title: Aberrant DNA methylation associated with bipolar disorder identified from discordant monozygotic twins.
abstract: To search DNA methylation difference between monozygotic twins discordant for bipolar disorder, we applied a comprehensive genome scan method, methylation-sensitive representational difference analysis (MS-RDA) to lymphoblastoid cells derived from the twins. MS-RDA isolated 10 DNA fragments derived from 5' region of known genes/ESTs. Among these 10 regions, four regions showed DNA methylation differences between bipolar twin and control co-twin confirmed by bisulfite sequencing. We performed a case-control study of DNA methylation status of these four regions by pyrosequencing. Two regions, upstream regions of spermine synthase (SMS) and peptidylprolyl isomerase E-like (PPIEL) (CN265253), showed aberrant DNA methylation status in bipolar disorder. SMS, a gene on X chromosome, showed significantly higher DNA methylation level in female patients with bipolar disorder compared with control females. However, there was no difference of mRNA expression. In PPIEL, DNA methylation level was significantly lower in patients with bipolar II disorder than in controls. The expression level of PPIEL was significantly higher in bipolar II disorder than in controls. We found strong inverse correlation between gene expression and DNA methylation levels of PPIEL. These results suggest that altered DNA methylation statuses of PPIEL might have some significance in pathophysiology of bipolar disorder..
authors.affiliation: Laboratory for Molecular Dynamics of Mental Disorders, Brain Science Institute, RIKEN, Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama, Japan.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Kuratomi
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Iwamoto
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bundo
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kusumi
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kato
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Iwata
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ozaki
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kato
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D021983:Cyclophilins / Q000235:genetics*; D019175:DNA Methylation; D004200:Diseases in Twins; D004303:Dosage Compensation, Genetic; D005260:Female; D016678:Genome; D006801:Humans; D008214:Lymphocytes; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA / Q000379:methods; D013097:Spermine Synthase / Q000235:genetics*; D014430:Twins, Monozygotic
chemical_list: D013097:Spermine Synthase; D021983:Cyclophilins; C114522:PPIE protein, human