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Allelic association between dinucleotide repeats at the monoamine oxidase loci and schizophrenia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

J Wei  and
GP Hammings
J Wei
Affiliation:
Institute of Biological Psychiatry, Schizophrenia Association of Great Britain, Bryn Hyfryd, The Crescent, Bangor, GwyneddLL.57 2AG, UK
GP Hammings
Affiliation:
Institute of Biological Psychiatry, Schizophrenia Association of Great Britain, Bryn Hyfryd, The Crescent, Bangor, GwyneddLL.57 2AG, UK
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Summary

Two X-linked microsatellites, (AC)n repeats at the monoamine oxidase (MAO) A locus and (TG)n repeats at the MAO-B locus, were typed by using a PCR-based procedure in 89 nuclear families consisting of mothers, fathers and female affected offspring with schizophrenia or mothers and male affected offspring. A haplotype-based haplotype relative risk (HHRR) approach was applied to detect allelic association of these two microsatellites with schizophrenia. In the families of male patients, a significant difference in frequency distribution was found between transmitted and non-transmitted (TG)n repeats (χ2 = 15.13, df = 6, P = 0.019), and Fisher's exact test showed that allelic frequency of the transmitted (TG)24 was significantly higher than that of the non-transmitted (TG)24 (Fisher's P = 0.003). However, no significant differences in frequency distribution between mother- or father-transmitted and non-transmitted (TG)n repeats were found in the families of female patients. No significant differences in frequency distribution were found between transmitted and non-transmitted (AC)n repeats in the families of either male patients or female patients. The present study suggests that the MAO-B gene may be associated with schizophrenia, and the underlying genetic mechanism of schizophrenia may differ between male and female schizophrenic individuals.

Keywords

monoamine oxidasegenemicrosatellitepolymerase chain reaction (PCR)schizophrenia
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Research Article
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European Psychiatry , Volume 13 , Issue 8 , December 1998 , pp. 407 - 410
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Copyright © Elsevier, Paris 1998

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