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Genetics of autismE H Cook
Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, Committees of Genetics and Clinical Pharmacology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am 10:333-50. 2001..More genes increase the chance that one or more will have implications for treatment development sooner...
Linkage-disequilibrium mapping of autistic disorder, with 15q11-13 markersE H Cook
Department of Psychiatry, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Am J Hum Genet 62:1077-83. 1998..The convergence of GABRB3 as a positional and functional candidate along with the linkage-disequilibrium data suggests the need for further investigation of the role of GABRB3 or adjacent genes in autistic disorder...
Cocaine, ethanol, and genotype effects on human midbrain serotonin transporter binding sites and mRNA levelsK Y Little
Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Am J Psychiatry 155:207-13. 1998..The present investigation tested the hypothesis that brain serotonin transporter function is altered in chronic users of ethanol and cocaine, which might be related to a common serotonin transporter promoter polymorphism...
Genomic organization of the SLC1A1/EAAC1 gene and mutation screening in early-onset obsessive-compulsive disorderJ Veenstra-VanderWeele
Laboratory of Developmental Neuroscience, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of Chicago, MC3077, 5841 S Maryland Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Mol Psychiatry 6:160-7. 2001..No evidence was found for a functional mutation, but several SNPs were identified. Capillary electrophoresis SSCP typing of a haplotype consisting of two common SNPs within EAAC1 revealed no significant linkage disequilibrium...
Transmission disequilibrium mapping at the serotonin transporter gene (SLC6A4) region in autistic disorderS J Kim
Laboratory of Developmental Neuroscience, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry MC3077, University of Chicago, 5841 South Maryland Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Mol Psychiatry 7:278-88. 2002..Four markers showed stronger evidence of transmission disequilibrium (TDT(max) P = 0.0005) than 5-HTTLPR...
Transmission disequilibrium testing of arginine vasopressin receptor 1A (AVPR1A) polymorphisms in autismS J Kim
Laboratory of Developmental Neuroscience, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Mol Psychiatry 7:503-7. 2002..We also screened approximately 2 kb of the 5' flanking region and the coding region and identified 10 single nucleotide polymorphisms...
Autism and the serotonin transporter: the long and short of itB Devlin
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Mol Psychiatry 10:1110-6. 2005..Determining the factors influencing the relationship between autism phenotypes and HTTLPR variation, as well as other loci in SLC6A4, could be an important advance in our understanding of this complex disorder...
Physical mapping of the serotonin 5-HT(7) receptor gene (HTR7) to chromosome 10 and pseudogene (HTR7P) to chromosome 12, and testing of linkage disequilibrium between HTR7 and autistic disorderJ P Lassig
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Am J Med Genet 88:472-5. 1999..252, p = 0.602). Sequence data obtained from both intron 1 and intron 2 of HTR7, and from the 5-HT(7) pseudogene (HTR7P), was used to confirm localization of HTR7 to 10q23 and HTR7P to 12p13 using radiation hybrid analyses...
Sertraline in children and adolescents with obsessive-compulsive disorder: a multicenter randomized controlled trialJ S March
Department of Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
JAMA 280:1752-6. 1998..The serotonin reuptake inhibitors are the treatment of choice for patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder; however, empirical support for this assertion has been weaker for children and adolescents than for adults...
Platelet serotonin studies in hyperserotonemic relatives of children with autistic disorderE H Cook
Department of Psychiatry, University of Chicago, IL 60637
Life Sci 52:2005-15. 1993..Hyperserotonemia of autism may be heterogeneous with one subgroup of subjects with increased 5-HT uptake and another subgroup with decreased 5-HT2 binding...
Brain dopamine transporter messenger RNA and binding sites in cocaine users: a postmortem studyK Y Little
Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, and Ann Arbor Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 48105, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 55:793-9. 1998..The present experiment tested the hypothesis in cocaine-using humans that synthesis of midbrain DAT messenger RNA increases parallel with increased striatal DAT binding sites...
