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PSYCHIATRIC GENETICS
Volume 18, Issue 6, Pages 313-317Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/YPG.0b013e3283118725
Keywords
bipolar disorder; endophenotype; lissencephaly; neuronal migration; prefrontal cognition; schizophrenia; SMG6; structural genomic variations; TP53
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- FIS-MSC [PI051293]
- AstraZeneca
- Spanish Ministry of Health
- Instituto de Salud Carlos III
- Ciber en Salud Mental (CIBER-SAM)
- [GV2005-303]
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There is evidence for an association between structural variants in genes for lissencephaly, which are involved in neuronal migration, and prefrontal cognitive deficits in schizophrenia and bipolar patients. On the basis of these intriguing findings, we analyzed 16 markers located in the lissencephaly critical region (LCR in chromosome 17p13.3) in 124 schizophrenic, 56 bipolar, and 141 healthy individuals. All recruits were from a Spanish population isolate of Basque origin that is characterized by low genetic heterogeneity. In addition, we examined whether structural genomic variations in the LCR were associated with executive cognition. Twenty-three patients (12.8%), but none of the controls, showed structural variants (deletions and insertions) in either of two markers related with lissencephaly (D17S1566 on tumor suppressor gene TP53: tumor protein p53 and D17S22 on SMG6 gene: Smg-6 homolog, nonsense mediated mRNA decay factor- Caenorhabditis elegans). These patients performed significantly worse in the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test-Categories in comparison with patients without such variations in lissencephaly-related genes. The presence of structural variants was related to completed categories, and accounted for 10.7% of the variance (P=0.001). Finally, logistic regression showed that poor Wisconsin Card Sorting Test-Categories performance was the only predictor of belonging to the positive LCR variations group. These new findings provide further evidence for the association between some lissencephaly-related genes and both schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, and influence on frontal executive functioning. Psychiatr Genet 18:313-317 (C) 2008 Wolters Kluwer Health / Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
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