Molecular Genetics of Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia Clinical Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00006418
• Other study ID #: R01MH059571
• Secondary ID: R01MH059571R01MH
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: October 25, 2000
• Last updated: April 1, 2014
• Start date: September 2003
• Est. completion date: August 2007

Study information

• Verified date: November 2005
• Source: NorthShore University HealthSystem
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: United States: Federal Government
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

This study will create a DNA collection with blood samples from families with at least two siblings who have schizophrenia symptoms. This collection will help scientists identify genes that predispose people to schizophrenia.

Description:

Each site will recruit individuals in a large geographic area, and use efficient ascertainment strategies and assessment procedures in order to maximize the number collected. Subjects thought to have schizophrenia will be assessed by personal and family interviews and a review of medical records. Diagnoses will be made by consensus best-estimate procedures. Blood specimens will be obtained from all individuals with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder plus their available parents and also the control individuals. A clinical self-assessment will be administered to each control subject. The assessment will include validated self-assessments of lifetime major depression, anxiety disorders, and substance use, and self-reported history of bipolar or psychotic symptoms. Permanent cell lines will be created and DNA extracted at the NIMH-sponsored Center for Genetic Studies. At the end of the four-year project period, biological materials and blinded pedigree and clinical data will be made available to the scientific community for genetic studies of schizophrenia and related disorders. The control sample will, however, be released in a staggered fashion, twice during each fiscal year, to start during the 2nd year of recruitment. The informed consent for controls includes consent for specimens to be used in research on the genetics of any medical disorder. In years 3 and 4, we will undertake association analyses. Power analyses suggest that this study will have excellent power to detect loci associated with genes with relatively small etiologic effects. Data derived from this study will potentially have applications for the treatment and prevention of schizophrenia.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 10800
• Est. completion date: August 2007
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Individuals thought to have schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder, be the parent of such an individual, or be in the matched control group of unrelated individuals not thought to have schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder

Exclusion Criteria:

• Unable to give informed consent to all aspects of the study

• Psychotic disorder judged to be secondary to substance use, psychotic disorder that appears to be secondary to a known medical or neurological disorder, or severe mental retardation

Study Design

N/A

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Schizophrenia

Intervention

Procedure:
• DNA collection

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Australia	University of Queensland	Brisbane	Queensland
United States	Emory University	Atlanta	Georgia
United States	University of Colorado Health Sciences Center	Denver	Colorado
United States	Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Research Institute	Evanston	Illinois
United States	University of Iowa College of Medicine	Iowa City	Iowa
United States	University of California, Irvine	Irvine	California
United States	Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center	New Orleans	Louisiana
United States	Mount Sinai School of Medicine	New York	New York
United States	University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
United States	Washington University School of Medicine	St. Louis	Missouri

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
NorthShore University HealthSystem	National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

Countries where clinical trial is conducted

United States,  Australia, 

References & Publications (8)

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Gejman PV, Sanders AR, Duan J. The role of genetics in the etiology of schizophrenia. Psychiatr Clin North Am. 2010 Mar;33(1):35-66. doi: 10.1016/j.psc.2009.12.003. Review. — View Citation

O'Donovan MC, Craddock N, Norton N, Williams H, Peirce T, Moskvina V, Nikolov I, Hamshere M, Carroll L, Georgieva L, Dwyer S, Holmans P, Marchini JL, Spencer CC, Howie B, Leung HT, Hartmann AM, Möller HJ, Morris DW, Shi Y, Feng G, Hoffmann P, Propping P, Vasilescu C, Maier W, Rietschel M, Zammit S, Schumacher J, Quinn EM, Schulze TG, Williams NM, Giegling I, Iwata N, Ikeda M, Darvasi A, Shifman S, He L, Duan J, Sanders AR, Levinson DF, Gejman PV, Cichon S, Nöthen MM, Gill M, Corvin A, Rujescu D, Kirov G, Owen MJ, Buccola NG, Mowry BJ, Freedman R, Amin F, Black DW, Silverman JM, Byerley WF, Cloninger CR; Molecular Genetics of Schizophrenia Collaboration. Identification of loci associated with schizophrenia by genome-wide association and follow-up. Nat Genet. 2008 Sep;40(9):1053-5. doi: 10.1038/ng.201. — View Citation

