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JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH
Volume 53, Issue -, Pages 47-53Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2014.02.002
Keywords
Major depression; DNA methylation; Serotonin transporter; Serotonin transporter-linked polymorphic region; Antidepressant; Therapeutic response
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan
- Japan Science and Technology (JST)
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [25116518] Funding Source: KAKEN
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We examined the utility of DNA methylation profiles at the CpG island of SLC6A4 (DMS) as a diagnostic biomarker for major depression (MD). In addition, the relationship between DMS and the serotonin transporter gene-linked polymorphic region (5-HTTLPR) allele, the severity of symptoms, number of early adversities, and therapeutic responses to antidepressants were examined. Genomic DNA was extracted from peripheral blood of Japanese healthy controls and patients with MD before and after treatment. DMS was analyzed using a MassARRAY Compact System. The severity of depression was evaluated using the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression, and early adversity was evaluated using the Early Trauma Inventory. We were unable to distinguish between and healthy controls, or between unmedicated patients and medicated patients using DMS. The 5-HTTLPR allele had no significant effect on DMS. The methylation rates for several CpGs differed significantly after treatment. Notably, the methylation rate of CpG 3 in patients with better therapeutic responses was significantly higher than that in patients with poorer responses. Although further studies examining the function of specific CpG units of SLC6A4 are required, these results suggest that the pre-treatment methylation rate of SLC6A4 is associated with therapeutic responses to antidepressants in unmedicated patients with MD. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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