Lack of association between schizophrenia and the phospholipase-A2 genes cPLA2 and sPLA2

The well-established role of genetic factors in the etiology of schizophrenia together with reports of allelic association with cPLA2, a phospholipase-A2 gene, a reported increase of phospholipase-A2 activity, and the phospholipase-A2 hypothesis of Horrobin et al. [1995: Med Hypotheses 45:605-613] s...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Frieboes, Ralf-Michael (Author) , Henn, Fritz A. (Author)
Format: Article (Journal)
Language:English
Published: 26 March 2001
In: American journal of medical genetics
Year: 2001, Volume: 105, Issue: 3, Pages: 246-249
ISSN:1552-4833
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/ajmg.1262
Online Access:Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1002/ajmg.1262
Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ajmg.1262
Get full text
Author Notes:Ralf M. Frieboes, Hans W. Moises, Wagner F. Gattaz, Liu Yang, Tao Li, Xiehe Liu, Peter Vetter, Fabio Macciardi, Hai G. Hwu, and Fritz Henn
Description
Summary:The well-established role of genetic factors in the etiology of schizophrenia together with reports of allelic association with cPLA2, a phospholipase-A2 gene, a reported increase of phospholipase-A2 activity, and the phospholipase-A2 hypothesis of Horrobin et al. [1995: Med Hypotheses 45:605-613] strongly support cPLA2 (PLA2G4A) and sPLA2 (PLA2G1B) as candidate genes for schizophrenia. In search for allelic association between these phospholipase-A2 genes and schizophrenia, two samples of Chinese and European origins, in total 328 unrelated schizophrenic patients and their parents, were investigated using Falk and Rubinstein's haplotype relative risk method. Both genes showed marginally significant evidence for association in the total sample (P ≤ 0.05), which, however, did not survive the Bonferroni correction for multiple testing. In conclusion, our results do not provide support for the phospholipase-A2 hypothesis of schizophrenia. Additional studies will be necessary to rule out a possible confounding effect of niacin sensitivity as postulated by Hudson et al. [1999: Biol Psychiatr 46:401-405]. © 2001 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
Item Description:In Text ist die "2" bei A tiefgestellt
Gesehen am 09.11.2020
Physical Description:Online Resource
ISSN:1552-4833
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/ajmg.1262