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Tetsuya Marui1, Ohiko Hashimoto, Eiji Nanba
1Department of Psychiatry, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Japan.
Abstract:
Gastrin-releasing peptide receptor (GRPR) gene is considered a candidate locus for infantile autism for several reasons. The present study investigated two polymorphic sites (C/450/T and C/661/T) in the second exon of the GRPR gene in Japanese patients with autism (DSM-IV) and healthy subjects. The two polymorphic sites were at high linkage disequilirium, consistent with a previous study in a North American population. The C450-C661 allele, which was observed in one-third of the chromosomes from the North American subjects, was less frequent (6-7%) in the Japanese subjects, suggesting a large ethnic difference in the frequency of the polymorphism. The allele frequencies and genotype distributions were not significantly different between the patients and controls. However, further studies are required to exclude the GRPR locus as a candidate locus for autism, considering the low frequency of the polymorphism in the Japanese subjects.
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