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COMT Val158Met Polymorphism in Relation to Activation and De-activation in the Prefrontal Cortex: A Study in Patients with Schizophrenia and Healthy Subjects

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Journal Neuroimage
Specialty Radiology
Date 2010 Apr 20
PMID 20398774
Citations 12
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The Val158Met polymorphism in the COMT gene has been found to be associated with differences in brain activation in both healthy subjects and patients with schizophrenia. The predominant finding has been increased prefrontal activation associated with the Val allele; however, genotype-related de-activations have not been studied. In this study 42 schizophrenia patients and 31 controls underwent fMRI while performing the n-back task. Brain differences related to presence/absence of disease and presence/absence of the Val/Val genotype were examined. Both disease and Val/Val genotype were associated with failure of de-activation in a cluster centred in the medial prefrontal cortex. There was no interaction between disease and genotype at this location, but clusters where there were significant interactions emerged in the right prefrontal cortex and left temporal/parietal cortex. These findings suggest that Val158Met polymorphism influences task-related de-activations in the default mode network in both healthy subjects and schizophrenia patients to an equivalent extent. However the Val158Met polymorphism also has disease-specific effects on DLPFC activation in schizophrenia.

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