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JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS
Volume 126, Issue 1-2, Pages 167-173Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2010.04.003
Keywords
Major depressive disorder; SSRI response; SIRT1 gene; Linkage disequilibrium; Tagging SNP
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
- Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare
- Japan Health Sciences Foundation (Research on Health Sciences focusing on Drug Innovation)
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Background: Many studies including our previous ones as to PROKR2 and CLOCK have suggested that circadian genes may be involved in the mechanisms of mood disorders and their treatment responses. Also several recent investigations have reported that SIRT1 plays an important role in the circadian system as conventional circadian clock genes, and also have some relation to dopaminergic metabolism. So we considered the SIRT1 gene to be a good candidate gene for the pathophysiology for MDD and SSRI responses in MDD, and conducted a case-control study using four tagging SNPs (450 MDD patients, including 261 patients treated by SSRIs and 766 controls). Method: The MOD patients in this study had scores of 12 or higher on the 17 items of the Structured Interview Guide for Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (SIGH-D). We defined a clinical response as a decrease of more than 50% in baseline SIGH-D within 8 weeks, and clinical remission as an SIGH-D score of less than 7 at 8 weeks. Marker-trait association analysis was used to evaluate allele and genotype association with the chi-square test, and haplotype association analysis was evaluated with a likelihood ratio test. Result: We found an association between rs10997875 in SIRT1 gene and MDD in the allele/genotype analysis. In addition, this significance of these associations survived Bonferroni correction. However, we did not find any association between SIRT1 gene and SSRI therapeutic response in MDD in the allele/genotype analysis or haplotype analysis. Limitations: A replication study using larger samples may be required for conclusive results, since our sample size was small. Conclusions: Our results suggest that rs10997875 in SIRT1 gene may play a role in the pathophysiology of MDD in the Japanese population. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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