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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL GENETICS PART B-NEUROPSYCHIATRIC GENETICS
Volume 131B, Issue 1, Pages 48-50Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.b.30025
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association study; glutamate receptor 6; autism; single nucleotide polymorphism
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The glutamate pathways are involved in diverse processes such as learning and memory, epilepsy, and they play important roles in neural plasticity, neural development, and neurodegeneration. It has been proposed that autism could be a hypoglutamatergic disorder. Recently, Jamain et al. [Mol Psychiatry 7:302-310] reported that the glutamate receptor 6 (GluR6 or GRIK2) is in linkage disequilibrium. with autism. In the present study, the transmission disequilibrium test (TDT) and the haplotype transmission were performed to analyze the four SNPs (SNP1: rs995640; SNP2: rs2227281; SNP3: rs2227283; SNP4: rs2235076) of GluR6 in 174 Chinese Han parent-offspring trios. The TDT demonstrated that the two SNPs (SNP2 and SNP3) showed preferential transmission (TDT P=0.032). The global chi(2) test for haplotype transmission also revealed an association between GluR6 and autism (chi(2)=10.78, df=3, P=0.013). Our results suggested that GluR6 is in linkage disequilibrium with autism. (C) 2004 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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