Mariko Sekiguchi, Akira Sobue, Itaru Kushima, Chenyao Wang, Yuko Arioka, Hidekazu Kato, Akiko Kodama, Hisako Kubo, Norimichi Ito, Masahito Sawahata, Kazuhiro Hada, Ryosuke Ikeda, Mio Shinno, Chikara Mizukoshi, Keita Tsujimura, Akira Yoshimi, Kanako Ishizuka, Yuto Takasaki, Hiroki Kimura, Jingrui Xing, Yanjie Yu, Maeri Yamamoto, Takashi Okada, Emiko Shishido, Toshiya Inada, Masahiro Nakatochi, Tetsuya Takano, Keisuke Kuroda, Mutsuki Amano, Branko Aleksic, Takashi Yamomoto, Tetsushi Sakuma, Tomomi Aida, Kohichi Tanaka, Ryota Hashimoto, Makoto Arai, Masashi Ikeda, Nakao Iwata, Teppei Shimamura, Taku Nagai, Toshitaka Nabeshima, Kozo Kaibuchi, Kiyofumi Yamada, Daisuke Mori, Norio Ozaki
Schizophrenia (SCZ) is known to be a heritable disorder; however, its multifactorial nature has significantly hampered attempts to establish its pathogenesis. Therefore, in this study, we performed genome-wide copy-number variation (CNV) analysis of 2940 patients with SCZ and 2402 control subjects and identified a statistically significant association between SCZ and exonic CNVs in the ARHGAP10 gene. ARHGAP10 encodes a member of the RhoGAP superfamily of proteins that is involved in small GTPase signaling. This signaling pathway is one of the SCZ-associated pathways and may contribute to neural development and function...
July 22, 2020: Translational Psychiatry