Expanded CAG/CTG repeats in schizophrenia. A study of clinical correlates

Cardno, A. G., Murphy, K. C., Jones, L. A., Guy, C. A., Asherson, P., De Azevedo, M. H., Coelho, I. M., de Macedo e Santos, A. J., Pato, C. N., McGuffin, P., Owen, Michael John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4798-0862 and O'Donovan, Michael Conlon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7073-2379 1996. Expanded CAG/CTG repeats in schizophrenia. A study of clinical correlates. British Journal of Psychiatry 169 (6) , pp. 766-771. 10.1192/bjp.169.6.766

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Schizophrenia is associated with expanded CAG/CTG trinucleotide repeats. We wished to determine whether the presence of such expansions correlated with specific subsyndromes or other clinical features of schizophrenia. METHOD: Seventy patients from England and Wales and 44 patients from Portugal with a DSM-III-R diagnosis of schizophrenia were rated on the OPCRIT checklist. Patient's maximum CAG/CTG repeat length was measured using repeat expansion detection (RED). Significant differences were sought for repeat lengths in subjects categorised according to dimensional and categorical schizophrenia subsyndromes, affective episodes, individual symptoms, and a range of demographic variables. RESULTS: Maximum CAG/CTG repeat length did not differ significantly for any of the clinical or demographic variables studied. CONCLUSION: There are no subsyndromes or other clinical features of schizophrenia associated with CAG/CTG repeat expansion. Therefore, the identification of the gene(s) that contain expanded CAG/CTG repeats and which are associated with schizophrenia is unlikely to be facilitated at present by using any subsyndromes of schizophrenia as phenotypes.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics (CNGG) Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Institute (NMHRI)
Subjects:	R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
Publisher:	Royal College of Psychiatrists
ISSN:	0007-1250
Last Modified:	31 Oct 2022 09:40
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/81979

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