PMID- 25740197 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20151215 LR - 20220408 IS - 1552-485X (Electronic) IS - 1552-4841 (Linking) VI - 168B IP - 3 DP - 2015 Apr TI - RGS2 ggenetic variation: association analysis with panic disorder and dimensional as well as intermediate phenotypes of anxiety. PG - 211-22 LID - 10.1002/ajmg.b.32299 [doi] AB - Accumulating evidence from mouse models points to the G protein-coupled receptor RGS2 (regulator of G-protein signaling 2) as a promising candidate gene for anxiety in humans. Recently, RGS2 polymorphisms were found to be associated with various anxiety disorders, e.g., rs4606 with panic disorder (PD), but other findings have been negative or inconsistent concerning the respective risk allele. To further examine the role of RGS2 polymorphisms in the pathogenesis of PD, we genotyped rs4606 and five additional RGS2 tag single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs; rs16834831, rs10801153, rs16829458, rs1342809, rs1890397) in two independent PD samples, comprising 531 matched case/control pairs. The functional SNP rs4606 was nominally associated with PD when both samples were combined. The upstream SNP rs10801153 displayed a Bonferroni-resistant significant association with PD in the second and the combined sample (P = 0.006 and P = 0.017). We furthermore investigated the effect of rs10801153 on dimensional anxiety traits, a behavioral avoidance test (BAT), and an index for emotional processing in the respective subsets of the total sample. In line with categorical results, homozygous risk (G) allele carriers displayed higher scores on the Agoraphobic Cognitions Questionnaire (ACQ; P = 0.015) and showed significantly more defensive behavior during fear provoking situations (P = 0.001). Furthermore, significant effects on brain activation in response to angry (P = 0.013), happy (P = 0.042) and neutral faces (P = 0.032) were detected. Taken together, these findings provide further evidence for the potential role of RGS2 as a candidate gene for PD. CI - (c) 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. FAU - Hohoff, Christa AU - Hohoff C AD - Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany. FAU - Weber, Heike AU - Weber H FAU - Richter, Jan AU - Richter J FAU - Domschke, Katharina AU - Domschke K FAU - Zwanzger, Peter M AU - Zwanzger PM FAU - Ohrmann, Patricia AU - Ohrmann P FAU - Bauer, Jochen AU - Bauer J FAU - Suslow, Thomas AU - Suslow T FAU - Kugel, Harald AU - Kugel H FAU - Baumann, Christian AU - Baumann C FAU - Klauke, Benedikt AU - Klauke B FAU - Jacob, Christian P AU - Jacob CP FAU - Fritze, Jurgen AU - Fritze J FAU - Bandelow, Borwin AU - Bandelow B FAU - Gloster, Andrew T AU - Gloster AT FAU - Gerlach, Alexander L AU - Gerlach AL FAU - Kircher, Tilo AU - Kircher T FAU - Lang, Thomas AU - Lang T FAU - Alpers, Georg W AU - Alpers GW FAU - Strohle, Andreas AU - Strohle A FAU - Fehm, Lydia AU - Fehm L FAU - Wittchen, Hans-Ulrich AU - Wittchen HU FAU - Arolt, Volker AU - Arolt V FAU - Pauli, Paul AU - Pauli P FAU - Hamm, Alfons AU - Hamm A FAU - Reif, Andreas AU - Reif A FAU - Deckert, Jurgen AU - Deckert J LA - eng PT - Comparative Study PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20150304 PL - United States TA - Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet JT - American journal of medical genetics. Part B, Neuropsychiatric genetics : the official publication of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics JID - 101235742 RN - 0 (Biomarkers) RN - 0 (RGS Proteins) RN - 0 (RGS2 protein, human) SB - IM MH - Adult MH - Anxiety Disorders/*etiology/psychology MH - Biomarkers/*analysis MH - Brain Mapping MH - Case-Control Studies MH - Emotions/physiology MH - Female MH - Follow-Up Studies MH - *Genetic Predisposition to Disease MH - Genotype MH - Haplotypes MH - Humans MH - Image Processing, Computer-Assisted MH - Male MH - Panic Disorder/complications/*genetics/psychology MH - Personality MH - Phenotype MH - Pilot Projects MH - Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide/*genetics MH - Prognosis MH - Psychological Tests MH - RGS Proteins/*genetics OTO - NOTNLM OT - anxiety OT - fear OT - panic disorder OT - polymorphism OT - regulator of G-protein signaling 2 EDAT- 2015/03/06 06:00 MHDA- 2015/12/17 06:00 CRDT- 2015/03/06 06:00 PHST- 2014/05/30 00:00 [received] PHST- 2015/01/14 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2015/03/06 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2015/03/06 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2015/12/17 06:00 [medline] AID - 10.1002/ajmg.b.32299 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet. 2015 Apr;168B(3):211-22. doi: 10.1002/ajmg.b.32299. Epub 2015 Mar 4.