Association Study of Nonsynonymous Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in Schizophrenia

Noa Carrera, Manuel Arrojo, Julio Sanjuan, Ramon Ramos-Rios, Eduardo Paz, Jose J. Suarez-Rama, Mario Paramo, Santiago Agra, Julio Brenlla, Silvia Martinez, Olga Rivero, David A. Collier, Aarno Palotie, Sven Cichon, Markus M. Noethen, Marcella Rietschel, Dan Rujescu, Hreinn Stefansson, Stacy Steinberg, Engilbert SigurdssonDavid St Clair, Sarah Tosato, Thomas Werge, Kari Stefansson, Jose Carlos Gonzalez, Joaquin Valero, Alfonso Gutierez-Zotes, Antonio Labad, Lourdes Martorell, Elisabet Vilella, Angel Carracedo, Javier Costas

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Abstract

Background: Genome-wide association studies using several hundred thousand anonymous markers present limited statistical power. Alternatively, association studies restricted to common nonsynonymous single nucleotide polymorphisms (nsSNPs) have the advantage of strongly reducing the multiple testing problem, while increasing the probability of testing functional single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). Methods: We performed a case-control association study of common nsSNPs in Galician (northwest Spain) samples using the Affymetrix GeneChip Human 20k cSNP Kit, followed by a replication study of the more promising results. After quality control procedures, the discovery sample consisted of 5100 nsSNPs at minor allele frequency >5% analyzed in 476 schizophrenia patients and 447 control subjects. The replication sample consisted of 4069 cases and 15,128 control subjects of European origin. We also performed multilocus analysis, using aggregated scores of nsSNPs at liberal significance thresholds and cross-validation procedures. Results: The 5 independent nsSNPs with false discovery rate q
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)169 - 177
Number of pages9
JournalBiological psychiatry
Volume71
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 Jan 2012

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