Quantifying the phenotype in autism spectrum disordersC Lord
The University of Chicago, Illinois, USA
Am J Med Genet 105:36-8. 2001....
The human aminophospholipid-transporting ATPase gene ATP10C maps adjacent to UBE3A and exhibits similar imprinted expressionL B Herzing
Department of Human Genetics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Am J Hum Genet 68:1501-5. 2001..The location and imprinted expression of ATP10C thus make it a candidate for chromosome 15-associated autism and suggest that it may contribute to the Angelman syndrome phenotype...
Mutation screening of human 5-HT(2B)receptor gene in early-onset obsessive-compulsive disorderS J Kim
Laboratory of Developmental Neuroscience, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry MC3077, 5841 S Maryland Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Mol Cell Probes 14:47-52. 2000..It does not appear likely to affect splicing. No evidence for functional mutation was found in the sequenced regions of HTR2B...
Interaction of prenatal exposure to cigarettes and MAOA genotype in pathways to youth antisocial behaviorL S Wakschlag
Institute for Juvenile Research, Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60608, USA
Mol Psychiatry 15:928-37. 2010..Future research to replicate and extend these findings should focus on elucidating how gene x exposure interactions may shape behavior through associated changes in brain function...
Rare inherited A2BP1 deletion in a proband with autism and developmental hemiparesisL K Davis
Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
Am J Med Genet A 158:1654-61. 2012..This study provides further support for the possible role of rare copy number variants in A2BP1 in the development of autism and associated motor asymmetries...
Molecular genetics of autism spectrum disorderJ Veenstra-VanderWeele
Department of Psychiatry, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Mol Psychiatry 9:819-32. 2004..We highlight other converging findings, point toward those areas most likely to yield results, and emphasize the contributions of multiple approaches to identifying the genes of interest...
Multisite, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of porcine secretin in autismT Owley
Department of Psychiatry, University of Chicago, IL 60637, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 40:1293-9. 2001..To examine the efficacy of intravenous porcine secretin for the treatment of autistic disorder...
Double-blind, placebo-controlled study of amantadine hydrochloride in the treatment of children with autistic disorderB H King
Department of Psychiatry, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH 03756 0001, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 40:658-65. 2001..To test the hypothesis that amantadine hydrochloride is a safe and effective treatment for behavioral disturbances--for example, hyperactivity and irritability--in children with autism...
Primary structure of the human platelet serotonin 5-HT2A receptor: identify with frontal cortex serotonin 5-HT2A receptorE H Cook
Department of Psychiatry, University of Chicago, Illinois 60637
J Neurochem 63:465-9. 1994..This finding may have implications in the study of neuropsychiatric disorders for which altered platelet 5-HT2A receptor binding has been demonstrated...
Association of attention-deficit disorder and the dopamine transporter geneE H Cook
Department of Psychiatry, University of Chicago, IL, USA
Am J Hum Genet 56:993-8. 1995..Biochemical analysis of such mutations may lead to development of more effective therapeutic interventions...
Long-term sertraline treatment of children and adolescents with obsessive-compulsive disorderE H Cook
Department of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, University of Chicago, IL 60637, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 40:1175-81. 2001..CONCLUSION: Sertraline (50-200 mg/day) was effective and generally well tolerated in the treatment of childhood and adolescent OCD for up to 52 weeks. Improvement was seen with continued treatment...
Association studies of serotonin system candidate genes in early-onset obsessive-compulsive disorderDiane E Dickel
Institute of Juvenile Research, Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Biol Psychiatry 61:322-9. 2007..Early-onset OCD is a more familial form of the disorder...
Association of dopamine transporter genotype with disruptive behavior disorders in an eight-year longitudinal study of children and adolescentsSteve S Lee
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095 1563, USA
Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 144:310-7. 2007..The inconsistent association between DAT1 and child behavior problems in this and other samples may reflect joint influence of the 10-repeat and 9-repeat alleles...
