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Involvement of the long intergenic non-coding RNA LINC00461 in schizophrenia

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BMC PSYCHIATRY
卷 22, 期 1, 页码 -

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BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s12888-022-03718-4

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Schizophrenia; fMRI; Hippocampus; LINC00461

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  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [81471364]

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This study identifies the potential role of LINC00461 gene in the development of schizophrenia. The risk variant of LINC00461 gene is significantly associated with the disease and is linked to smaller hippocampal volume. Moreover, the blood expression level of LINC00461 mRNA is significantly lower in schizophrenia patients.
Objective LINC00461 is a highly conserved intergenic non-protein coding RNA that was implicated in schizophrenia at the genome-wide level. We aim to explore potential mechanisms underlying the involvement of LINC00461 in schizophrenia. Methods We performed a meta-analysis to investigate the association of LINC00461 rs410216 with schizophrenia, and evaluate the effects of the rs410216 on hippocampal volume and function using the functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) analysis. We utilized the GTEx dataset to profile the expression distribution of LINC00461 across different brain regions, and to investigate the potential impact of the risk SNPs on the expression of LINC00461 and other nearby genes. We compared blood expression levels of LINC00461 between schizophrenia patients and controls. Results Here we show that single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) located in regulatory elements spanning the LINC00461 region are significantly associated with schizophrenia (index SNP rs410216, P-meta = 1.43E-05); subjects carrying the risk allele of rs410216 showed decreased hippocampal volume. However, no significant association of the rs410216 variant with hippocampal activation was observed. Moreover, the expression level of LINC00461 mRNA was significantly lower in first-onset schizophrenia patients, and the risk allele also predicts a lower transcriptional level of LINC00461 in the hippocampus. Conclusion Together, these convergent lines of evidence implicate inadequate LINC00461 expression in the hippocampus in the development of schizophrenia, providing novel insight into the genetic architecture and biological etiology of schizophrenia.

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