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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1-2
pubmed:dateCreated
2006-8-28
pubmed:abstractText
Recently, several researches based on expression analysis, genetic linkage and association studies have suggested that the regulator of G-protein signaling 4 (RGS4) might be a schizophrenia susceptibility gene. However, these linkage and association studies have been conducted using different ethnic samples, and have therefore tended to produce inconsistent results. To help to clarify this inconsistency, we used non-family based samples to carry out a case-control analysis on six single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) (including four widely investigated SNPs, SNP1, 4, 7, 18 and another two SNPs, rs2842030 and rs2344671) in a Chinese Han sample set comprising 288 schizophrenia patients and 288 normal controls. All genotypings were conducted by direct sequencing and all SNPs were in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. We found no individual SNPs or haplotypes to be associated with schizophrenia. We also performed a meta-analysis based on all published population-based association studies on the topic including our own. The results of both our case-control study in the Chinese Han population and the meta-analysis yield no significant evidence for association, which suggests that the genetic polymorphisms within RGS4 are unlikely to confer an increased susceptibility to the etiology of schizophrenia.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0304-3940
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
2
pubmed:volume
406
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
122-7
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-19
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:16904822-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:16904822-Asian Continental Ancestry Group, pubmed-meshheading:16904822-Brain Chemistry, pubmed-meshheading:16904822-Case-Control Studies, pubmed-meshheading:16904822-China, pubmed-meshheading:16904822-DNA Mutational Analysis, pubmed-meshheading:16904822-Ethnic Groups, pubmed-meshheading:16904822-Female, pubmed-meshheading:16904822-Gene Frequency, pubmed-meshheading:16904822-Genetic Markers, pubmed-meshheading:16904822-Genetic Predisposition to Disease, pubmed-meshheading:16904822-Genetic Testing, pubmed-meshheading:16904822-Genotype, pubmed-meshheading:16904822-Haplotypes, pubmed-meshheading:16904822-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:16904822-Male, pubmed-meshheading:16904822-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:16904822-Polymorphism, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:16904822-RGS Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:16904822-Schizophrenia
pubmed:year
2006
pubmed:articleTitle
RGS4 polymorphisms and risk of schizophrenia: an association study in Han Chinese plus meta-analysis.
pubmed:affiliation
Institute for Nutritional Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, PR China.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Meta-Analysis