5-HTTLPR Genotype-Specific Phenotype in Children and Adolescents With AutismCamille W Brune
Institute for Juvenile Research, Department of Psychiatry M C 747, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1747 West Roosevelt Rd, Rm 155, Chicago, IL 60608, USA
Am J Psychiatry 163:2148-56. 2006..The heterogeneity in these reports may be due to clinical heterogeneity. The authors hypothesized that 5-HTTLPR genotypes would be related to variation in specific symptoms in children with autism...
Serotonin transporter genotype and acute subjective response to amphetamineDavid C Lott
Linden Oaks Hospital at Edward, Naperville, Illinois, USA
Am J Addict 15:327-35. 2006..The separate and combined analyses of the gene-linked polymorphic region (5-HTTLPR) and the Intron 2 VNTR suggest that these two HTT polymorphisms may contribute to acute subjective responses to d-amphetamine with a small effect...
Association testing of the positional and functional candidate gene SLC1A1/EAAC1 in early-onset obsessive-compulsive disorderDiane E Dickel
Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 63:778-85. 2006....
A common genetic variant in the neurexin superfamily member CNTNAP2 increases familial risk of autismDan E Arking
McKusick Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Am J Hum Genet 82:160-4. 2008..Importantly, the genetic variant displays a parent-of-origin and gender effect recapitulating the inheritance of autism...
ITGB3 shows genetic and expression interaction with SLC6A4Lauren A Weiss
Department of Human Genetics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Hum Genet 120:93-100. 2006..012) and SLC6A4 (P=0.008) in unrelated CEPH individuals. We also show preliminary evidence that genotypes at the ITGB3 and SLC6A4 loci may interact to affect autism susceptibility (P=0.033)...
Association between the casein kinase 1 epsilon gene region and subjective response to D-amphetamineJeremy Veenstra-Vanderweele
Institute of Juvenile Research, Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Neuropsychopharmacology 31:1056-63. 2006..001), which corresponded to a leftward shift in the dose-response curve. These findings demonstrate the successful translation of pharmacogenetic results from mice to humans...
Family-based association study of DAT1 and DRD4 polymorphism in Korean children with ADHDYoung Shin Kim
Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
Neurosci Lett 390:176-81. 2005..Future studies are necessary to test the hypothesis generated in this study that the 5-repeat allele of DRD4 is protective for hyperactive-impulsivity symptom severity compared to the 4-repeat allele...
Interindividual variation in anxiety response to amphetamine: possible role for adenosine A2A receptor gene variantsChrista Hohoff
Department of Psychiatry, University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany
Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 139:42-4. 2005..This is consistent with recent observations indicating a role for adenosine A(2A) receptor gene polymorphisms in anxiety...
Ancestry and pharmacogenetics of antileukemic drug toxicityShinji Kishi
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, St Jude Children s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105 2794, USA
Blood 109:4151-7. 2007..026). The genotype-phenotype associations were similar whether analyses were adjusted by self-reported race or ancestry-informative genetic markers. Germ-line polymorphisms are significant determinants of toxicity of antileukemic therapy...
Using the autism diagnostic interview--revised to increase phenotypic homogeneity in genetic studies of autismVanessa Hus
University of Michigan Autism and Communication Disorders Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Biol Psychiatry 61:438-48. 2007..Group differences in age, gender, IQ, and measures of autism severity are examined as related to Autism Diagnostic Interview-Revised (ADI-R) domains previously used for subsetting or Quantitative Trait Analysis (QTL)...
Copy-number variations associated with neuropsychiatric conditionsEdwin H Cook
Institute for Juvenile Research, Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois, 1747 West Roosevelt Road, Chicago, Illinois 60608, USA
Nature 455:919-23. 2008..The complexity of neuropsychiatric genetics, however, dictates that assessment of the biomedical relevance of copy-number variants and the genes that they affect needs to be considered in an integrated context...
Novel submicroscopic chromosomal abnormalities detected in autism spectrum disorderSusan L Christian
Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Biol Psychiatry 63:1111-7. 2008..e., microdeletions and microduplications that are undetectable at the level of traditional cytogenetic analysis, allows the potential association of submicroscopic chromosomal imbalances and human disease...
