Hidekazu Kato, Itaru Kushima, Daisuke Mori, Akira Yoshimi, Branko Aleksic, Yoshihiro Nawa, Miho Toyama, Sho Furuta, Yanjie Yu, Kanako Ishizuka, Hiroki Kimura, Yuko Arioka, Keita Tsujimura, Mako Morikawa, Takashi Okada, Toshiya Inada, Masahiro Nakatochi, Keiko Shinjo, Yutaka Kondo, Kozo Kaibuchi, Yasuko Funabiki, Ryo Kimura, Toshimitsu Suzuki, Kazuhiro Yamakawa, Masashi Ikeda, Nakao Iwata, Tsutomu Takahashi, Michio Suzuki, Yuko Okahisa, Manabu Takaki, Jun Egawa, Toshiyuki Someya, Norio Ozaki
Dysregulation of epigenetic processes involving histone methylation induces neurodevelopmental impairments and has been implicated in schizophrenia (SCZ) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Variants in the gene encoding lysine demethylase 4C (KDM4C) have been suggested to confer a risk for such disorders. However, rare genetic variants in KDM4C have not been fully evaluated, and the functional impact of the variants has not been studied using patient-derived cells. In this study, we conducted copy number variant (CNV) analysis in a Japanese sample set (2605 SCZ and 1141 ASD cases, and 2310 controls)...
December 5, 2020: Translational Psychiatry