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ArticleBiological psychiatry2008

An association analysis of murine anxiety genes in humans implicates novel candidate genes for anxiety disorders.

Jonas Donner, Sami Pirkola, Kaisa Silander, Laura Kananen, Joseph D Terwilliger, Jouko Lönnqvist, Leena Peltonen, Iiris Hovatta

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Article in Biological psychiatry, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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23 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 62 citations in OpenAlex.

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8 authors at 6 institutions in 3 countries.

Jonas DonnerResearch Program of Molecular Neurology, Biomedicum Helsinki, Finland; Department of Medical Genetics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Department of Molecular Medicine, National Public Health Institute and FIMM, Institute of Molecular Medicine Finland, Helsinki, Finland.
Sami PirkolaDepartment of Mental Health and Alcohol Research, National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland; Department of Psychiatry, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland.
Kaisa SilanderDepartment of Molecular Medicine, National Public Health Institute and FIMM, Institute of Molecular Medicine Finland, Helsinki, Finland.
Laura KananenResearch Program of Molecular Neurology, Biomedicum Helsinki, Finland; Department of Medical Genetics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Department of Molecular Medicine, National Public Health Institute and FIMM, Institute of Molecular Medicine Finland, Helsinki, Finland.
Joseph D TerwilligerFaculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Department of Genetics and Development, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia Genome Center, Columbia University, New York, New York; Division of Medical Genetics, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, New York.
Jouko LönnqvistDepartment of Mental Health and Alcohol Research, National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland; Department of Psychiatry, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland.
Leena PeltonenDepartment of Medical Genetics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Department of Molecular Medicine, National Public Health Institute and FIMM, Institute of Molecular Medicine Finland, Helsinki, Finland; The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Iiris HovattaResearch Program of Molecular Neurology, Biomedicum Helsinki, Finland; Department of Medical Genetics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Department of Molecular Medicine, National Public Health Institute and FIMM, Institute of Molecular Medicine Finland, Helsinki, Finland; Department of Mental Health and Alcohol Research, National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland. Electronic address: iiris.hovatta@helsinki.fi.
Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland · FIUniversity of Helsinki · FIFinnish Foundation for Alcohol Studies · FIHelsinki University Hospital · FINew York State Psychiatric InstitutePublic Health Institute · US

Funding

Wellcome Trust 089061
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundHuman anxiety disorders are complex diseases with largely unknown etiology. We have taken a cross-species approach to identify genes that regulate anxiety-like behavior with inbred mouse strains that differ in their innate anxiety levels as a model. We previously identified 17 genes with expression levels that correlate with anxiety behavior across the studied strains. In the present study, we tested their 13 known human homologues as candidate genes for human anxiety disorders with a genetic association study.

methodsWe describe an anxiety disorder study sample derived from a Finnish population-based cohort and consisting of 321 patients and 653 carefully matched control subjects, all interviewed to obtain DSM-IV diagnoses. We genotyped altogether 208 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) (all non-synonymous SNPs, SNPs that alter potential microRNA binding sites, and gap-filling SNPs selected on the basis of HapMap information) from the investigated anxiety candidate genes.

resultsSpecific alleles and haplotypes of six of the examined genes revealed some evidence for association (p < or = .01). The most significant evidence for association with different anxiety disorder subtypes were: p = .0009 with ALAD (delta-aminolevulinate dehydratase) in social phobia, p = .009 with DYNLL2 (dynein light chain 2) in generalized anxiety disorder, and p = .004 with PSAP (prosaposin) in panic disorder.

conclusionsOur findings suggest that variants in these genes might predispose to specific human anxiety disorders. These results illustrate the potential utility of cross-species approaches in identification of candidate genes for psychiatric disorders.

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Genome-Wide Association StudyAnimalsAnxiety DisordersCase-Control StudiesCohort StudiesDisease Models, AnimalGene Expression ProfilingGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseGenotypeHumansMatched-Pair AnalysisMiceNerve Tissue ProteinsPolymorphism, Single NucleotideNerve Tissue Proteins

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PMID18639233
PMCPMC2682432
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