MB-COMT promoter DNA methylation is associated with working-memory processing in schizophrenia patients and healthy controls

Epigenetics

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1101-1107

  Walton, Esther ^a   Liu, Jingyu ^b   Hass, Johanna ^a   White, Tonya ^c   Scholz, Markus ^d   Roessner, Veit ^a   Gollub, Randy ^e,f   Calhoun, Vince D ^b,g   Ehrlich, Stefan ^a,e,f  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Lovelace Biomedical and Environmental Research Institute   (United States)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^e MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^g University of New Mexico   (United States)

Author keywords

COMT; DNA methylation; fMRI; Intermediate phenotype; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

CATECHOL METHYLTRANSFERASE; COMT PROTEIN, HUMAN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 22; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; DSM-IV; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; HYBRIDIZATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; PHENOTYPE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROMOTER REGION; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIFORM DISORDER; SOCIAL STATUS; STRUCTURED CLINICAL INTERVIEW FOR DSM DISORDERS; WIDE RANGE ACHIEVEMENT TEST; WORKING MEMORY; X CHROMOSOME; ADOLESCENT; CASE CONTROL STUDY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PSYCHOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CATECHOL O-METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84905649699     PISSN: 15592294     EISSN: 15592308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/epi.29223     Document Type: Article

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