An association study on interaction of single nucleotide polymorphism of tryptophan hydroxylase 2 with negative life events on major depressive disorder / 中华行为医学与脑科学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To verify the interaction between single nucleotide polymorphism of trypto-phan hydroxylase 2 (TPH2) (rs4570625,rs11178997,rs120074175) and negative life events and the asso-ciation with major depressive disorder (MDD) in a Chinese population.Methods Totally 300 cases of pa-tients with major depressive disorder and 300 healthy controls in northern China were enrolled and the ge-nomic DNA were extracted. PCR was used to detect the polymorphisms of rs4570625, rs11178997, rs120074175.Questionnaire survey was conducted on the case group and the control group.Chi-square test was used to compare the differences in the frequency distribution of alleles and genotype between two groups. The generalized multifactor dimensionality reduction ( GMDR) method was used to analyze the interaction between gene and environment.Binary logistic regression was used to verify the optimal model.Results After adjusting the factors of sex and age,the GMDR analysis showed rs4570625,rs11178997,rs120074175 and negative life events were the optimal model.In this model, the testing balanced accuracy was 0.7838 and cross-validation consistency value was 10/10.There was statistically significant effect on the risk of major de-pressive disorder ( P ＝ 0.001 ). Binary logistic regression analysis showed that individuals, who had rs11178997 A+ genotype (AA,AT),rs120074175 A+genotype (AA,AG) and negative life events,had sig-nificant OR values of 24.307(95%CI＝13.007-45.427) and 38.2502(95%CI＝1.148-69.181),showing a higher risk of depression.Conclusion The interaction between TPH2 gene (rs11178997,rs120074175) and negative life events plays an important role in depression.