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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS
卷 17, 期 6, 页码 766-773出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/ejhg.2008.243
关键词
essential tremor; ETM1; DRD3 receptor
资金
- German Federal Ministry of Education and Research [01GI0201]
- Medical Faculty of the Kiel University
The genetic causes of essential tremor (ET) seem to be heterogeneous. Recently, ET has been found associated with a functional variant (Ser9Gly) of the dopamine D-3 receptor (DRD3), located in the ETM1 locus on chromosome 3q13.3 described for the first time in 1997. We examined this variant in three different populations from Germany, Denmark and France. We undertook an association study of the Ser9Gly variant in 202 cases with a familial history from unrelated families with ET, 97 cases with isolated non-familial ET and 528 healthy controls. In addition, linkage and segregation analyses were carried out in 22 ET families. The distribution of genotypes and allele frequencies showed no significant differences in the whole sample and in a subanalysis of familial and sporadic cases. Age at onset of tremor, tremor duration and tremor severity did not show an association with the genotype. In addition, the DRD3 variant was not found linked to the disease in a subset of informative ET families. We did not find a significant association of the DRD3 variant with ET nor linkage to the DRD3 receptor in German, Danish and French ET patients and families, suggesting that it is unlikely to be a causal factor for ET. European Journal of Human Genetics (2009) 17, 766-773; doi: 10.1038/ejhg.2008.243; published online 17 December 2008
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