Transmission disequilibrium testing of the chromosome 15q11-q13 region in autismSoo Jeong Kim
Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 147:1116-25. 2008..Further investigation of the 15q11-q13 region with denser genotyping in a larger sample set may be necessary to determine whether this region confers risk to autism, indicated by association, or to specific autism phenotypes...
Recurrent 16p11.2 microdeletions in autismRavinesh A Kumar
Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Hum Mol Genet 17:628-38. 2008..Our work reports the first frequency, breakpoint, bioinformatic and phenotypic analyses of a de novo 16p11.2 microdeletion that represents one of the most common recurrent genomic disorders associated with autism to date...
Relationship of EGFR mutations, expression, amplification, and polymorphisms to epidermal growth factor receptor inhibitors in the NCI60 cell linesWanqing Liu
Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago, 5841 South Maryland Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Clin Cancer Res 13:6788-95. 2007..We aimed to determine if there are interactions between EGFR expression, mutations, polymorphisms, and gene amplification, and whether these factors are associated with variability in response to EGFR inhibitors...
Heterogeneous association between engrailed-2 and autism in the CPEA networkCamille W Brune
Department of Psychiatry, Institute for Juvenile Research, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 147:187-93. 2008..Future studies investigating EN2 should consider how the association of variants in this gene with autism could be influenced by differences in phenotype and possible interactions with genotypes at other autism candidate genes...
Evidence for a susceptibility locus on chromosome 10p15 in early-onset obsessive-compulsive disorderGregory L Hanna
Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105, USA
Biol Psychiatry 62:856-62. 2007..The goal of this study was to identify chromosomal regions likely to contain susceptibility loci for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)...
Molecular genetics of the platelet serotonin system in first-degree relatives of patients with autismSarah Cross
Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Neuropsychopharmacology 33:353-60. 2008..046). These initial studies of indices of the 5-HT system with several single-nucleotide polymorphisms at loci in this system generate hypotheses for testing in other samples...
Association of the oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR) in Caucasian children and adolescents with autismSuma Jacob
Institute for Juvenile Research, Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1747 West Roosevelt Road, Chicago, IL 60608, USA
Neurosci Lett 417:6-9. 2007..Overtransmission of different alleles in different populations may be due to a different pattern of linkage disequilibrium between the marker rs2254298 and an as yet undetermined susceptibility variant in OXTR...
Mapping autism risk loci using genetic linkage and chromosomal rearrangementsPeter Szatmari
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario L8N 3Z5, Canada
Nat Genet 39:319-28. 2007..Neurexins team with previously implicated neuroligins for glutamatergic synaptogenesis, highlighting glutamate-related genes as promising candidates for contributing to ASDs...
Norepinephrine transporter gene variation modulates acute response to D-amphetamineAndrea Dlugos
Department of Psychiatry, University of Munster, Munster, Germany
Biol Psychiatry 61:1296-305. 2007..Because the effects of amphetamine are mediated in part by the norepinephrine transporter (SLC6A2), we examined interindividual differences in mood response to amphetamine in relation to SLC6A2 gene polymorphisms...
Variation in ITGB3 is associated with whole-blood serotonin level and autism susceptibilityLauren A Weiss
Department of Human Genetics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Eur J Hum Genet 14:923-31. 2006..010 and 0.015). Lastly, we show that a coding variant of ITGB3 is associated with autism susceptibility in a large multiplex sample (P = 0.00082), and that this variation has different effects in males and females (P = 0.0018)...
Mutation screening and transmission disequilibrium study of ATP10C in autismSoo-Jeong Kim
Laboratory of Developmental Neuroscience, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry MC3077, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
Am J Med Genet 114:137-43. 2002....
Linkage disequilibrium of the brain-derived neurotrophic factor Val66Met polymorphism in children with a prepubertal and early adolescent bipolar disorder phenotypeBarbara Geller
Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 S Euclid Ave, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
Am J Psychiatry 161:1698-700. 2004..Transmission of the brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) Val66 allele in children with a prepubertal and early adolescent bipolar disorder phenotype was examined...
