Benseler, Fritz

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In particular, the specific contribution of risk or candidate gene variants to the complex schizophrenic phenotype is largely unknown. Objective: To prepare the ground for a novel “phenomics” approach, a unique schizophrenia patient database was established by GRAS (Göttingen Research Association for Schizophrenia), designed to allow association of genetic information with quantifiable phenotypes. Because synaptic dysfunction plays a key role in schizophrenia, the complexin 2 gene (CPLX2) was examined in the first phenotype-based genetic association study (PGAS) of GRAS. Design: Subsequent to a classic case-control approach, we analyzed the contribution of CPLX2 polymorphisms to discrete cognitive domains within the schizophrenic population. To gain mechanistic insight into how certain CPLX2 variants influence gene expression and function, peripheral blood mononuclear cells of patients, Cplxnull mutantmice, and transfected cells were investigated.Setting: Coordinating research center (Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine) and 23 collaboratingpsychiatric centers all over Germany.Participants: One thousand seventy-one patients with schizophrenia (DSM-IV) examined by an invariant investigator team, resulting in the GRAS database with more than 3000 phenotypic data points per patient, and 1079 healthy control subjects of comparable ethnicity.Main Outcome Measure: Cognitive performance including executive functioning, reasoning, and verbal learning/memory. Results: Six single-nucleotide polymorphisms, distributed over the whole CPLX2 gene, were found to be highly associated with current cognition of schizophrenic subjects but only marginally with premorbid intelligence. Correspondingly, in Cplx2-null mutant mice, prominent cognitive loss of function was obtained only in combination with a minor brain lesion applied during puberty, modeling a clinically relevant environmental risk (“second hit”) for schizophrenia. In the human CPLX2 gene, 1 of the identified 6 cognition-relevant single-nucleotide polymorphisms, rs3822674 in the 3´ untranslated region, was detected to influence microRNA-498 binding and gene expression. The same marker was associated with differential expression of CPLX2 in peripheral blood mononuclear cells. Conclusions: The PGAS allows identification of markerassociated clinical/biological traits. Current cognitive performance in schizophrenic patients is modified by CPLX2 variants modulating posttranscriptional gene expression"],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2010.107"],["dc.identifier.fs","577608"],["dc.identifier.gro","3150567"],["dc.identifier.purl","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gs-1/6097"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/7343"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.intern","Migrated from goescholar"],["dc.notes.status","final"],["dc.rights.access","closedAccess"],["dc.subject","Schizophrenia"],["dc.subject.ddc","610"],["dc.title","Modification of cognitive performance in schizophrenia by complexin 2 gene polymorphisms"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","unknown"],["dc.type.peerReviewed","no"],["dc.type.version","published_version"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]

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[["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","340"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.issue","3"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","345"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","156B"],["dc.contributor.author","Papiol, Sergi"],["dc.contributor.author","Begemann, Martin"],["dc.contributor.author","Rosenberger, Albert"],["dc.contributor.author","Friedrichs, Heidi"],["dc.contributor.author","Ribbe, Katja"],["dc.contributor.author","Grube, Sabrina"],["dc.contributor.author","Schwab, Markus H."],["dc.contributor.author","Jahn, Henriette"],["dc.contributor.author","Gunkel, Stefan"],["dc.contributor.author","Benseler, Fritz"],["dc.contributor.author","Nave, Klaus-Armin"],["dc.contributor.author","Ehrenreich, Hannelore"],["dc.date.accessioned","2017-09-07T11:46:36Z"],["dc.date.available","2017-09-07T11:46:36Z"],["dc.date.issued","2011"],["dc.description.abstract","By pure endpoint diagnosis of the disease, the risk of developing schizophrenia has been repeatedly associated with specific variants of the neuregulin1 (NRG1) gene. However, the role of NRG1 in the etiology of schizophrenia has remained unclear. Since Nrg1 serves vital functions in early brain development of mice, we hypothesized that human NRG1 alleles codetermine developmentally influenced readouts of the disease: age of onset and positive symptom severity. We analyzed 1,071 comprehensively phenotyped schizophrenic/schizoaffective patients, diagnosed according to DSM-IV-TR, from the GRAS (Göttingen Research Association for Schizophrenia) Data Collection for genetic variability in the Icelandic region of risk in the NRG1 gene. For the case-control analysis part of the study, we included 1,056 healthy individuals with comparable ethnicity. The phenotype-based genetic association study (PGAS) was performed on the GRAS sample. Instead of a risk constellation, we