Dokument-ID Dokumenttyp Verfasser/Autoren Herausgeber Haupttitel Abstract Auflage Verlagsort Verlag Erscheinungsjahr Seitenzahl Schriftenreihe Titel Schriftenreihe Bandzahl ISBN Quelle der Hochschulschrift Konferenzname Quelle:Titel Quelle:Jahrgang Quelle:Heftnummer Quelle:Erste Seite Quelle:Letzte Seite URN DOI Abteilungen OPUS4-13689 Wissenschaftlicher Artikel Stepniak, Beata; Kästner, Anne; Poggi, Giulia; Mitjans, Marina; Begemann, Martin; Hartmann, Annette; Van der Auwera, Sandra; Sananbenesi, Farahnaz; Krüger-Burg, Dilja; Matuszko, Gabriela; Brosi, Cornelia; Homuth, Georg; Völzke, Henry; Benseler, Fritz; Bagni, Claudia; Fischer, Utz; Dityatev, Alexander; Grabe, Hans-Jörgen; Rujescu, Dan; Fischer, Andre; Ehrenreich, Hannelore Accumulated common variants in the broader fragile X gene family modulate autistic phenotypes Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is mostly caused by a CGG triplet expansion in the fragile X mental retardation 1 gene (FMR1). Up to 60% of affected males fulfill criteria for autism spectrum disorder (ASD), making FXS the most frequent monogenetic cause of syndromic ASD. It is unknown, however, whether normal variants (independent of mutations) in the fragile X gene family (FMR1, FXR1, FXR2) and in FMR2 modulate autistic features. Here, we report an accumulation model of 8 SNPs in these genes, associated with autistic traits in a discovery sample of male patients with schizophrenia (N = 692) and three independent replicate samples: patients with schizophrenia (N = 626), patients with other psychiatric diagnoses (N = 111) and a general population sample (N = 2005). For first mechanistic insight, we contrasted microRNA expression in peripheral blood mononuclear cells of selected extreme group subjects with high-versus low-risk constellation regarding the accumulation model. Thereby, the brain-expressed miR-181 species emerged as potential "umbrella regulator", with several seed matches across the fragile X gene family and FMR2. To conclude, normal variation in these genes contributes to the continuum of autistic phenotypes. 2015 1565-1579 EMBO Molecular Medicine 7 12 urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-136893 10.15252/emmm.201505696 Lehrstuhl für Biochemie