Journal
GENOMICS
Volume 82, Issue 4, Pages 433-440Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/S0888-7543(03)00167-8
Keywords
protocadherin gamma; mutation; polymorphism; schizophrenia; liquid chromatography; gene; association
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We screened for variation in the 12 protocadherin gamma A (PCDHGA) genes of the protocadherin cluster on chromosome 5q31. We used denaturing high-performance liquid chromatography followed by sequencing to identify changes in the DNA sequence. We identified 24 nonsynonymous changes, 24 synonymous SNPs, and 9 polymorphisms in the 5' flanking regions. The variant with the greatest predicted impact on the encoded protein was a frameshift polymorphism in PCDHGA8, caused by a deletion of one C base (Pro174fsdelC). The del variant was more common in 512 controls compared to 506 schizophrenic (SZ) cases (10.6% vs 7.2%, p = 0.007) but this trend was not replicated in an independent sample of 403 trios, in which it was transmitted 47 times and not transmitted 55 times from heterozygous parents (p = 0.43). We screened 10 of the common polymorphisms for association with schizophrenia by genotyping pooled DNA from 540 SZ cases and 540 controls, but none of them showed a significant difference. It will be important to identify the phenotype associated with the loss of the PCDHGA8 gene. (C) 2003 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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