Abstract
We screened for variation in the 12 protocadherin γ A (PCDHGA) genes of the protocadherin cluster on chromosome 5q31. We used denaturing high-performance liquid chromatography followed by sequencing to identify changes in the DNA sequence. We identified 24 nonsynonymous changes, 24 synonymous SNPs, and 9 polymorphisms in the 5′ flanking regions. The variant with the greatest predicted impact on the encoded protein was a frameshift polymorphism in PCDHGA8, caused by a deletion of one C base (Pro174fsdelC). The del variant was more common in 512 controls compared to 506 schizophrenic (SZ) cases (10.6% vs 7.2%, p = 0.007) but this trend was not replicated in an independent sample of 403 trios, in which it was transmitted 47 times and not transmitted 55 times from heterozygous parents (p = 0.43). We screened 10 of the common polymorphisms for association with schizophrenia by genotyping pooled DNA from 540 SZ cases and 540 controls, but none of them showed a significant difference. It will be important to identify the phenotype associated with the loss of the PCDHGA8 gene.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 433-440 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Genomics |
Volume | 82 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Oct 1 2003 |
Keywords
- Association
- Gene
- Liquid chromatography
- Mutation
- Polymorphism
- Protocadherin γ
- Schizophrenia
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Genetics