detected that several haplotypic variants of NRG1 were, unexpectedly, less frequent in the schizophrenic than in the control sample (mean OR=0.78, range between 0.68 and 0.85). In the PGAS we found that these \"protective\" NRG1 variants are specifically underrepresented in subgroups of schizophrenic subjects with early age of onset and high positive symptom load. The GRAS Data Collection as a prerequisite for PGAS has enabled us to associate protective NRG1 genotypes with later onset and milder course of schizophrenia."],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1002/ajmg.b.31168"],["dc.identifier.gro","3150547"],["dc.identifier.pmid","21234898"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/7321"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.status","final"],["dc.title","A phenotype-based genetic association study reveals the contribution of neuregulin1 gene variants to age of onset and positive symptom severity in schizophrenia"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","unknown"],["dc.type.peerReviewed","yes"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]

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[["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","5704"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.issue","12"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Molecular Biology and Evolution"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","5725"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","38"],["dc.contributor.author","Gettings, Sean M."],["dc.contributor.author","Maxeiner, Stephan"],["dc.contributor.author","Tzika, Maria"],["dc.contributor.author","Cobain, Matthew R. D."],["dc.contributor.author","Ruf, Irina"],["dc.contributor.author","Benseler, Fritz"],["dc.contributor.author","Brose, Nils"],["dc.contributor.author","Krasteva-Christ, Gabriela"],["dc.contributor.author","Vande Velde, Greetje"],["dc.contributor.author","Schönberger, Matthias"],["dc.contributor.editor","Yeager, Meredith"],["dc.date.accessioned","2022-03-01T11:46:46Z"],["dc.date.available","2022-03-01T11:46:46Z"],["dc.date.issued","2021"],["dc.description.abstract","Abstract The epithelial sodium channel (ENaC) plays a key role in salt and water homeostasis in tetrapod vertebrates. There are four ENaC subunits (α, β, γ, δ), forming heterotrimeric αβγ- or δβγ-ENaCs. Although the physiology of αβγ-ENaC is well understood, for decades the field has stalled with respect to δβγ-ENaC due to the lack of mammalian model organisms. The SCNN1D gene coding for δ-ENaC was previously believed to be absent in rodents, hindering studies using standard laboratory animals. We analyzed all currently available rodent genomes and discovered that SCNN1D is present in rodents but was independently lost in five rodent lineages, including the Muridae (mice and rats). The independent loss of SCNN1D in rodent lineages may be constrained by phylogeny and taxon-specific adaptation to dry habitats, however habitat aridity does not provide a selection pressure for maintenance of SCNN1D across Rodentia. A fusion of two exons coding for a structurally flexible region in the extracellular domain of δ-ENaC appeared in the Hystricognathi (a group that includes guinea pigs). This conserved pattern evolved at least 41 Ma and represents a new autapomorphic feature for this clade. Exon fusion does not impair functionality of guinea pig (Cavia porcellus) δβγ-ENaC expressed in Xenopus oocytes. Electrophysiological characterization at the whole-cell and single-channel level revealed conserved biophysical features and mechanisms controlling guinea pig αβγ- and δβγ-ENaC function as compared with human orthologs. Guinea pigs therefore represent commercially available mammalian model animals that will help shed light on the physiological function of δ-ENaC."],["dc.description.abstract","Abstract The epithelial sodium channel (ENaC) plays a key role in salt and water homeostasis in tetrapod vertebrates. There are four ENaC subunits (α, β, γ, δ), forming heterotrimeric αβγ- or δβγ-ENaCs. Although the physiology of αβγ-ENaC is well understood, for decades the field has stalled with respect to δβγ-ENaC due to the lack of mammalian model organisms. The SCNN1D gene coding for δ-ENaC was previously believed to be absent in rodents, hindering studies using standard laboratory animals. We analyzed all currently available rodent genomes and discovered that SCNN1D is present in rodents but was independently lost in five rodent lineages, including the Muridae (mice and rats). The independent loss of SCNN1D in rodent lineages may be constrained by phylogeny and taxon-specific adaptation to dry habitats, however habitat aridity does not provide a selection pressure for maintenance of SCNN1D across Rodentia. A fusion of two exons coding for a structurally flexible region in the extracellular domain of δ-ENaC appeared in the Hystricognathi (a group that includes guinea pigs). This conserved pattern evolved at least 41 Ma and represents a new autapomorphic feature for this clade. Exon fusion does not impair functionality of guinea pig (Cavia porcellus) δβγ-ENaC expressed in Xenopus oocytes. Electrophysiological characterization at the whole-cell and single-channel level revealed conserved biophysical features and mechanisms controlling guinea pig αβγ- and δβγ-ENaC function as compared with human orthologs. Guinea pigs therefore represent commercially available mammalian model animals that will help shed light on the physiological function of δ-ENaC."],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1093/molbev/msab271"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/103794"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.intern","DOI-Import GROB-531"],["dc.relation.eissn","1537-1719"],["dc.title","Two Functional Epithelial Sodium Channel Isoforms Are Present in Rodents despite Pronounced Evolutionary Pseudogenization and Exon Fusion"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","unknown"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]

