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ASIAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY
Volume 53, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ajp.2020.102193
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Schizophrenia; Antipsychotic-naive; Mitochondrial dysfunction; Mitochondrial DNA copy number; Oxidative stress
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- CEIB Programme Support [BT/PR5322/COE/34/8/2012]
- Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance Senior Fellowship [500236/Z/11/Z]
- Department of Science and Technology, Government of India [DST/SJF/LSA-02/2014-15]
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Objective: Schizophrenia is a complex neuropsychiatric disorder with significant genetic predisposition. In a subset of schizophrenia patients, mitochondrial dysfunction could be explained by the genomic defects like mitochondrial DNA Copy Number Variations, which are considered as a sensitive index of cellular oxidative stress. Given the high energy demands for neuronal functions, altered Mitochondrial DNA copy number (mtDNAcn) and consequent impaired mitochondrial physiology would significantly influence schizophrenia pathogenesis. In this context, we have made an attempt to study mitochondrial dysfunction in schizophrenia by assessing mtDNAcn in antipsychotic-naive/free schizophrenia patients. Method: mtDNAcn was measured in 90 antipsychotic-naive / free schizophrenia (SCZ) patients and 147 Healthy Controls (HC). The relative mtDNAcn was determined by quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) using TaqMan (R) multiplex assay method. Result: A statistically significant difference between groups [t = 5.22, P < 0.001] was observed, with significantly lower mtDNAcn in SCZ compared to HC. The group differences persisted even after controlling for age and sex [F (4, 232) = 22.68, P < 0.001, eta 2 = 0.09]. Conclusion: Lower mtDNAcn in SCZ compared to HC suggests that mtDNAcn may hold potential to serve as an important proxy marker of mitochondrial function in antipsychotic-naive/free SCZ patients.
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