Candidate gene analysis of the human natural killer-1 carbohydrate pathway and perineuronal nets in schizophrenia: B3GAT2 is associated with disease risk and cortical surface area

Anna K. Kähler; Srdjan Djurovic; Lars M. Rimol; Andrew A. Brown; Lavinia Athanasiu; Erik G. Jönsson; Thomas Hansen; Ómar Gústafsson; Håkan Hall; Ina Giegling; Pierandrea Muglia; Sven Cichon; Marcella Rietschel; Olli P. H. Pietiläinen; Leena Peltonen; Elvira Bramon; David Collier; David St Clair; Engilbert Sigurdsson; Hannes Petursson; Dan Rujescu; Ingrid Melle; Thomas Werge; Vidar M. Steen; Anders M Dale; Russell T Matthews; Ingrid Agartz; Ole A. Andreassen

doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2010.07.035

Candidate gene analysis of the human natural killer-1 carbohydrate pathway and perineuronal nets in schizophrenia: B3GAT2 is associated with disease risk and cortical surface area

Anna K. Kähler, Srdjan Djurovic, Lars M. Rimol, Andrew A. Brown, Lavinia Athanasiu, Erik G. Jönsson, Thomas Hansen, Ómar Gústafsson, Håkan Hall, Ina Giegling, Pierandrea Muglia, Sven Cichon, Marcella Rietschel, Olli P. H. Pietiläinen, Leena Peltonen, Elvira Bramon, David Collier, David St Clair, Engilbert Sigurdsson, Hannes PeturssonDan Rujescu, Ingrid Melle, Thomas Werge, Vidar M. Steen, Anders M Dale, Russell T Matthews, Ingrid Agartz, Ole A. Andreassen

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Abstract

Background
The Human Natural Killer-1 carbohydrate (HNK-1) is involved in neurodevelopment and synaptic plasticity. Extracellular matrix structures called perineuronal nets, condensed around subsets of neurons and proximal dendrites during brain maturation, regulate synaptic transmission and plasticity.

Methods
Ten genes of importance for HNK-1 biosynthesis (B3GAT1, B3GAT2, and CHST10) or for the formation of perineuronal nets (TNR, BCAN, NCAN, HAPLN1, HAPLN2, HAPLN3, and HAPLN4) were investigated for potential involvement in schizophrenia (SCZ) susceptibility, by genotyping 104 tagSNPs in the Scandinavian Collaboration on Psychiatric Etiology sample (849 cases; 1602 control subjects). Genome-wide association study imputation data from the European SGENE-plus sample (2663 cases; 13,498 control subjects) were used for comparison. The effect of SCZ risk alleles on brain structure was investigated in a Norwegian subset (98 cases; 177 control subjects) with structural magnetic resonance imaging data.

Results
Five single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), located in two adjacent estimated linkage disequilibrium blocks in the first intron of ß-1,3-glucuronyltransferase 2 (B3GAT2), were nominally associated with SCZ (.004 = Pempirical = .05). The rs2460691 was significantly associated in the comparison sample and in the meta-analysis after correction for all 121 SNP/haplotype tests (Praw = 1 × 10-4; Pcorrected = .018). Increased dosage of the rs2460691 SCZ risk allele was associated with decreased cortical area (p = .002) but not thickness or hippocampal volume. A second SNP (r2 = .24 with rs10945275), which conferred the highest SCZ risk effect in the Norwegian subset, was also associated with cortical area.

Conclusions
The present results suggest that effects on biosynthesis of the neuronal epitope HNK-1, through common B3GAT2 variation, could increase the risk of SCZ, possibly by decreasing cortical area.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	90-96
Number of pages	7
Journal	Biological Psychiatry
Volume	69
Issue number	1
Early online date	15 Oct 2010
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2010.07.035
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2011

Keywords

association study
B3GAT1
GlcAT-P
GlcAT-S
MRI
psychosis

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Kähler, A. K., Djurovic, S., Rimol, L. M., Brown, A. A., Athanasiu, L., Jönsson, E. G., Hansen, T., Gústafsson, Ó., Hall, H., Giegling, I., Muglia, P., Cichon, S., Rietschel, M., Pietiläinen, O. P. H., Peltonen, L., Bramon, E., Collier, D., St Clair, D., Sigurdsson, E., ... Andreassen, O. A. (2011). Candidate gene analysis of the human natural killer-1 carbohydrate pathway and perineuronal nets in schizophrenia: B3GAT2 is associated with disease risk and cortical surface area. Biological Psychiatry, 69(1), 90-96. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2010.07.035

Candidate gene analysis of the human natural killer-1 carbohydrate pathway and perineuronal nets in schizophrenia : B3GAT2 is associated with disease risk and cortical surface area. / Kähler, Anna K.; Djurovic, Srdjan; Rimol, Lars M. et al.

In: Biological Psychiatry, Vol. 69, No. 1, 01.01.2011, p. 90-96.

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Kähler, AK, Djurovic, S, Rimol, LM, Brown, AA, Athanasiu, L, Jönsson, EG, Hansen, T, Gústafsson, Ó, Hall, H, Giegling, I, Muglia, P, Cichon, S, Rietschel, M, Pietiläinen, OPH, Peltonen, L, Bramon, E, Collier, D, St Clair, D, Sigurdsson, E, Petursson, H, Rujescu, D, Melle, I, Werge, T, Steen, VM, Dale, AM, Matthews, RT, Agartz, I & Andreassen, OA 2011, 'Candidate gene analysis of the human natural killer-1 carbohydrate pathway and perineuronal nets in schizophrenia: B3GAT2 is associated with disease risk and cortical surface area', Biological Psychiatry, vol. 69, no. 1, pp. 90-96. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2010.07.035

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Candidate gene analysis of the human natural killer-1 carbohydrate pathway and perineuronal nets in schizophrenia: B3GAT2 is associated with disease risk and cortical surface area

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