The association between DRD2/ANKK1 and genetically informed measures of alcohol use and problems.
- Authors
- Meyers, Jacquelyn L; Nyman, Emma; Loukola, Anu; Rose, Richard J; Kaprio, Jaakko; Dick, Danielle M
- Year
- 2013
- Journal
- Addiction biology
- PMID
- 22970887
- DOI
- 10.1111/j.1369-1600.2012.00490.x
- PMCID
- PMC3522787
In 1990, Blum and colleagues first reported an association between DRD2 and alcoholism. While there have been subsequent replications of this genetic association, there have also been numerous studies that failed to detect an association between DRD2 and alcohol dependence. We propose that one aspect contributing to this inconsistency is the variation in alcohol phenotype used across studies. Within the population-based Finnish twin sample, FinnTwin16, we previously performed multivariate twin analyses to extract latent genetic factors, which account for the variation across seven measures of alcohol consumption (frequency of drinking, frequency × quantity, frequency of heavy drinking, frequency of intoxication and maximum drinks in a 24-hour period) and problems (the Rutgers Alcohol Problem Index-RAPI and the Mälmö-modified Michigan Alcohol Screen Test-MmMAST) in 3065 twins. In the present study, we examined the association between 31 DRD2/ANKK1 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and the genetic factor scores generated by twin analyses in a subset of FinnTwin16 (n = 602). We focus on two of the genetic factors: a general alcohol consumption and problems factor score, which represents shared genetic variance across alcohol measures, and a alcohol problems genetic factor score, which loads onto the two indices of problematic drinking (MAST and RAPI). After correction for multiple testing across SNPs and phenotypes, of the 31 SNPs genotyped across DRD2/ANKK1, one SNP (rs10891549) showed significant association with the general alcohol consumption and problems factor score (P = 0.004), and four SNPs (rs10891549, rs1554929, rs6275, rs6279), representing two independent signals after accounting for linkage disequilibrium, showed significant association with the alcohol problems genetic factor score (P = 0.005, P = 0.005, P = 0.003, P = 0.003). In this study, we provide additional positive evidence for the association between DRD2/ANKK1 and alcohol outcomes, including frequency of drinking and drinking problems. Additionally, post hoc analyses indicate stronger association signals using genetic factor scores than individual measures, which suggest that accounting for the genetic architecture of the alcohol measures reduces genetic heterogeneity in alcohol dependence outcomes in this sample and enhances the ability to detect association.
Best Fitting Model of the Genetic Architecture of Measures of Alcohol Consumption and Problems in the Full Finntwin16 Sample (previously published in Dick et al. 2011)
LD structure of DRD2/ANKK1Legend: Location of (A) and correlations between (B and C) the single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) genotyped in the DRD2/ANKK1 gene complex (B) in the CEPH (Centre d’Etude du Polymorphisme Humain) data obtained from the HapMap database (The International HapMap Consortium, 2003) and (C) in the Finntwin16 data, Shading indicates the degree of correlation as measured by D′ (Hedrick & Kumar, 2001); darker shading indicates higher correlations, and white shading indicates that markers are unlinked or uncorrelated. The numbers inside the diamonds are R2 values, another measure of correlation between SNPs. The black triangles grouping subsets of SNPs indicate blocks of SNPs that are highly correlated (as defined by criteria detailed in Gabriel et al., 2002). Not all SNPs genotyped in the Finntwin16 sample were available in the HapMap database; in these cases, proxy SNPs that were the SNPs most highly correlated with the genotyped SNPs are listed. In the Finntwin16 sample, the LD blocks were similar to those in the HapMap CEPH data, and the somewhat stronger LD between markers is in agreement with previous findings from the Finnish population (Service et al., 2006).
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