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A gene expression test for depression
Author
Ishii, Kazuo Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Keywords
depressive disorder
biomarker
gene expression
schizophrenia
bipolar disorder
Content Type
Journal Article
Description
Purpose: Recently, we could distinguished patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) from nonpsychiatric controls with high accuracy using a panel of five gene expression markers (ARHGAP24, HDAC5, PDGFC, PRNP, and SLC6A4) in leukocyte. In the present study, we examined whether this biological test is able to discriminate patients with MDD from those without MDD, including those with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
Patients and methods: We measured messenger ribonucleic acid expression levels of the aforementioned five genes in peripheral leukocytes in 17 patients with schizophrenia and 36 patients with bipolar disorder using quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR), and we combined these expression data with our previous expression data of 25 patients with MDD and 25 controls. Subsequently, a linear discriminant function was developed for use in discriminating between patients with MDD and without MDD.
Results: This expression panel was able to segregate patients with MDD from those without MDD with a sensitivity and specificity of 64% and 67.9%, respectively.
Conclusion: Further research to identify MDD-specific markers is needed to improve the performance of this biological test.
Journal Title
Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment
ISSN
11782021
Publisher
Dove Medical Press
Volume
13
Start Page
535
End Page
541
Published Date
2017-02-21
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