PUBLICATION
De novo mutations in the gene encoding the synaptic scaffolding protein SHANK3 in patients ascertained for schizophrenia
- Authors
- Gauthier, J., Champagne, N., Lafrenière, R.G., Xiong, L., Spiegelman, D., Brustein, E., Lapointe, M., Peng, H., Côté, M., Noreau, A., Hamdan, F.F., Addington, A.M., Rapoport, J.L., Delisi, L.E., Krebs, M.O., Joober, R., Fathalli, F., Mouaffak, F., Haghighi, A.P., Néri, C., Dubé, M.P., Samuels, M.E., Marineau, C., Stone, E.A., Awadalla, P., Barker, P.A., Carbonetto, S., Drapeau, P., Rouleau, G.A. and the S2D Team.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-100420-23
- Date
- 2010
- Source
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 107(17): 7863-7868 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Brustein, Edna, Drapeau, Pierre, Stone, Eric
- Keywords
- none
- MeSH Terms
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- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Carrier Proteins/genetics*
- Computational Biology
- DNA Primers/genetics
- Female
- Humans
- Male
- Microsatellite Repeats/genetics
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation, Missense/genetics*
- Nerve Tissue Proteins/genetics*
- Neurons/cytology*
- Pedigree
- Rats
- Schizophrenia/genetics*
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Zebrafish
- PubMed
- 20385823 Full text @ Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA
Citation
Gauthier, J., Champagne, N., Lafrenière, R.G., Xiong, L., Spiegelman, D., Brustein, E., Lapointe, M., Peng, H., Côté, M., Noreau, A., Hamdan, F.F., Addington, A.M., Rapoport, J.L., Delisi, L.E., Krebs, M.O., Joober, R., Fathalli, F., Mouaffak, F., Haghighi, A.P., Néri, C., Dubé, M.P., Samuels, M.E., Marineau, C., Stone, E.A., Awadalla, P., Barker, P.A., Carbonetto, S., Drapeau, P., Rouleau, G.A. and the S2D Team. (2010) De novo mutations in the gene encoding the synaptic scaffolding protein SHANK3 in patients ascertained for schizophrenia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 107(17):7863-7868.
Abstract
Schizophrenia likely results from poorly understood genetic and environmental factors. We studied the gene encoding the synaptic protein SHANK3 in 285 controls and 185 schizophrenia patients with unaffected parents. Two de novo mutations (R1117X and R536W) were identified in two families, one being found in three affected brothers, suggesting germline mosaicism. Zebrafish and rat hippocampal neuron assays revealed behavior and differentiation defects resulting from the R1117X mutant. As mutations in SHANK3 were previously reported in autism, the occurrence of SHANK3 mutations in subjects with a schizophrenia phenotype suggests a molecular genetic link between these two neurodevelopmental disorders.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping