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Ya-Jun Sun1, Ying Yu1, Gao-Ceng Zhu1
1Department of Clinical Laboratory, Affiliated Mental and Health Center of Nantong University, Nantong Fourth People's Hospital, Nantong 226001, Jiangsu, China.
Abstract:
Schizophrenia is one of the most common mental disorders to severely affect human health worldwide. Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) within related genes are candidate susceptible factors for the disorder. Rs107822 within MiR219-1 and rs1625579 within MiR137 were genotyped in 589 cases and 622 controls to investigate the possible association between the loci and schizophrenia in a Chinese population. Our results showed significant association between rs107822 and the disorder in allele (C vs. T: adjusted OR = 0.773, 95%CI = 0.655-0.912), co-dominant (TC vs. TT: adjusted OR = 0.734, 95%CI = 0.571-0.943; CC vs. TT: adjusted OR = 0.655, 95%CI = 0.459-0.936), dominant (TC + CC vs. TT: adjusted OR = 0.707, 95%CI = 0.559-0.895), and recessive (CC vs. TC + TT: adjusted OR = 0.724, 95%CI = 0.524-0.999) models, respectively. Meanwhile, negative associations were also observed between rs107822 and the disorder in male and female subgroups, and genotype CC of the locus was significantly associated with a lower positive symptom score of PANSS compared to genotype TT carrier in the cases group. However, we didn't observe a significant association between rs1625579 and the disorder. These findings indicate that rs107822 within MiR219-1 might be involved in pathogenesis of schizophrenia and that genotypes TC, CC and allele C of the locus are protective factors for schizophrenia in a Chinese population.
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