Linkage and Candidate Gene Studies of Autism Spectrum Disorders in European Populations
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
Linkage and Candidate Gene Studies of Autism Spectrum Disorders in European Populations Tony P Monaco, Richard Holt, Gabrielle Barnby, Elena Maestrini, Elena Bacchelli, Denise Brocklebank, Ines Sousa, Erik Mulder, Katri Kantojärvi, Irma Järvelä, et al. To cite this version: Tony P Monaco, Richard Holt, Gabrielle Barnby, Elena Maestrini, Elena Bacchelli, et al.. Linkage and Candidate Gene Studies of Autism Spectrum Disorders in European Populations. European Journal of Human Genetics, Nature Publishing Group, 2010, 10.1038/ejhg.2010.69. hal-00533038 HAL Id: hal-00533038 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00533038 Submitted on 5 Nov 2010 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. 1 Linkage and Candidate Gene Studies of Autism Spectrum Disorders in European 2 Populations 3 Running title: Linkage and association studies of autism 4 R Holt1, G Barnby1, E Maestrini2, E Bacchelli2, D Brocklebank1, I Sousa1, EJ Mulder3 K 5 Kantojärvi4, I Järvelä4, SM Klauck5, F Poustka6, AJ Bailey7, AP Monaco1 and the EU 6 Autism MOLGEN Consortium* 7 8 1 Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford, OX3 7BN, UK 9 2 Dipartimento di Biologia, Università di Bologna, Via Selmi 3, 40126 Bologna, Italy 10 3 University Medical Center Groningen Department of Psychiatry, Child and Adolescent 11 Psychiatry, Hanzeplein 1, entr.29, PO Box 660 9700 AR Groningen, The Netherlands 12 4 Department of Medical Genetics, University of 13 Helsinki, P.O. Box 63, 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland 14 5 Division of Molecular Genome Analysis, German Cancer Research Center, Im 15 Neuenheimer Feld 580, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany 16 6 Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, 17 Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Deutschordenstr. 50, 60528, Frankfurt/Main, 18 Germany 19 7 University Department of Psychiatry, Park Hospital for Children, Oxford, UK 20 21 The corresponding author is Professor Anthony Monaco and his contact details are: 22 Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics 23 Roosevelt Drive 1 24 Oxford OX3 7BN, UK 25 Email: [email protected] 26 Tel: 0044 (0)1865270004 27 Fax: 0044 (0)1865280411 28 29 *Members of the EU Autism MOLGEN Consortium in alphabetical order are: Reija 30 Alen1, Elena Bacchelli2, Anthony Bailey3, Gillian Baird4, Agatino Battaglia5, Catalina 31 Betancur6, Annelies de Bildt7, Francesca Blasi2, Sven Bölte8, Patrick Bolton9, Thomas 32 Bourgeron10, Karen Brøndum-Nielsen11, Simona Carone2, Pauline Chaste10, Andreas 33 Chiocchetti12, Eftichia Duketis13, Christelle Durand10, Herman van Engeland14, Penny 34 Farrar15, Sabine Feineis-Matthews13, Bärbel Felder12, Kostas Francis3, Jeanne 35 Fremolle16, Carina Gillberg17, Christopher Gillberg17, Hany Goubran-Botros10, 36 Demetrious Haracopos11, Evelyn Herbrecht13, Richard Holt15, Gemma Honeyman3, 37 Jasmin Honold13, Renske Houben14, Aislinn Hutchison3, Roberta Igliozzi5, Torben 38 Isager11, Irma Järvelä1, Maria Johansson17, Maretha de Jonge14, Sabine M. Klauck12, 39 Anne Koivisto1, Hanna Komu1, Marion Leboyer18, Ann Le Couteur19, Justin Lowen3, 40 Elena Maestrini2, Carine Mantoulan16, Jonas Melke10, Helen McConachie19, Ruud 41 Minderaa7, Anthony Monaco15, Erik Mulder7, Taina Nieminen-von Wendt1, Ilona 42 Nummela1, Gudrun Nygren17, Geeta Pakalapati12, Katerina Papanikolaou20, Barbara 43 Parrini5, Lennart Pederson11, Liz Pellicano3, Catherine Pienkowski16, Judith Ponsford3, 44 Annemarie Poustka12, Fritz Poustka13, Maria Rastam17, Karola Rehnström1, Katy 45 Renshaw3, Bernadette Rogé16, Dorothea Ruehl13, Michael Rutter4, Susan Sarenius1, 46 Gabriele Schmötzer13, Claudia Schuster12, Henrik Anckarsater17, Raffaella Tancredi5, 2 47 Maïté Tauber16, John Tsiantis20, Nora Uhlig13, Raija Vanhala1, Simon Wallace3, Lennart 48 von Wendt1, Kerstin Wittemeyer3, Tero Ylisaukko-oja1. 49 1 Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland. 50 2 University of Bologna, Alma Mater Studorium, Bologna, Italy. 51 3 University of Oxford, Department of Psychiatry, Oxford, UK. 52 4 Kings College London, Newcomen Centre, London, UK. 53 5 Stella Maris Clinical Research Institute for Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry, 54 Pisa, Italy. 55 6 INSERM U952, CNRS UMR7224, UPMC Univ Paris 06, Paris, France. 56 7 Stichting Universitaire en Algemene Kinder – en Jeugdpsychiatrie Noord – Nederland 57 (Accare) / University Medical Center Groningen, University Center Child and Adolescent 58 Psychiatry Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands. 59 8 Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Central Institute of Mental Health, 60 Mannheim, Germany. 