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Systematic search for variations in the tyrosine hydroxylase gene and their associations with schizophrenia, affective disorders, and alcoholism

✍ Scribed by Ishiguro, Hiroki; Arinami, Tadao; Saito, Toshikazu; Akazawa, Shigeru; Enomoto, Minoru; Mitushio, Hiroshi; Fujishiro, Hiroshi; Tada, Kunimaro; Akimoto, Yutaka; Mifune, Hideo; Shiozuka, Shinichi; Hamaguchi, Hideo; Toru, Michio; Shibuya, Haruo

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1998
Tongue: English
Weight: 91 KB
Volume: 81
Category: Article
ISSN: 0148-7299
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-8628(19980907)81:5<388::aid-ajmg7>3.0.co;2-p

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✦ Synopsis

Tyrosine hydroxylase is the rate-limiting step in the biosynthesis of catecholamines. To find variants in the tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) gene that are associated with schizophrenia, mood disorders, or alcohol dependence, all of the exons, the exon-intron boundaries, and the 5 promoter region of the TH gene were systematically screened for variants by single-strand conformation polymorphism analysis followed by direct nucleotide sequencing. Source DNAs for sequencing were from 88 Japanese patients comprised of 17 schizophrenics, 21 with mood disorders, and 50 alcoholics. Two novel variants, T-229A and Val468Met, were identified. Case-control comparisons demonstrated that distribution of these two variants were similar in the controls and the three psychiatric groups. Distributions of the previously reported Val81Met polymorphism alleles and the intron 1 TCAT repeat polymorphism alleles were similar in the four subject groups. Our study indicates that the TH gene is not likely to play a major role in the genetic predisposition to schizo-

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