Investigation of epistasis between the serotonin transporter and norepinephrine transporter genes in anorexia nervosa

Neuropsychopharmacology : Official Publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology
Ruth E UrwinKenneth P Nunn

Abstract

Weight-restored patients with anorexia nervosa (AN) respond favorably to the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor fluoxetine, which justifies association studies of the serotonin transporter gene (SLC6A4, alias SERT) and AN. Case-control studies suggest that the least transcriptionally active allele of the SERT gene promoter polymorphism (5-HTTLPR) has an increased frequency in AN patients. However, this finding was not replicated with 55 trios (AN child+parents) and the transmission disequilibrium test (TDT). To clarify the role of the 5-HTTLPR in susceptibility to AN, we used the TDT and 106 Australian trios to provide 93% power to detect a genotypic relative risk (GRR) of 2.0. Our results were negative for this GRR (McNemar's chi(2)=0.01, df=1, p=0.921, odds ratio 1.0, 95% CI 0.7-1.5). Additionally, we found no association with AN females, AN subtype, age at onset, or minimum BMI. We then performed the first reported investigation of epistasis between the SERT gene and norepinephrine transporter gene (SLC6A2, alias NET) in AN, as an earlier study suggested that atypical AN responds to the dual serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor venlafaxine. We observed no epistasis between the 5-HTTLPR and a polymorphism within th...Continue Reading

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