-SNP haplotypes was also observed (P=0.003-0.008). Quantitative trait TDT analyses showed an intriguing association between several SNPs and increased rate of frontal gray matter loss. These observations, when taken together with the positive results reported recently in two independent adult-onset schizophrenia pedigree samples, suggest that the gene encoding GAD67 may be a common risk factor for schizophrenia.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
1359-4184
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
10
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
581-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:15505639-5' Flanking Region, pubmed-meshheading:15505639-Adolescent, pubmed-meshheading:15505639-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:15505639-Age of Onset, pubmed-meshheading:15505639-Cerebral Cortex, pubmed-meshheading:15505639-Child, pubmed-meshheading:15505639-Chromosomes, Human, Pair 2, pubmed-meshheading:15505639-Family, pubmed-meshheading:15505639-Female, pubmed-meshheading:15505639-Genetic Linkage, pubmed-meshheading:15505639-Genetic Predisposition to Disease, pubmed-meshheading:15505639-Glutamate Decarboxylase, pubmed-meshheading:15505639-Haplotypes, pubmed-meshheading:15505639-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:15505639-Isoenzymes, pubmed-meshheading:15505639-Male, pubmed-meshheading:15505639-Pedigree, pubmed-meshheading:15505639-Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, pubmed-meshheading:15505639-Schizophrenia
pubmed:year
2005
pubmed:articleTitle
GAD1 (2q31.1), which encodes glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD67), is associated with childhood-onset schizophrenia and cortical gray matter volume loss.
pubmed:affiliation
Child Psychiatry Branch, NIMH, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. addingta@intra.nimh.nih.gov
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Clinical Trial, Controlled Clinical Trial