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ArticleAnnals of general psychiatry2021

Association between clinical symptoms and apolipoprotein A1 or apolipoprotein B levels is regulated by apolipoprotein E variant rs429358 in patients with chronic schizophrenia.

Wenwang Rao, Xiangfei Meng, Keqing Li, Yunshu Zhang, Xiang Yang Zhang

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Article in Annals of general psychiatry, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Wenwang RaoDepartment of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3514-3082
Xiangfei MengDepartment of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Keqing LiInstitute of Mental Health, Hebei Mental Health Centre, Hebei, China.
Yunshu ZhangInstitute of Mental Health, Hebei Mental Health Centre, Hebei, China. yunshucoffee@sina.com.
Xiang Yang ZhangCAS Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 16 Lin Cui Road, Beijing, 100101, China. zhangxy@psych.ac.cn.
Douglas Mental Health University Institute · CAHebei General Hospital · CNHebei Mental Health Center · CNShandong Institute of Automation · CN

Funding

Government-funded Subsidy Project for Specialty Capacity-Building and Specialist Leaders 361014Key R&D Program of Science and Technology Department of Hebei Province 172777223National Natural Science Foundation of China 81371477
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Abstract

backgroundThe apolipoprotein E (ApoE) gene polymorphisms are correlated with blood lipid levels and several neuropsychiatric symptoms. Therefore, this study aimed to examine whether the ApoE rs429358 affected the development and clinical symptoms of schizophrenia and to explore the relationship between apolipoproteins levels and clinical symptoms.

methodsThe ApoE rs429358 was genotyped using a case-control design. The Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) was employed to evaluate the psychopathology of all patients.

resultsA total of 637 patients with schizophrenia and 467 healthy controls were recruited. We found no significant differences in the genotype and allele distribution between the patient and control groups. A significant correlation between PANSS negative symptoms and ApoA1 levels (p = 0.048) or ApoB levels (p = 0.001) was found in patients with schizophrenia, which was also confirmed by linear regression analyses (p = 0.048 vs. p = 0.001). Interestingly, only in the T homozygote group, ApoA1 and ApoB levels were predictors of the PANSS negative symptom score (p = 0.008 vs. p = 0.012), while in the C allele carrier group, no correlation was observed.

conclusionsThis study found that the levels of ApoA1 and ApoB were negatively associated with negative symptoms of patients with schizophrenia. Furthermore, the association between ApoA1 or ApoB levels and psychopathology of schizophrenia was regulated by ApoE rs429358.

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Apolipoprotein A1Apolipoprotein BApolipoprotein EClinical symptomsSchizophrenia

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