Ishiguro H, Arinami T, Saito T, Akazawa S, Enomoto M, Mitushio H, Fujishiro H, Tada K, Akimoto Y, Mifune H, Shioduka S, Hamaguchi H, Toru M, Shibuya H
Department of Neuropsychiatry, Tokyo Medical and Dental University School of Medicine, Japan.
Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 1998 Jun;22(4):845-8.
Dopamine D2 receptors have been implicated in the biology of alcohol preference. We examined the -141 C Ins/Del polymorphism in the promoter region of the dopamine D2 receptor gene (DRD2) and the DRD2 TaqI A polymorphisms in 209 Japanese alcoholics and 152 age- and sex-matched Japanese controls. The Ins allele was significantly increased in the alcoholics, compared with the controls (p < 0.002, odds ratio = 1.82). The TaqI A1 allele tended to be more frequent in the alcoholics than in the controls (p < 0.04). Linkage disequilibrium between these two polymorphisms was weak (a maximum delta value = 0.13). The -141 C Ins/Del polymorphism may affect the vulnerability for alcoholism presumably through different expression of DRD2 in the Japanese.
多巴胺D2受体与酒精偏好的生物学机制有关。我们检测了209名日本酗酒者和152名年龄及性别匹配的日本对照者的多巴胺D2受体基因(DRD2)启动子区域的-141 C Ins/Del多态性以及DRD2 TaqI A多态性。与对照组相比,酗酒者中Ins等位基因显著增加(p < 0.002,优势比 = 1.82)。TaqI A1等位基因在酗酒者中往往比对照组更常见(p < 0.04)。这两种多态性之间的连锁不平衡较弱(最大δ值 = 0.13)。-141 C Ins/Del多态性可能通过日本人中DRD2的不同表达影响酗酒易感性。