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Effect of TGF-β1 polymorphism on the susceptibility to schizophrenia and treatment response to atypical antipsychotic agent

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 June 2014

Hwa-Young Lee  and
Yong-Ku Kim
Hwa-Young Lee
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, Korea University, Korea
Yong-Ku Kim*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, Korea University, Korea Division of Brain Korea, 21 Biomedical Science, Korea University, Korea
*
Yong-Ku Kim, Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, Korea University Ansan Hospital, Ansan City, Gojan Dong, 516, Kyunggi Province 425-020, Korea. Tel: +82 31 412 5140; Fax: +82 31 412 5144; E-mail: yongku@korea.ac.kr
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Abstract

Lee H-Y, Kim Y-K. Effect of TGF-β1 polymorphism on the susceptibility to schizophrenia and treatment response to atypical antipsychotic agent.

Objective:

Several studies have suggested that cytokine alterations could be related to the pathophysiology of schizophrenia. Transforming growth factor-beta1 (TGF-β1) is believed to be an important factor in regulation of inflammatory responses and to have anti-inflammatory effects. TGF-β1 also has trophic effects on dopaminergic neurons. We tested the hypothesis TGF-β1 is associated with the pathophysiology of schizophrenia.

Methods:

The polymorphisms at codon 10 (T869C) and codon 25 (G915C) of TGF-β1 were analysed in 99 schizophrenia patients and 130 normal controls. At baseline and after 8 weeks of treatment, clinical symptoms were evaluated on Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS).

Results:

None of the subjects were polymorphic at codon 25. However, the C allele at codon 10 was more frequent in schizophrenia (p = 0.05). Although schizophrenia group showed a higher tendency of allele frequency in the subjects with C allele (p = 0.05), the allelic difference did not reach statistical significance after correction for multiple comparisons (p = 0.1).

PANSS scores showed no significant correlation with genotypes. The genotype distribution was not significantly different between responders and non-responders. However, the C allele was more frequent among responders (p = 0.03).

Conclusion:

These results suggest that the TGF-β1 polymorphism is associated with therapeutic response to antipsychotics. However, further studies with larger numbers of subjects are needed to confirm the effect of TGF-β1 in schizophrenia.

Keywords

antipsychoticpolymorphismschizophreniatransforming growth factor-beta1treatment response
Type
Research Article
Information
Acta Neuropsychiatrica , Volume 22 , Issue 4 , August 2010 , pp. 174 - 179
Copyright
Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons A/S

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