O'Donovan MC, Norton N, Williams H, Peirce T, Moskvina V, Nikolov I, Hamshere M, Carroll L, Georgieva L, Dwyer S, Holmans P, Marchini JL, Spencer CC, Howie B, Leung HT, Giegling I, Hartmann AM, Möller HJ, Morris DW, Shi Y, Feng G, Hoffmann P, Propping P, Vasilescu C, Maier W, Rietschel M, Zammit S, Schumacher J, Quinn EM, Schulze TG, Iwata N, Ikeda M, Darvasi A, Shifman S, He L, Duan J, Sanders AR, Levinson DF, Adolfsson R, Osby U, Terenius L, Jönsson EG, Cichon S, Nöthen MM, Gill M, Corvin AP, Rujescu D, Gejman PV, Kirov G, Craddock N, Williams NM, Owen MJ; Molecular Genetics of Schizophrenia Collaboration. Analysis of 10 independent samples provides evidence for association between schizophrenia and a SNP flanking fibroblast growth factor receptor 2. Mol Psychiatry. 2009 Jan;14(1):30-6. doi: 10.1038/mp.2008.108. Epub 2008 Sep 23. — View Citation

Psychiatric GWAS Consortium Coordinating Committee, Cichon S, Craddock N, Daly M, Faraone SV, Gejman PV, Kelsoe J, Lehner T, Levinson DF, Moran A, Sklar P, Sullivan PF. Genomewide association studies: history, rationale, and prospects for psychiatric disorders. Am J Psychiatry. 2009 May;166(5):540-56. doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2008.08091354. Epub 2009 Apr 1. Review. — View Citation

Sanders AR, Duan J, Levinson DF, Shi J, He D, Hou C, Burrell GJ, Rice JP, Nertney DA, Olincy A, Rozic P, Vinogradov S, Buccola NG, Mowry BJ, Freedman R, Amin F, Black DW, Silverman JM, Byerley WF, Crowe RR, Cloninger CR, Martinez M, Gejman PV. No significant association of 14 candidate genes with schizophrenia in a large European ancestry sample: implications for psychiatric genetics. Am J Psychiatry. 2008 Apr;165(4):497-506. doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2007.07101573. Epub 2008 Jan 15. Erratum in: Am J Psychiatry. 2008 Oct;165(10):1359. — View Citation

Shi J, Levinson DF, Duan J, Sanders AR, Zheng Y, Pe'er I, Dudbridge F, Holmans PA, Whittemore AS, Mowry BJ, Olincy A, Amin F, Cloninger CR, Silverman JM, Buccola NG, Byerley WF, Black DW, Crowe RR, Oksenberg JR, Mirel DB, Kendler KS, Freedman R, Gejman PV. Common variants on chromosome 6p22.1 are associated with schizophrenia. Nature. 2009 Aug 6;460(7256):753-7. doi: 10.1038/nature08192. Epub 2009 Jul 1. — View Citation

Suarez BK, Duan J, Sanders AR, Hinrichs AL, Jin CH, Hou C, Buccola NG, Hale N, Weilbaecher AN, Nertney DA, Olincy A, Green S, Schaffer AW, Smith CJ, Hannah DE, Rice JP, Cox NJ, Martinez M, Mowry BJ, Amin F, Silverman JM, Black DW, Byerley WF, Crowe RR, Freedman R, Cloninger CR, Levinson DF, Gejman PV. Genomewide linkage scan of 409 European-ancestry and African American families with schizophrenia: suggestive evidence of linkage at 8p23.3-p21.2 and 11p13.1-q14.1 in the combined sample. Am J Hum Genet. 2006 Feb;78(2):315-33. Epub 2006 Jan 3. — View Citation

External Links

•   National Institute of Mental Health Center for Genetic Studies