Association analysis of GRM2 and HTR2A with methamphetamine-induced psychosis and schizophrenia in the Japanese population.
BACKGROUND
Abnormalities in glutaminergic neural transmission have been suggested to be involved in the pathogenesis of schizophrenia. A recent study reported that alterations in the 5-HT2A-mGluR2 complex may be involved in neural transmission in the schizophrenic cortex. In addition, methamphetamine-induced psychosis is thought to be similar to schizophrenia. Therefore, we conducted a case-control study with Japanese samples (738 schizophrenia patients, 196 methamphetamine-induced psychosis patients, and 802 controls) to evaluate the association and interaction between GRM2, HTR2A and schizophrenia.


METHODS
We selected three 'tagging SNPs' in GRM2, and two biologically functional SNPs in HTR2A (T102C and A1438G), for the association analysis.


RESULTS
We detected a significant association between methamphetamine-induced psychosis and GRM2 in a haplotype-wise analysis, but not HTR2A. We did not detect an association between GRM2 or HTR2A and schizophrenia. In addition, no interactions of GRM2 and HTR2A were found in methamphetamine-induced psychosis or schizophrenia. We did not detect any novel polymorphisms in GRM2 when we performed a mutation search using methamphetamine-induced psychosis samples.


CONCLUSIONS
Our results suggested that GRM2 may play a role in the pathophysiology of methamphetamine-induced psychosis but not schizophrenia in the Japanese population. A replication study using larger samples or samples of other populations will be required for conclusive results.
Tsunoka
Tomoko
T
Department of Psychiatry, Fujita Health University School of Medicine, Toyoake, Aichi 470-1192, Japan.
Kishi
Taro
T
Kitajima
Tsuyoshi
T
Okochi
Tomo
T
Okumura
Takenori
T
Yamanouchi
Yoshio
Y
Kinoshita
Yoko
Y
Kawashima
Kunihiro
K
Naitoh
Hiroshi
H
Inada
Toshiya
T
Ujike
Hiroshi
H
Yamada
Mitsuhiko
M
Uchimura
Naohisa
N
Sora
Ichiro
I
Iyo
Masaomi
M
Ozaki
Norio
N
Iwata
Nakao
N
D019969:Amphetamine-Related Disorders / Q000235:genetics; D044466:Asian People / Q000235:genetics; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D005787:Gene Frequency; D056726:Genetic Association Studies; D020022:Genetic Predisposition to Disease; D005838:Genotype; D006239:Haplotypes; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D008694:Methamphetamine / Q000009:adverse effects*; D009154:Mutation; D020641:Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; D011605:Psychoses, Substance-Induced / Q000235:genetics*; D044402:Receptor, Serotonin, 5-HT2A / Q000235:genetics*; D018094:Receptors, Metabotropic Glutamate / Q000235:genetics*; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000235:genetics*
D044402:Receptor, Serotonin, 5-HT2A; D018094:Receptors, Metabotropic Glutamate; D008694:Methamphetamine