Mutation burden of rare variants in schizophrenia candidate genes.
Title | Mutation burden of rare variants in schizophrenia candidate genes. |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 2015 |
Authors | Girard SL, Dion PA, Bourassa CV, Geoffroy S, Lachance-Touchette P, Barhdadi A, Langlois M, Joober R, Krebs M-O, Dubé M-P, Rouleau GA |
Journal | PLoS One |
Volume | 10 |
Issue | 6 |
Pagination | e0128988 |
Date Published | 2015 |
ISSN | 1932-6203 |
Keywords | Adult, Algorithms, Case-Control Studies, E1A-Associated p300 Protein, Female, Gene Expression, Genetic Heterogeneity, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase 14, Mutation Rate, Nerve Tissue Proteins, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Schizophrenia |
Abstract | BACKGROUND: Schizophrenia (SCZ) is a very heterogeneous disease that affects approximately 1% of the general population. Recently, the genetic complexity thought to underlie this condition was further supported by three independent studies that identified an increased number of damaging de novo mutations DNM in different SCZ probands. While these three reports support the implication of DNM in the pathogenesis of SCZ, the absence of overlap in the genes identified suggests that the number of genes involved in SCZ is likely to be very large; a notion that has been supported by the moderate success of Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS).METHODS: To further examine the genetic heterogeneity of this disease, we resequenced 62 genes that were found to have a DNM in SCZ patients, and 40 genes that encode for proteins known to interact with the products of the genes with DNM, in a cohort of 235 SCZ cases and 233 controls.RESULTS: We found an enrichment of private nonsense mutations amongst schizophrenia patients. Using a kernel association method, we were able to assess for association for different sets. Although our power of detection was limited, we observed an increased mutation burden in the genes that have DNM. |
DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0128988 |
Alternate Journal | PLoS ONE |
PubMed ID | 26039597 |
PubMed Central ID | PMC4454531 |