GABRG1 and GABRA2 variation associated with alcohol dependence in African Americans.
- Authors
- Ittiwut, Chupong; Yang, Bao-Zhu; Kranzler, Henry R; Anton, Raymond F; Hirunsatit, Rungnapa; Weiss, Roger D; Covault, Jonathan; Farrer, Lindsay A; Gelernter, Joel
- Year
- 2012
- Journal
- Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research
- PMID
- 21919924
- DOI
- 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2011.01637.x
- PMCID
- PMC3250564
BACKGROUND: GABRG1 and GABRA2, genes that encode the γ1 and α2 subunits, respectively, of the GABA-A receptor, are located in a cluster on chromosome 4p. Association of alcohol dependence (AD) with markers located at the 3' region of GABRA2 has been replicated in several studies, but recent studies suggested the possibility that the signal may be attributable to the adjacent gene, GABRG1, located 90 kb distant in the 3' direction. Owing to strong linkage disequilibrium (LD) in European Americans (EAs), the origin, or origins, of the association signal is very difficult to discern, but our previous population-based study suggested that decreased LD across the GABRG1-GABRA2 region in African Americans (AAs) may be useful for fine mapping and resolution of the association signal in that population. METHODS: To examine these associations in greater detail, we genotyped 13 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) spanning GABRG1 and GABRA2 in 380 AAs with AD and in 253 AA controls. RESULTS: Although there was no association between any individual SNP and AD, a highly significant difference was shown between AD subjects and controls in the frequency of a 3-SNP GABRA2 haplotype (global p = 0.00029). A similar level of significance was obtained in 6-SNP haplotypes that combined tagging SNPs from both genes (global p = 0.00994). High statistical significance was also shown with a 6-SNP haplotype (T-G-C-G-T-A), p = 0.0033. The T-G-C-G-T-A haplotype contains the most significant GABRA2 3-SNP haplotype (p = 0.00019), G-T-A. CONCLUSIONS: These findings reflect the interrelationship between these 2 genes and the likelihood that risk loci exist in each of them. Study of an AA population allowed evaluation of these associations at higher genomic resolution than is possible in a EA population, owing to the much lower LD across these loci in AAs.
LD structure and location of 6 htSNPs over the GABRG1/GABRA2 region on chromosome 4p13-12 in African Americans (controls, AD subjects, and combined sample). Map shows placement of the present SNPs with respect to the larger set in our earlier report (Ittiwut et al 2008)
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