BACKGROUND: Several studies indicated that antipsychotic treatment response and side effect manifestation can be different due to inter-individual variability in genetic variations. AIM OF THE STUDY: Here we perform a case-control study to explore a potential association between schizophrenia and variants within the antipsychotic drug molecular targets (DRD1, DRD2, DRD3, HTR2A, HTR6) and metabolizing enzymes (CYP2D6, COMT) genes in Armenian population including also analysis of their possible relationship with disease clinical symptoms. METHODS: A total of 18 SNPs was studied in patients with schizophrenia (n = 78) and healthy control subjects (n = 77) using MassARRAY genotyping. RESULTS: We found that two studied genetic variants, namely DRD2 rs4436578*C and HTR2A rs6314*A are underrepresented in the group of patients compared to healthy subjects. After the correction for multiple testing, the rs4436578*C variant remained significant while the rs6314*A reported borderline significance. No significant differences in minor allele frequencies for other studied variants were identified. Also, a relationship between the genotypes and age of onset as well as disease duration has been detected. CONCLUSIONS: The DRD2 rs4436578*C genetic variant might have protective role against schizophrenia, at least in Armenians.
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- antipsychotika terapeutické užití MeSH
- cytochrom P-450 CYP2D6 genetika MeSH
- dopamin genetika metabolismus MeSH
- dospělí MeSH
- frekvence genu MeSH
- genetická predispozice k nemoci MeSH
- genetické asociační studie MeSH
- genotyp MeSH
- jednonukleotidový polymorfismus * MeSH
- katechol-O-methyltransferasa genetika MeSH
- lidé středního věku MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- metabolické sítě a dráhy genetika MeSH
- mladý dospělý MeSH
- receptory dopaminové genetika MeSH
- receptory serotoninové genetika MeSH
- schizofrenie farmakoterapie genetika MeSH
- senioři MeSH
- serotonin genetika metabolismus MeSH
- studie případů a kontrol MeSH
- Check Tag
- dospělí MeSH
- lidé středního věku MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- mladý dospělý MeSH
- mužské pohlaví MeSH
- senioři MeSH
- ženské pohlaví MeSH
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
- práce podpořená grantem MeSH