MECP2 structural and 3'-UTR variants in schizophrenia, autism and other psychiatric diseases: a possible association with autismAkane Shibayama
Department of Molecular Genetics and Diagnosis, City of Hope National Medical Center, 1500 East Duarte Road, Duarte, CA 91010 3000, USA
Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 128:50-3. 2004..009). These mutations suggest that a possible association between MECP2 mutations and autism may warrant further study...
Heritability and linkage analysis of sensitivity to cisplatin-induced cytotoxicityM Eileen Dolan
Department of Medicine, and Committee on Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacogenomics, University of Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
Cancer Res 64:4353-6. 2004..These data show the power of using large pedigrees that have been extensively genotyped for evaluating the genetic contribution to sensitivity to cell growth inhibition by anticancer agents...
Mutation scanning of the androgen receptor gene in patients with psychiatric disorders reveals highly conserved variants in alcoholic and phobia patientsJin Yan
Department of Molecular Genetics, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California 91010 3000, USA
Psychiatr Genet 14:57-60. 2004..R726L and P516S occur at highly conserved amino acids. Further study is required to assess whether these VAPSEs contribute to the risk of alcoholism or phobia or other diseases...
Interethnic difference in the allelic distribution of human epidermal growth factor receptor intron 1 polymorphismWanqing Liu
Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago, 5841 South Maryland Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Clin Cancer Res 9:1009-12. 2003..Therefore, the evaluation of the allelic distribution of this polymorphism in populations of various ethnic origins will be crucial to understand the interindividual variability in EGFR expression...
No evidence for linkage of liability to autism to HOXA1 in a sample from the CPEA networkBernie Devlin
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Am J Med Genet 114:667-72. 2002..Therefore, although we cannot exclude the possibility that the samples in the two studies are intrinsically different, our data from our sample argue against a major role for HOXA1 (His)73(Arg) in liability to autism...
Case series: Adderall augmentation of serotonin reuptake inhibitors in childhood-onset obsessive compulsive disorderThomas Owley
Section of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
J Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol 12:165-71. 2002..In this case series, we describe four patients with childhood-onset obsessive compulsive disorder, and with partial or no response to SSRI treatment, who subsequently had a reduction of their symptoms with Adderall augmentation...
Genome-wide linkage analysis of families with obsessive-compulsive disorder ascertained through pediatric probandsGregory L Hanna
Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 0390, USA
Am J Med Genet 114:541-52. 2002..73 on 19q. The maximum multipoint LOD score with a recessive model was 1.40 on 6p. The results provide suggestive evidence for linkage on 9p and identify regions requiring further study with much larger samples...
Transmission disequilibrium studies of the serotonin 5-HT2A receptor gene (HTR2A) in autismJeremy Veenstra-Vanderweele
Laboratory of Developmental Neuroscience, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
Am J Med Genet 114:277-83. 2002..No evidence was found for unequal transmission of haplotypes; however, power analysis reveals low power to detect a parent-of-origin effect in this sample size...
Serotonin transporter promoter polymorphism, peripheral indexes of serotonin function, and personality measures in families with alcoholismScott F Stoltenberg
University of Michigan Addiction Research Center and Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48108, USA
Am J Med Genet 114:230-4. 2002..The results of this pilot study suggest that further work should examine the mediation of the genetic effects on personality traits by biochemical measures and their moderation by gender...
Determination and analysis of single nucleotide polymorphisms and haplotype structure of the human carboxylesterase 2 geneMichael H Wu
Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Pharmacogenetics 14:595-605. 2004..03). The 5'-UTR-363 SNP is located in one of the three promoters of CES2. However, we did not observe significant differences in CES2 activities (irinotecan and procaine hydrolysis) among individuals with different haplotypes...
Autism as a paradigmatic complex genetic disorderJeremy Veenstra-Vanderweele
Departments of Psychiatry, The University of Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
Annu Rev Genomics Hum Genet 5:379-405. 2004..However, it is essential that the restricted interests of patients with autism not be reflected in overly restrictive genetic approaches if we are to better understand the genetics of autism in the most expeditious and thorough manner...
