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FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRY
Volume 9, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00170
Keywords
post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD); dopaminergic genes; DRD2/ANNK1-COMT interaction; modulate; functional variants
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- External Cooperation Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences [153111KYSB20160036]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31471004, 31470070, 31271099]
- Key Project of Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences of Ministry of Education [16JJD190006]
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Objective: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a trauma-and stress-related psychiatric syndrome that occurs after exposure to extraordinary stressors. The neurotransmitter dopamine (DA) plays important roles in neurobiological processes like reward and stress, and a link between PTSD and the dopaminergic system has been reported. Thus, the investigation of an association between PTSD and gene-gene interaction (epistasis) within dopaminergic genes could uncover the genetic basis of dopamine-related PTSD symptomatology and contribute to precision medicine. Methods: We genotyped seven single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of three dopaminergic genes DRD2/ANNK1 (rs1800497 and rs1801028), COMT (rs6269, rs4633, rs4818 and rs4680) and DBH (rs1611115), in a Chinese predominantly adult cohort that had been exposed to an earthquake (156 PTSD cases and 978 controls). Results: Statistical genetics analysis identified a DRD2/ANNK1-COMT interaction (rs1800497 x rs6269), which is associated with PTSD diagnosis (P-interaction = 0.0008055 and P-corrected = 0.0169155). Single-variant and haplotype-based subset analyses showed that rs1800497 modulates the association directions of both the rs6269G allele and the rs6269-rs4633-rs4818-rs4680 haplotype G-C-G-G. The interaction (rs1800497 x rs6269) was replicated in a Chinese young female cohort (32 cases and 581 controls, P-interaction = 0.01329). Conclusions: Rs1800497 is related to the DA receptor D2 density and rs6269-rs4633-rs4818-rs4680 haplotypes affect the catechol O-methyltransferase level and enzyme activity. Thus, the interaction was inferred to be at protein-protein and DA activity level. The genotype combinations of the two SNPs indicate a potential origin of DA homeostasis abnormalities in PTSD development.
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