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- Title
Association Study on Pathological Gambling and Polymorphisms of Dopamine D1, D2, D3, and D4 Receptor Genes in a Korean Population.
- Authors
Lim, Sewon; Ha, Juwon; Choi, Sam-Wook; Kang, Seung-Gul; Shin, Young-Chul
- Abstract
Several studies have reported that some dopaminergic receptor polymorphisms are associated with pathological gambling (PG). Considering that there are major race and ethnic group difference in dopaminergic polymorphisms, the result of genetic association studies should be confirmed in more homogeneous population to avoid problems of population stratification. The present study aimed to investigate whether selected polymorphisms in the dopamine receptors genes (DRD1, DRD2, DRD3, and DRD4) are associated with PG in Korean population which is consisted of only Korean ancestry. Subjects were 104 men with a diagnosis of PG and 114 unrelated age-matched normal control men. Genotyping was performed for the DRD1 gene -48 A/G, DRD2 gene TaqI A, DRD3 gene Ser9Gly, and DRD4 gene exon III variable number tandem repeat polymorphisms. The method of multifactor dimensionality reduction (MDR) was used to analyze gene-gene interactions. There were no differences in the frequencies of any studied polymorphisms between patients with PG and normal controls. MDR analysis did not show a significant effect of the 4 dopamine receptor gene polymorphisms on susceptibility to PG ( P > 0.05). The present study suggests that the analyzed polymorphisms of the dopamine receptor genes might not be associated with PG in a Korean population.
- Subjects
COMPULSIVE gambling; GENETIC polymorphisms; DOPAMINE receptors; KOREANS; ETHNIC groups; DIMENSION reduction (Statistics); DISEASE susceptibility
- Publication
Journal of Gambling Studies, 2012, Vol 28, Issue 3, p481
- ISSN
1050-5350
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10899-011-9261-1