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Association study of schizophrenia with variants in miR-137 binding sites

Curtis, D; Emmett, W; (2018) Association study of schizophrenia with variants in miR-137 binding sites. Schizophrenia Research , 197 pp. 346-348. 10.1016/j.schres.2017.11.018. Green open access

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Abstract

There is strong cumulative evidence for the involvement of miR-137 and its targets in the aetiology of schizophrenia. Here we test whether variants, especially rare variants, in miR-137 binding sites are associated with schizophrenia in an exome-sequenced sample of 4225 cases and 5834 controls. Only a small proportion of binding sites were covered by the capture system which had been used. A weighted burden test using the 372 detected variants demonstrated an excess among cases significant at p=0.024. The sample size is too small to implicate individual variants or genes but overall this finding does provide some further support for the hypothesis that disruption of miR-137 binding sites can increase the risk of schizophrenia, perhaps by leading to over-expression of the target gene. We recommend that future exome sequencing studies should cover the untranscribed regions of genes, which contain the microRNA binding sites, in order that this potentially important pathogenic mechanism can be adequately investigated.

Type: Article
Title: Association study of schizophrenia with variants in miR-137 binding sites
Location: Netherlands
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2017.11.018
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2017.11.018
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Schizophrenia, miR-137, microRNA
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Div of Biosciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Div of Biosciences > Genetics, Evolution and Environment
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10042647
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