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  • Title: Association of the carboxyl-terminal PDZ ligand of neuronal nitric oxide synthase gene with schizophrenia in the Chinese Han population.
    Author: Zheng Y, Li H, Qin W, Chen W, Duan Y, Xiao Y, Li C, Zhang J, Li X, Feng G, He L.
    Journal: Biochem Biophys Res Commun; 2005 Mar 25; 328(4):809-15. PubMed ID: 15707951.
    Abstract:
    Several independent linkage studies have demonstrated that the 1q22 region is likely to harbor candidate schizophrenia susceptibility genes. Recently, some genetic variants within CAPON have been reported as exhibiting significant linkage disequilibrium to schizophrenia in Canadian familial-schizophrenia pedigrees. We examined nine single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), which span an approximately 236-kb region of CAPON, in 664 schizophrenia cases and 941 controls in the Chinese Han population. We detected a significant difference in allele distributions of SNP rs348624 (P = 0.000017). Moreover, the overall frequency of haplotypes constructed from three SNPs including rs348624 showed significant difference between cases and controls (P = 0.000025). Our findings indicate that CAPON gene may be a candidate susceptibility gene for schizophrenia in Chinese Han population, and also provide further support for the potential importance of NMDAR-mediated glutamatergic transmission in the etiology of schizophrenia.
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