An open-label trial of escitalopram in pervasive developmental disordersThomas Owley
Department of Psychiatry, University of Chicago MC 3077, 5841 South Maryland Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 44:343-8. 2005..To assess the effect of escitalopram in the treatment of pervasive developmental disorders (PDDs)...
Dopamine transporter gene associated with diminished subjective response to amphetamineDavid C Lott
Department of Psychiatry, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Neuropsychopharmacology 30:602-9. 2005..The current findings have important implications for understanding the genetic determinants of variability in stimulant response and risk of abuse...
Dopamine transporter genotype and methylphenidate dose response in children with ADHDMark A Stein
Department of Psychiatry, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Neuropsychopharmacology 30:1374-82. 2005..Further research is needed to determine the mechanisms related to poor response in patients with the 9/9-repeat genotype, and to determine if this group responds differentially to alternative treatments...
Structural variants in the retinoid receptor genes in patients with schizophrenia and other psychiatric diseasesJinong Feng
Department of Molecular Genetics, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California 91010 3000, USA
Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 133:50-3. 2005..One uncommon missense variant was found in each of the RARbeta, RARgamma, and RXRgamma genes. We conclude that structural variants in the RAR/RXR and NURR1 genes do not play a major role in the etiology of schizophrenia...
Pharmacogenetics of outcome in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemiaJose Claudio C Rocha
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Saint Jude Children s Research Hospital of the University of Tennessee, Memphis 38105 2794, USA
Blood 105:4752-8. 2005..04). The GSTM1 non-null and TYMS 3/3 genotypes are plausibly linked to drug resistance. Polymorphisms interact to influence antileukemic outcome and represent determinants of response that can be used to optimize therapy...
High frequency of neurexin 1beta signal peptide structural variants in patients with autismJinong Feng
Department of Molecular Genetics, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA 91010 3000, USA
Neurosci Lett 409:10-3. 2006..In addition, no structural variant was found in the neurexin 2beta gene and the neurexin 3beta gene. In the context of all available data, we conclude that mutations of the neurexin 1beta gene may contribute to autism susceptibility...
Are the arginine vasopressin V1a receptor microsatellites related to hypersexuality in children with a prepubertal and early adolescent bipolar disorder phenotype?Barbara Geller
Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
Bipolar Disord 7:610-6. 2005..Preferential transmission of the number of AVPR1A microsatellite repeats to hypersexual and uninhibited people-seeking probands was hypothesized, based on reports from preclinical work in the literature...
A double-blind, placebo-controlled study of valproate for aggression in youth with pervasive developmental disordersJessica A Hellings
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas 66160, USA
J Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol 15:682-92. 2005..The aim of this study was to study valproate efficacy and safety for aggression in children and adolescents with pervasive developmental disorders (PDD)...
Pharmacogenetics of minimal residual disease response in children with B-precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia: a report from the Children's Oncology GroupStella M Davies
Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children s Hospital and Medical Center, OH 45230, USA
Blood 111:2984-90. 2008..009, logistic regression), when comparing "best" and "worst" risk groups. These data are consistent with growing evidence that both acquired and host genetics influence response to cancer therapy...
Interactions between integrin alphaIIbbeta3 and the serotonin transporter regulate serotonin transport and platelet aggregation in mice and humansAna Marin D Carneiro
Department of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee 37232 8548, USA
J Clin Invest 118:1544-52. 2008....
Allele-specific expression analysis by RNA-FISH demonstrates preferential maternal expression of UBE3A and imprint maintenance within 15q11- q13 duplicationsLaura B K Herzing
Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Hum Mol Genet 11:1707-18. 2002....
Variation in ITGB3 has sex-specific associations with plasma lipoprotein(a) and whole blood serotonin levels in a population-based sampleLauren A Weiss
Department of Human Genetics, The University of Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Hum Genet 117:81-7. 2005..Our results suggest that variation in ITGB3 in addition to Leu33Pro could contribute to susceptibility to CVD and serotonin in a sex-specific manner...
