Epistatic Interactions between CREB and CREM Variants in Affective Disorder.
The aim of the present work is to investigate the existence of epistatic interactions possibly influencing psychotropic agents' response between rs6740584 within Cyclic adenosine monophosphate Response Element Binding (CREB) and rs12775799 within cAMP response element-modulator (CREM) variants in bipolar disorder (BD) and major depressive disorder (MDD). All BD and MDD patients were administered with the Young Mania Rating Scale (YMRS) and Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAMD) at baseline and at endpoint, respectively. A multiple regression model was employed to investigate the existence of possible epistatic interactions between the two variants and diverse clinical factors including drug response in affective disorders. No significant epistatic interaction was observed between rs6740584 within CREB and rs12775799 within CREM on both symptom improvement and other clinical factors in affective disorders. Our preliminary results suggest that no epistatic interaction between rs6740584 within CREB and rs12775799 within CREM should exist on clinical improvement and clinical factors in affective disorders.
Department of Biomedical and NeuroMotor Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy. ; Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Messina, Messina, Italy.
Alberto
A
Chiesa
Department of Biomedical and NeuroMotor Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Agnese
A
Marsano
Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Changsu
C
Han
Department of Psychiatry, Bucheon St. Mary's Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea College of Medicine, Bucheon, Republic of Korea.
Soo-Jung
SJ
Lee
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.
Ashwin A
AA
Patkar
Department of Psychiatry, Bucheon St. Mary's Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea College of Medicine, Bucheon, Republic of Korea. ; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.
Chi-Un
CU
Pae
Department of Biomedical and NeuroMotor Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Alessandro
A
Serretti
CREB; CREM; Epistasis; Response affective disorder