Abstract:
:For a period in the mid-1990s, soon after the discovery of the involvement of trinucleotide repeat expansions in fragile-X syndrome (both A and E), Huntington's disease, myotonic dystrophy, and a number of hereditary ataxias, there was a clear sense that this new disease mechanism might provide answers for psychiatric disorders. Given the then failures to replicate initial genetic linkage findings for schizophrenia (SCZ) and bipolar disorder (BD), a greater emphasis was placed on the role of complex and non-Mendelian mechanisms, and repeat instability appeared to have the potential to provide adequate explanations for numerous apparently non-Mendelian features such as anticipation, incomplete penetrance, sporadic occurrence, and nonconcordance of monozygotic twins. Initial molecular studies using a ligation-based amplification method (repeat expansion detection) appeared to support the involvement of CAG•CTG repeat expansion in SCZ and BD. However, subsequent studies that dissected the large repeats responsible for much of the positive signal showed that there were three main loci where CAG•CTG repeat expansion was occurring (on 13q21.33, 17q21.33-q22, and 18q21.2). None of the expansions at these loci appeared to segregate with SCZ or BD, and research into repeat expansions in psychiatric illness petered out in the early 2000s. The 13q expansion occurs within a noncoding RNA and appears to be associated with spinocerebellar ataxia 8 (SCA8), but with a still unexplained dichotomy in penetrance - either very high or very low. The 17q expansion occurs within an intron of the carbonic anhydrase-like gene, CA10. The 18q expansion is located within an intron of the TCF4 gene. Mutations in TCF4 are a known cause of Pitt-Hopkins syndrome. Also, pertinently, genome-wide association studies have shown a well-replicated association between TCF4 and SCZ. Two decades on, in 2016, it appears to be an appropriate juncture to reflect on what we have learned, and, with the arrival of newer technologies, whether there is any mileage to be made in revisiting the unstable DNA hypothesis for psychiatric illness.
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Psychiatr Genetjournal_title
Psychiatric geneticsauthors
Vincent JBdoi
10.1097/YPG.0000000000000141subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2016-08-01 00:00:00pages
156-65issue
4eissn
0955-8829issn
1473-5873journal_volume
26pub_type
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journal_title:Psychiatric genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00041444-199505030-00004
更新日期:1995-10-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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doi:10.1097/YPG.0000000000000162
更新日期:2017-04-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00041444-200409000-00007
更新日期:2004-09-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00041444-200309000-00007
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/YPG.0b013e32833a216f
更新日期:2010-06-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/YPG.0b013e32833a9b7a
更新日期:2010-12-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/YPG.0b013e328363f631
更新日期:2013-10-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00041444-200412000-00013
更新日期:2004-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Psychiatric genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/00041444-199700710-00009
更新日期:1997-04-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章,meta分析
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更新日期:2013-08-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/YPG.0b013e3283060f48
更新日期:2008-12-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/YPG.0b013e3283643671
更新日期:2013-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Psychiatric genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1997-01-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/YPG.0b013e32835fe3e1
更新日期:2013-06-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/YPG.0000000000000237
更新日期:2019-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Psychiatric genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章,meta分析
doi:10.1097/YPG.0b013e32801da2e2
更新日期:2007-06-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/YPG.0000000000000126
更新日期:2016-06-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/01.ypg.0000199449.07786.7d
更新日期:2006-06-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/YPG.0b013e32835d700d
更新日期:2013-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Psychiatric genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/YPG.0000000000000266
更新日期:2020-12-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/YPG.0b013e32832d0941
更新日期:2009-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Psychiatric genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00041444-200209000-00007
更新日期:2002-09-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00041444-200506000-00012
更新日期:2005-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Psychiatric genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/YPG.0b013e3282fb003d
更新日期:2008-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Psychiatric genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00041444-200112000-00004
更新日期:2001-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Psychiatric genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00041444-199808040-00004
更新日期:1998-01-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/01.ypg.0000242194.36150.2b
更新日期:2006-10-01 00:00:00