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[["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","15"],["dc.contributor.author","Maxeiner, Stephan"],["dc.contributor.author","Benseler, Fritz"],["dc.contributor.author","Brose, Nils"],["dc.contributor.author","Krasteva-Christ, Gabriela"],["dc.date.accessioned","2022-05-02T08:09:32Z"],["dc.date.available","2022-05-02T08:09:32Z"],["dc.date.issued","2022"],["dc.description.abstract","The neural cell adhesion protein neuroligin-4 has puzzled neuroscientists and geneticist alike for almost two decades. Its clinical association with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) is well established, however, its diversification into sex chromosome-specific copies, NLGN4X and NLGN4Y , remains uncharted territory. Just recently, the presence of substantial neuroligin-4 sequence differences between humans and laboratory mice, in which Nlgn4 is a pseudoautosomal gene, could be explained as a consequence of dramatic changes affecting the pseudoautosomal region on both sex chromosomes in a subset of rodents, the clade eumuroida. In this study, we describe the presence of sex chromosome-specific copies of neuroligin-4 genes in the Mongolian gerbil ( Meriones unguiculatus ) marking the first encounter of its kind in rodents. Gerbils are members of the family Muridae and are closely related to mice and rats. Our results have been incorporated into an extended evolutionary analysis covering primates, rodents, lagomorphs, treeshrews and culogos comprising together the mammalian superorder euarchontoglires. We gathered evidence that substantial changes in neuroligin-4 genes have also occurred outside eumuroida in other rodent species as well as in lagomorphs. These changes feature, e.g., a general reduction of its gene size, an increase in its average GC-content as well as in the third position (GC3) of synonymous codons, and the accumulation of repetitive sequences in line with previous observations. We further show conclusively that the diversification of neuroligin-4 in sex chromosome-specific copies has happened multiple times independently during mammal evolution proving that Y-chromosomal NLGN4Y genes do not originate from a single common NLGN4Y ancestor."],["dc.description.abstract","The neural cell adhesion protein neuroligin-4 has puzzled neuroscientists and geneticist alike for almost two decades. Its clinical association with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) is well established, however, its diversification into sex chromosome-specific copies, NLGN4X and NLGN4Y , remains uncharted territory. Just recently, the presence of substantial neuroligin-4 sequence differences between humans and laboratory mice, in which Nlgn4 is a pseudoautosomal gene, could be explained as a consequence of dramatic changes affecting the pseudoautosomal region on both sex chromosomes in a subset of rodents, the clade eumuroida. In this study, we describe the presence of sex chromosome-specific copies of neuroligin-4 genes in the Mongolian gerbil ( Meriones unguiculatus ) marking the first encounter of its kind in rodents. Gerbils are members of the family Muridae and are closely related to mice and rats. Our results have been incorporated into an extended evolutionary analysis covering primates, rodents, lagomorphs, treeshrews and culogos comprising together the mammalian superorder euarchontoglires. We gathered evidence that substantial changes in neuroligin-4 genes have also occurred outside eumuroida in other rodent species as well as in lagomorphs. These changes feature, e.g., a general reduction of its gene size, an increase in its average GC-content as well as in the third position (GC3) of synonymous codons, and the accumulation of repetitive sequences in line with previous observations. We further show conclusively that the diversification of neuroligin-4 in sex chromosome-specific copies has happened multiple times independently during mammal evolution proving that Y-chromosomal NLGN4Y genes do not originate from a single common NLGN4Y ancestor."],["dc.identifier.doi","10.3389/fnmol.2022.838262"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/107406"],["dc.notes.intern","DOI Import GROB-561"],["dc.relation.eissn","1662-5099"],["dc.rights.uri","https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"],["dc.title","Of Humans and Gerbils— Independent Diversification of Neuroligin-4 Into X- and Y-Specific Genes in Primates and Rodents"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]