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  • Title: No association between genetic variants at the ASCT1 gene and schizophrenia or bipolar disorder in a German sample.
    Author: Skowronek MH, Georgi A, Jamra RA, Schumacher J, Becker T, Schmael C, Paul T, Deschner M, Höfels S, Wulff M, Schwarz M, Klopp N, Illig T, Propping P, Cichon S, Nöthen MM, Schulze TG, Rietschel M.
    Journal: Psychiatr Genet; 2006 Dec; 16(6):233-4. PubMed ID: 17106422.
    Abstract:
    Altered glutamatergic neurotransmission is considered a potential etiological factor of schizophrenia (SCZ) and affective disorders. The gene ASCT1 (SLC1A4) coding for a Na+-dependent neutral aminoacid transporter is a member of the glutamate transporter superfamily and is located on 2p13-14, a region showing linkage to both SCZ and bipolar disorder (BD). ASCT1 can thus be considered a candidate gene for both disorders. In a German sample, we tested for association between ASCT1 and both SCZ and BD. Allele and haplotype frequencies, however, did not differ between cases and controls. Recent findings on the associations between brainderived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and SCZ and between G72/G30 and BD suggest that SCZ patients with a history of major depressive episodes (MDE) outside psychotic episodes and BD cases with a history of persecutory delusions constitute genetically distinct subgroups of these disorders. Thus, we hypothesized that restricting case definition to those 95 SCZ individuals with MDE and to those 107 BD patients with a history of persecutory delusions might clarify the relationship between BD, SCZ and ASCT1. However, these stratification approaches did not yield any significant association either. Allele and haplotype frequencies did not differ between cases and controls. Our results do not support an association of the ASCT1 gene with BD or SCZ in the German population.
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