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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1-3
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-3-10
pubmed:abstractText
Genome-wide gene expression analysis using DNA microarray technology is a potential tool to search for unexpected genes that have a susceptibility to schizophrenia. We carried out a microarray analysis in the postmortem prefrontal cortex and found that the expression of the KLF5 gene, whose locus is on 13q21, was down-regulated in schizophrenia patients. This result was confirmed by a Western blot analysis. In a genetic study, we found that a polymorphism of the KLF5 gene (-1593T>C) was associated with schizophrenia. We identified neurons in the prefrontal cortex of human brain as sites of KLF5 expression by in situ hybridization and immunohistochemistry. KLF5 was immunohistochemically localized in granular and pyramidal cells in the hippocampus, which are the principal source of glutamatergic neurotransmission. These findings suggest that the KLF5 gene is a novel schizophrenia-susceptibility gene, and that the expression of the gene is involved in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia via glutamatergic neurotransmission.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0920-9964
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
100
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
291-301
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-9-2
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:18226501-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:18226501-Aged, pubmed-meshheading:18226501-Aged, 80 and over, pubmed-meshheading:18226501-Brain, pubmed-meshheading:18226501-Chromosome Mapping, pubmed-meshheading:18226501-Chromosomes, Human, pubmed-meshheading:18226501-Control Groups, pubmed-meshheading:18226501-Female, pubmed-meshheading:18226501-Gene Expression, pubmed-meshheading:18226501-Genetic Predisposition to Disease, pubmed-meshheading:18226501-Genome, Human, pubmed-meshheading:18226501-Genotype, pubmed-meshheading:18226501-Hippocampus, pubmed-meshheading:18226501-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:18226501-Immunohistochemistry, pubmed-meshheading:18226501-In Situ Hybridization, pubmed-meshheading:18226501-Kruppel-Like Transcription Factors, pubmed-meshheading:18226501-Linkage Disequilibrium, pubmed-meshheading:18226501-Male, pubmed-meshheading:18226501-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:18226501-Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis, pubmed-meshheading:18226501-Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, pubmed-meshheading:18226501-Prefrontal Cortex, pubmed-meshheading:18226501-Schizophrenia
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
Expression of Kruppel-like factor 5 gene in human brain and association of the gene with the susceptibility to schizophrenia.
pubmed:affiliation
Division of Psychiatry and Neurology, Department of Environmental Health and Safety, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan. myanagi@med.kobe-u.ac.jp
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't