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Influence of brain-derived neurotrophic factor and apolipoprotein E genetic variants on hemispheric and lateral ventricular volume of young healthy adults

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 June 2014

Christos Sidiropoulos ,
Kourosh Jafari-Khouzani ,
Hamid Soltanian-Zadeh ,
Panayiotis Mitsias ,
Panagiotis Alexopoulos ,
Tanja Richter-Schmidinger ,
Martin Reichel ,
Piotr Lewczuk ,
Arnd Doerfler  and
Johannes Kornhuber
Christos Sidiropoulos*
Affiliation:
Department of Neurology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, USA Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Friedrich-Alexander Universität, Erlangen, Germany
Kourosh Jafari-Khouzani
Affiliation:
Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, USA
Hamid Soltanian-Zadeh
Affiliation:
Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, USA
Panayiotis Mitsias
Affiliation:
Department of Neurology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, USA
Panagiotis Alexopoulos
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Friedrich-Alexander Universität, Erlangen, Germany Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
Tanja Richter-Schmidinger
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Friedrich-Alexander Universität, Erlangen, Germany
Martin Reichel
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Friedrich-Alexander Universität, Erlangen, Germany
Piotr Lewczuk
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Friedrich-Alexander Universität, Erlangen, Germany
Arnd Doerfler
Affiliation:
Department of Neuroradiology, Friedrich-Alexander Universität, Erlangen, Germany
Johannes Kornhuber
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Friedrich-Alexander Universität, Erlangen, Germany
*
Christos Sidiropoulos, Henry Ford Hospital, Department of Neurology, 2799 West Grand Blvd, Detroit, Michigan 48202, USA. Tel: +1 313 916 7957; Fax: +1 313 916 8038; E-mail: csidiro1@hfhs.org
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Objective: Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and apolipoprotein E (ApoE) are thought to be implicated in a variety of neuronal processes, including cell growth, resilience to noxious stimuli and synaptic plasticity. A Val to Met substitution at codon 66 in the BDNF protein has been associated with a variety of neuropsychiatric conditions. The ApoE4 allele is considered a risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer's disease, but its effects on young adults are less clear. We sought to investigate the effects of those two polymorphisms on hemispheric and lateral ventricular volumes of young healthy adults.

Methods: Hemispheric and lateral ventricular volumes of 144 healthy individuals, aged 19–35 years, were measured using high resolution magnetic resonance imaging and data were correlated with BDNF and ApoE genotypes.

Results: There were no correlations between BDNF or ApoE genotype and hemispheric or lateral ventricular volumes.

Conclusion: These findings indicate that it is unlikely that either the BDNF Val66Met or ApoE polymorphisms exert any significant effect on hemispheric or lateral ventricular volume. However, confounding epistatic genetic effects as well as relative insensitivity of the volumetric methods used cannot be ruled out. Further imaging analyses are warranted to better define any genetic influence of the BDNF Val6Met and ApoE polymorphism on brain structure of young healthy adults.

Keywords

apolipoprotein Ebrain-derived neurotrophic factormagnetic resonance imagingpolymorphismvolumetry
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Research Article
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Acta Neuropsychiatrica , Volume 23 , Issue 3 , June 2011 , pp. 132 - 138
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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