Vitamin D receptor variants in 192 patients with schizophrenia and other psychiatric diseasesJin Yan
Department of Molecular Genetics and Molecular Diagnosis, City of Hope National Medical Center, 1500 East Duarte Road, Duarte, CA 91010 3000, USA
Neurosci Lett 380:37-41. 2005..In conclusion, we describe three novel structural variants of the Vitamin D receptor. Further study is required to clarify their role, if any, in psychiatric disease...
Characterization of multiple promoters in the human carboxylesterase 2 geneMichael H Wu
Section of Haematology Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637 1470, USA
Pharmacogenetics 13:425-35. 2003..These findings shed some light on CES2 gene regulation, a gene important in the metabolism of many drugs...
Between a ROC and a hard place: decision making and making decisions about using the SCQChristina Corsello
University of California, San Diego, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 48:932-40. 2007....
A prospective, open-label trial of memantine in the treatment of cognitive, behavioral, and memory dysfunction in pervasive developmental disordersThomas Owley
University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Psychiatry, Institute for Juvenile Research, Chicago, Illinois 60608, USA
J Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol 16:517-24. 2006..This pilot study examined the effectiveness of memantine hydrochloride in improving cognitive functioning and behavioral symptoms in children with pervasive developmental disorders (PDDs)...
An association study of the brain-derived neurotrophic factor Val66Met polymorphism and amphetamine responseBrody A Flanagin
Department of Psychiatry, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 141:576-83. 2006..These results suggest that BDNF is related to the subjective and physical response to low doses of AMPH...
Pharmacogenetic risk factors for osteonecrosis of the hip among children with leukemiaMary V Relling
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, St Jude Children s Research Hospital, 332 N Lauderdale, Memphis, TN 38105 2794, USA
J Clin Oncol 22:3930-6. 2004..Putative risk factors for osteonecrosis have included being female, white race, and older age. Our goal was to define possible genetic risk factors for osteonecrosis among children treated for newly diagnosed ALL...
Genome-wide association study identifies ITGB3 as a QTL for whole blood serotoninLauren A Weiss
Department of Human Genetics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Eur J Hum Genet 12:949-54. 2004..8 x 10(-5)). This variant explained the evidence for linkage in this region when included as a covariate in the linkage analysis (change in LOD from 1.87 to 0.16), indicating that ITGB3 may be an important serotonin QTL...
Genetic studies of stuttering in a founder populationJacqueline K Wittke Thompson
Department of Human Genetics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, United States
J Fluency Disord 32:33-50. 2007....
New complexities in the genetics of stuttering: significant sex-specific linkage signalsRathi Suresh
Department of Genetics and Development, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Am J Hum Genet 78:554-63. 2006..Our results support the hypothesis that the genetic component to stuttering has significant sex effects...
Effects of prednisone and genetic polymorphisms on etoposide disposition in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemiaShinji Kishi
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, St Jude Children s Research Hospital, University of Tennessee, Memphis, TN 38105, USA
Blood 103:67-72. 2004..Prednisone strongly induces etoposide clearance, genetic polymorphisms may predict the constitutive and induced clearance of etoposide, and the relationship between genotype and phenotype differs by race...
Homocysteine, pharmacogenetics, and neurotoxicity in children with leukemiaShinji Kishi
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, St Jude Children s Research Hospital, 332 North Lauderdale, Memphis, TN 38105, USA
J Clin Oncol 21:3084-91. 2003....
Remission status after long-term sertraline treatment of pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorderKaren Dineen Wagner
Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas 77555, USA
J Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol 13:S53-60. 2003..More research is needed to develop pharmacologic and psychotherapeutic strategies that facilitate the achievement of full remission in the remaining patients suffering from this chronic and disabling illness...
Global gene expression as a function of germline genetic variationDeborah French
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, St Jude Children s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105 2794, USA
Hum Mol Genet 14:1621-9. 2005....
