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Nature Research, Nature Genetics, 1(44), p. 78-84

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Genome-wide copy number variation study associates metabotropic glutamate receptor gene networks with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

Journal article published in 2011 by Josephine Elia, Joseph T. Glessner, Kai Wang, Nagahide Takahashi, Corina J. Shtir, Dexter Hadley, Patrick M. A. Sleiman, Haitao Zhang, Cecilia E. Kim, Reid Robison, Gholson J. Lyon, James H. Flory, Jonathan P. Bradfield, Marcin Imielinski, Cuiping Hou and other authors.
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Abstract

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a common, heritable neuropsychiatric disorder of unknown etiology. We performed a whole-genome copy number variation (CNV) study on 1,013 cases with ADHD and 4,105 healthy children of European ancestry using 550,000 SNPs. We evaluated statistically significant findings in multiple independent cohorts, with a total of 2,493 cases with ADHD and 9,222 controls of European ancestry, using matched platforms. CNVs affecting metabotropic glutamate receptor genes were enriched across all cohorts (P = 2.1 x 10(-9)). We saw GRM5 (encoding glutamate receptor, metabotropic 5) deletions in ten cases and one control (P = 1.36 x 10(-6)). We saw GRM7 deletions in six cases, and we saw GRM8 deletions in eight cases and no controls. GRM1 was duplicated in eight cases. We experimentally validated the observed variants using quantitative RT-PCR. A gene network analysis showed that genes interacting with the genes in the GRM family are enriched for CNVs in similar to 10% of the cases (P = 4.38 x 10(-10)) after correction for occurrence in the controls. We identified rare recurrent CNVs affecting glutamatergic neurotransmission genes that were overrepresented in multiple ADHD cohorts.