SynthesisSchizophrenia bulletin2015
Common variants in the MKL1 gene confer risk of schizophrenia.
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- Enhancing schizophrenia treatment efficacy: The combined impact of Yueju pill and olanzapine through quercetin target modulation.World journal of psychiatry · 2025Article
- Impact of adverse childhood experiences on educational achievements in young people at clinical high risk of developing psychosis.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2023Article
- SRF in Neurochemistry: Overview of Recent Advances in Research on the Nervous System.Neurochemical research · 2022Review
- SRF depletion in early life contributes to social interaction deficits in the adulthood.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2022Article
- Downregulation by CNNM2 of ATP5MD expression in the 10q24.32 schizophrenia-associated locus involved in impaired ATP production and neurodevelopment.NPJ schizophrenia · 2021Article
- Regulation of Dendritic Synaptic Morphology and Transcription by the SRF Cofactor MKL/MRTF.Frontiers in molecular neuroscience · 2021Review
- Loss of serum response factor in mature neurons in the dentate gyrus alters the morphology of dendritic spines and hippocampus-dependent behavioral tasks.Brain structure & function · 2019Article
- Synaptic localisation of SRF coactivators, MKL1 and MKL2, and their role in dendritic spine morphology.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Genetic association of rs1344706 in ZNF804A with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia susceptibility in Chinese populations.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Currently recognized genes for schizophrenia: High-resolution chromosome ideogram representation.American journal of medical genetics. Part B, Neuropsychiatric genetics : the official publication of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics · 2016Article
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Abstract
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of schizophrenia have identified multiple risk variants with robust association signals for schizophrenia. However, these variants could explain only a small proportion of schizophrenia heritability. Furthermore, the effect size of these risk variants is relatively small (eg, most of them had an OR less than 1.2), suggesting that additional risk variants may be detected when increasing sample size in analysis. Here, we report the identification of a genome-wide significant schizophrenia risk locus at 22q13.1 by combining 2 large-scale schizophrenia cohort studies. Our meta-analysis revealed that 7 single nucleotide polymorphism (SNPs) on chromosome 22q13.1 reached the genome-wide significance level (P < 5.0×10(-8)) in the combined samples (a total of 38441 individuals). Among them, SNP rs6001946 had the most significant association with schizophrenia (P = 2.04×10(-8)). Interestingly, all 7 SNPs are in high linkage disequilibrium and located in the MKL1 gene. Expression analysis showed that MKL1 is highly expressed in human and mouse brains. We further investigated functional links between MKL1 and proteins encoded by other schizophrenia susceptibility genes in the whole human protein interaction network. We found that MKL1 physically interacts with GSK3B, a protein encoded by a well-characterized schizophrenia susceptibility gene. Collectively, our results revealed that genetic variants in MKL1 might confer risk to schizophrenia. Further investigation of the roles of MKL1 in the pathogenesis of schizophrenia is warranted.
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