Disruption of a brain transcription factor, NPAS3, is associated with schizophrenia and learning disability

Pickard, Ben S. and Malloy, M.P. and Porteous, D.J. and Blackwood, D.H.R. and Muir, W.J. (2005) Disruption of a brain transcription factor, NPAS3, is associated with schizophrenia and learning disability. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, 136B (1). pp. 26-32. ISSN 1552-485X (https://doi.org/10.1002/ajmg.b.30204)

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Abstract

A mother and daughter diagnosed with schizophrenia and schizophrenia co-morbid with mild learning disability, respectively, possess a balanced reciprocal translocation t(9,14)(q34.2;q13). Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) with YAC, BAC, and cosmid probes indicate that the chromosome 14q13 breakpoint disrupts a large gene, NPAS3, encoding a CNS expressed transcription factor of the basic helix-loop-helix PAS (bHLH-PAS) gene family. By analogy with other members of the bHLH-PAS family, the putative truncated protein generated from the disrupted gene locus may have a dominant negative effect. The 14q13 region was previously identified by a linkage study of an inherited neurodegenerative condition, idiopathic basal ganglia calcification (IBGC or Fahr syndrome, OMIM:213600/606656), which is often co-morbid with psychosis. Sequencing of the gene in a third patient diagnosed with IBGC, schizophrenia, and mild learning disability did not reveal functional mutations.

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