Haplotypes in the expression quantitative trait locus of interleukin-1¦Â gene are associated with schizophrenia

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• 作者：Masakuni Yoshida ; Kyoichi Shiroiwa ; Kentaro Mouri ; Hiroki Ishiguro ; Irwan Supriyanto ; Woraphat Ratta-Apha ; Noriomi Eguchi ; Satoshi Okazaki ; Toru Sasada ; Masaaki Fukutake ; Takeshi Hashimoto ; Toshiya Inada ; Tadao Arinami ; Osamu Shirakawa ; Akitoyo Hishimoto
• 关键词：DSM-IV ; Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 4th edition ; eQTL ; expression quantitative trait loci ; GWAS ; genome-wide association study ; HWE ; Hardy&ndash ; Weinberg equilibrium ; LD ; linkage disequilibrium ; IL1B ; interleukin 1-¦Â ; SNP ; sing
• 刊名：Schizophrenia Research
• 出版年：2012
• 出版时间：September, 2012
• 年：2012
• 卷：140
• 期：1-3
• 页码：185-191
• 全文大小：616 K

文摘

Recent genome-wide association study (GWAS) and gene expression analyses have revealed that single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with complex diseases such as schizophrenia are significantly more likely to be associated with expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL). The interleukin-1¦Â (IL1B) gene has been strongly implicated in the susceptibility to schizophrenia. In order to test this association, we selected five tag SNPs in the eQTL of the IL1B gene and conducted a case-control study using two independent samples. The first sample comprised 528 schizophrenic patients and 709 controls and the second sample comprised 576 schizophrenic patients and 768 controls. We identified two SNPs and several haplotypes as being significantly associated with schizophrenia. Previous reports indicated that one major haplotype that was protective against schizophrenia reduced IL1B transcription, while two risk haplotypes for schizophrenia enhanced IL1B transcription. Therefore, we measured IL1B mRNA expression in PAXgene-stabilized whole blood from 40 schizophrenic patients and 40 controls to explore the possibility of using five tag SNPs as schizophrenic trait markers. A multiple regression analysis taking confounding factors into account revealed that the T allele of rs4848306 SNP, which is a protective allele for schizophrenia, predicted reduced change in IL1B mRNA expression, regardless of phenotype. Our results appear to support the previous hypothesis that IL1B contributes to the genetic risk of schizophrenia and warrant further research on the association of eQTL SNPs with schizophrenia.