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JOURNAL OF NEURAL TRANSMISSION
Volume 107, Issue 5, Pages 523-530Publisher
SPRINGER-VERLAG WIEN
DOI: 10.1007/s007020070075
Keywords
amine oxidase; MAO; platelet; personality; association study; candidate gene
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Monoamine oxidase (MAO) play a critical role in the degradation of endogenous and exogenous amines throughout the body. There are two distinct MAO isoforms, MAO-A and MAO-B, which both are encoded in genes on the X chromosome. Alterations in MAO-B activity have previously been connected with several neurological disorders. Platelet MAO (trbc-MAO) is exclusively of the B-type and the catalytic activity of this enzyme is under strong, yet unknown, genetic control. Specific trbc-MAO activity has been reported to be increased in certain neurodegenerative diseases and to correlate with personality traits such as sensation seeking and impulsiveness. In the present study, we investigated if trbc-MAO activity is associated with genotype at a variable region (A/G dimorphism) in intron 13 of the human gene encoding MAO-B. The MAOB intron 13 allele status and levels of trbc-MAO were determined for 55 Caucasian non-smoking males. Individuals with the A-allele displayed significantly lower enzyme activity than individuals with the G-allele displayed significantly lower enzyme activity than individuals with the G-allele i.e. 11.4 +/- 0.6 nmol/10(10) platelets/min compared with 13.5 +/- 0.6 (mean +/- SEM, p = 0.019). The present results suggest that the MAOB genotype may be involved in determining trbc-MAO activity.
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