61 9 Kings College London, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, London, UK. 62 10 Institut Pasteur, Paris, France. 63 11 Center for Autisme, Herlev, Denmark. 64 12 German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Division of Molecular Genome Analysis, 65 Heidelberg, Germany. 66 13 Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, 67 Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Deutschordenstr. 50, 60528, Frankfurt/Main, 68 Germany. 3 69 14 University Medical Centre Utrecht, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 70 Utrecht, Netherlands. 71 15 University of Oxford, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford, UK. 72 16 Universite de Toulouse le Mirail. Toulouse, France. 73 17 Goteborg University, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Goteborg, 74 Sweden. 75 18 INSERM U955; AP-HP, Henri Mondor-Albert Chenevier Hospital, Department of 76 Psychiatry; Université Paris 12, Faculty of Medicine, Créteil, France. 77 19 University of Newcastle, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Sir James 78 Spence Institute, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle, UK. 79 20 National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Medical School, Department of Child 80 Psychiatry, Athens, Greece. 81 82 Keywords Autistic disorder, linkage, association, candidate gene 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 4 92 Abstract 93 Over the past decade, research on the genetic variants underlying susceptibility to autism 94 and autism spectrum disorders has focused on linkage and candidate gene studies. This 95 research has implicated a variety of chromosomal loci and genes. Candidate gene studies 96 have proved particularly intractable, with many studies failing to replicate previously 97 reported associations. Here we investigate previously implicated genomic regions for a 98 role in autism spectrum disorder susceptibility, using four cohorts of European ancestry. 99 Initially, a 384 SNP Illumina GoldenGate® array was used to examine linkage at six 100 previously implicated loci. We identify linkage approaching genome-wide suggestive 101 levels on chromosome 2 (rs2885116, MLOD = 1.89). Association analysis revealed 102 significant associations in MKL2 with ASD (rs756472, P = 4.31 x 10-5) and between 103 SND1 and strict autism (rs1881084, P = 7.76 x 10-5) in the Finnish and Northern Dutch 104 populations, respectively. Subsequently, we used a second 384 SNP Illumina 105 GoldenGate® array to examine association in seven candidate genes and evidence for 106 association was found in RELN (rs362780, P = 0.00165). Further increasing the sample 107 size strengthened the association to RELN (rs362780, P = 0.001) and produced a second 108 significant result in GRIK2 (rs2518261, P = 0.008). Our results strengthen the case for a 109 more detailed study of the role of RELN and GRIK2 in autism susceptibility as well as 110 identifying two new potential candidate genes; MKL2 and SND1. 111 112 113 114 5 115 Introduction 116 Autism, a neuropsychiatric disorder with an onset before three years of age, is 117 characterised by impaired reciprocal communication and social interaction and restricted 118 and stereotyped patterns of interests and behaviour. The definition can be further 119 broadened to include atypical autism, Asperger syndrome and pervasive developmental 120 disorder not otherwise specified (PDD-NOS), to create a class of conditions collectively 121 referred to as Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs) (OMIM %209850). 122 ASDs affect approximately 0.6 – 1.2% of the general population (1, 2), with a 123 marked excess of boys to girls of around 4:1 (3, 4). Multiple lines of evidence have shown 124 that autism has a large genetic component. The prevalence of ASDs is increased to 2-8% 125 amongst the siblings of affected individuals (4, 5), and the concordance rates increase from 126 0% in same-sex dizygotic twins to 36-60% in monozygotic pairs (6, 7). Thus the 127 heritability of autism is approximately 90%, making it the most heritable of the childhood 128 onset neuropsychiatric disorders (7). 129 Despite the obvious importance of genetic factors in autism development, the 130 search for the genes underlying susceptibility has met with limited success. A large 131 number of linkage studies have been performed and have identified possible 132 susceptibility loci on multiple chromosomes (8). While there is not total concordance 133 between the different studies, certain regions, such as those on chromosomes 2, 3, 7, 11, 134 16, 17 and 19, have been implicated