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. 2009 Jul 8:5:28.
doi: 10.1186/1744-9081-5-28.

Evidence for the association of the DAOA (G72) gene with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder but not for the association of the DAO gene with schizophrenia

Nicholas J Bass  1 , Susmita R Datta, Andrew McQuillin, Vinay Puri, Khalid Choudhury, Srinivasa Thirumalai, Jacob Lawrence, Digby Quested, Jonathan Pimm, David Curtis, Hugh Md Gurling
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Evidence for the association of the DAOA (G72) gene with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder but not for the association of the DAO gene with schizophrenia

Nicholas J Bass et al. Behav Brain Funct. .

Abstract

Background: Previous linkage and association studies have implicated the D-amino acid oxidase activator gene (DAOA)/G30 locus or neighbouring region of chromosome 13q33.2 in the genetic susceptibility to both schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Four single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) within the D-amino acid oxidase (DAO) gene located at 12q24.11 have also been found to show allelic association with schizophrenia.

Methods: We used the case control method to test for genetic association with variants at these loci in a sample of 431 patients with schizophrenia, 303 patients with bipolar disorder and 442 ancestrally matched supernormal controls all selected from the UK population.

Results: Ten SNPs spanning the DAOA locus were genotyped in these samples. In addition three SNPs were genotyped at the DAO locus in the schizophrenia sample. Allelic association was detected between the marker rs3918342 (M23), 3' to the DAOA gene and both schizophrenia (chi2 = 5.824 p = 0.016) and bipolar disorder (chi2 = 4.293 p = 0.038). A trend towards association with schizophrenia was observed for two other DAOA markers rs3916967 (M14, chi2 = 3.675 p = 0.055) and rs1421292 (M24; chi2 = 3.499 p = 0.062). A test of association between a three marker haplotype comprising of the SNPs rs778293 (M22), rs3918342 (M23) and rs1421292 (M24) and schizophrenia gave a global empirical significance of p = 0.015. No evidence was found to confirm the association of genetic markers at the DAO gene with schizophrenia.

Conclusion: Our results provide some support for a role for DAOA in susceptibility to schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

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Figure 1
Tests of linkage disequilibrium using D' between adjacent markers within the DAOA/G30 gene locus chromosome 13q33.2.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Tests of linkage disequilibrium using D' between adjacent markers within the DAO gene locus chromosome 12q24.11.
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