Analysis of the VAV3 as candidate gene for schizophrenia: evidences from voxel-based morphometry and mutation screening.

ABSTRACT: In recently completed Japanese genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of schizophrenia (JPN_GWAS) one of the top association signals was detected in the region of VAV3, a gene that maps to the chromosome 1p13.3. In order to complement JPN_GWAS findings, we tested the association of rs1410403 with brain structure in healthy individuals and schizophrenic patients and performed exon resequencing of VAV3. We performed voxel-based morphometry (VBM) and mutation screening of VAV3. Four independent samples were used in the present study: (1) for VBM analysis, we used case-control sample comprising 100 patients with schizophrenia and 264 healthy controls, (2) mutation analysis was performed on a total of 321 patients suffering from schizophrenia, and 2 case-control samples (3) 729 unrelated patien

SUBMITTER: Aleksic B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3627762 | biostudies-literature | 2013 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature