ANA GABRIELA HOUNIE
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LIM/21 - Laboratório de Neuroimagem em Psiquiatria, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina
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conferenceObject Association between MAO-A and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder related phenotypes(2013) SAMPAIO, A. S.; HOUNIE, A. G.; PETRIBU, K.; CAPPI, C.; MORAIS, I. A.; QUARANTINI, L. C.; FILHO, H. P. V.; ROSARIO, M. da Conceicao do; STEWART, S. E.; FARGENESS, J.; MATTHEWS, C.; ARNOLD, P.; RICHTER, M.; KENNEDY, J.; HANNA, G. L.; PAULS, D. L.; MIGUEL FILHO, E. C.- Association study between functional polymorphisms in the TNF-alpha gene and obsessive-compulsive disorder(2012) CAPPI, Carolina; MUNIZ, Renan Kawano; SAMPAIO, Aline Santos; CORDEIRO, Quirino; BRENTANI, Helena; PALACIOS, Selma A.; MARQUES, Andrea H.; VALLADA, Homero; MIGUEL, Euripedes Constantino; GUILHERME, Luiza; HOUNIE, Ana GabrielaObsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a prevalent psychiatric disorder of unknown etiology. However, there is some evidence that the immune system may play an important role in its pathogenesis. In the present study, two polymorphisms (rs1800795 and rs361525) in the promoter region of the cytokine tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNFA) gene were genotyped in 183 OCD patients and in 249 healthy controls. The statistical tests were performed using the PLINK (R) software. We found that the A allele of the TNFA rs361525 polymorphism was significantly associated with OCD subjects, according to the allelic x association test (p=0.007). The presence of genetic markers, such as inflammatory cytokines genes linked to OCD, may represent additional evidence supporting the rote of the immune system in its pathogenesis.
conferenceObject Does Inflammation Play a Role in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?(2013) SILVERMAN, Marni; CASSAB, Raony; MUNIZ, Renan; SHAVITT, Roseli G.; TOLEDO, Maria Cecilia; CAPPI, Carolina; THAYER, Julian; MATHIS, Maria Alice de; DINIZ, Juliana B.; HOEXTER, Marcelo Q.; D'ALCANTE, Carina C.; BORCATO, Sonia; HOUNIE, Ana G.; WHITFIELD, Jessie; BELYAVSKAYA, Elena; STERNBERG, Esther; MIGUEL, Euripedes; MARQUES, Andrea H.- Whole-exome Sequencing in Obsessive-compulsive Disorder Identifies Rare Mutations and Immunological Pathways(2014) CAPPI, Carolina; BRENTANI, Helena; LIMA, Leandro; SANDERS, Stephan J.; DINIZ, Juliana; WALKER, Michael; REIS, Viviane N. S.; HOUNIE, Ana G.; MARIANI, Daniel; OKI, Fabio H.; SHAVITT, Roseli G.; PAULS, David L.; MIGUEL, Euripedes C.; FERNANDEZ, Thomas V.
- Genome-wide association study of obsessive-compulsive disorder(2013) STEWART, S. E.; YU, D.; SCHARF, J. M.; NEALE, B. M.; FAGERNESS, J. A.; MATHEWS, C. A.; ARNOLD, P. D.; EVANS, P. D.; GAMAZON, E. R.; OSIECKI, L.; MCGRATH, L.; HADDAD, S.; CRANE, J.; HEZEL, D.; ILLMAN, C.; MAYERFELD, C.; KONKASHBAEV, A.; LIU, C.; PLUZHNIKOV, A.; TIKHOMIROV, A.; EDLUND, C. K.; RAUCH, S. L.; MOESSNER, R.; FALKAI, P.; MAIER, W.; RUHRMANN, S.; GRABE, H-J; LENNERTZ, L.; WAGNER, M.; BELLODI, L.; CAVALLINI, M. C.; RICHTER, M. A.; COOK JR., E. H.; KENNEDY, J. L.; ROSENBERG, D.; STEIN, D. J.; HEMMINGS, S. M. J.; LOCHNER, C.; AZZAM, A.; CHAVIRA, D. A.; FOURNIER, E.; GARRIDO, H.; SHEPPARD, B.; UMANA, P.; MURPHY, D. L.; WENDLAND, J. R.; VEENSTRA-VANDERWEELE, J.; DENYS, D.; BLOM, R.; DEFORCE, D.; NIEUWERBURGH, F. Van; WESTENBERG, H. G. M.; WALITZA, S.; EGBERTS, K.; RENNER, T.; MIGUEL, E. C.; CAPPI, C.; HOUNIE, A. G.; ROSARIO, M. Conceicao do; SAMPAIO, A. S.; VALLADA, H.; NICOLINI, H.; LANZAGORTA, N.; CAMARENA, B.; DELORME, R.; LEBOYER, M.; PATO, C. N.; PATO, M. T.; VOYIAZIAKIS, E.; HEUTINK, P.; CATH, D. C.; POSTHUMA, D.; SMIT, J. H.; SAMUELS, J.; BIENVENU, O. J.; CULLEN, B.; FYER, A. J.; GRADOS, M. A.; GREENBERG, B. D.; MCCRACKEN, J. T.; RIDDLE, M. A.; WANG, Y.; CORIC, V.; LECKMAN, J. F.; BLOCH, M.; PITTENGER, C.; EAPEN, V.; BLACK, D. W.; OPHOFF, R. A.; STRENGMAN, E.; CUSI, D.; TURIEL, M.; FRAU, F.; MACCIARDI, F.; GIBBS, J. R.; COOKSON, M. R.; SINGLETON, A.; HARDY, J.; CRENSHAW, A. T.; PARKIN, M. A.; MIREL, D. B.; CONTI, D. V.; PURCELL, S.; NESTADT, G.; HANNA, G. L.; JENIKE, M. A.; KNOWLES, J. A.; COX, N.; PAULS, D. L.Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a common, debilitating neuropsychiatric illness with complex genetic etiology. The International OCD Foundation Genetics Collaborative (IOCDF-GC) is a multi-national collaboration established to discover the genetic variation predisposing to OCD. A set of individuals affected with DSM-IV OCD, a subset of their parents, and unselected controls, were genotyped with several different Illumina SNP microarrays. After extensive data cleaning, 1465 cases, 5557 ancestry-matched controls and 400 complete trios remained, with a common set of 469 410 autosomal and 9657 X-chromosome single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). Ancestry-stratified case-control association analyses were conducted for three genetically-defined subpopulations and combined in two meta-analyses, with and without the trio-based analysis. In the case-control analysis, the lowest two P-values were located within DLGAP1 (P = 2.49 x 10(-6) and P = 3.44 x 10(-6)), a member of the neuronal postsynaptic density complex. In the trio analysis, rs6131295, near BTBD3, exceeded the genome-wide significance threshold with a P-value = 3.84 x 10(-8). However, when trios were meta-analyzed with the case-control samples, the P-value for this variant was 3.62 x 10(-5), losing genome-wide significance. Although no SNPs were identified to be associated with OCD at a genome-wide significant level in the combined trio-case-control sample, a significant enrichment of methylation QTLs (P < 0.001) and frontal lobe expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs) (P = 0.001) was observed within the top-ranked SNPs (P < 0.01) from the trio-case-control analysis, suggesting these top signals may have a broad role in gene expression in the brain, and possibly in the etiology of OCD.
article 8 Citação(ões) na Scopus The role of the VNTR functional polymorphism of the promoter region of the MAOA gene on psychiatric disorders(2011) NISHIOKA, Silvia A.; PERIN, Eduardo Aliende; SAMPAIO, Aline Santos; CORDEIRO, Quirino; CAPPI, Carolina; MASTROROSA, Rosana Savio; MORAIS, Ivanil A.; REIS, Viviane Neri de Souza; ROSARIO, Maria Conceicao do; HOUNIE, Ana GabrielaIntroduction: A functional variable number of tandem repeats (VNTR) polymorphism of the promoter region of the monoamine oxidase A (MAOA) gene has been described and many studies have investigated the association of this polymorphism with human behaviors, as well as with several psychiatric disorders. Objective: This study aimed to review the literature on the role of the VNTR functional polymorphism of the promoter region of the MAOA gene on the modulation of human behavior for the development of psychiatric disorders. Method: Searches on the Medline, Embase, Web of Science and PsycInfo databases were performed including works from January 1998 to June 2009. The words used were: ""MAOA and human behavior"" and ""MAOA and psychiatry"". Results: Several studies were found (N = 3,873). After the selection process, 109 papers were included in the review. There was found an association of MAOA low activity alleles with antisocial personality disorder, conduct disorder, ADHD, pathological gambling, and substance abuse. High activity alleles were associated with neuroticism, anorexia nervosa and depression and anxiety disorders. There was no association between the MAOA polymorphisms and bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. Discussion: The main findings, summarized in this paper, support a role of MAOA VNTR polymorphism in some psychiatric disorders although some divergences were found due to methodological difficulties in genetic studies. In general, the studies associated the low activity alleles with impulsivity and aggressive behavior (""hyperactive behaviors""), and the high activity alleles of the gene with ""hypoactive behaviors"", such as depression and anxiety, which demonstrates a modulation of the MAOA enzyme in ""hyperactive"" and ""hypoactive"" disorders.- Whole-exome sequencing in obsessive-compulsive disorder identifies rare mutations in immunological and neurodevelopmental pathways(2016) CAPPI, C.; BRENTANI, H.; LIMA, L.; SANDERS, S. J.; ZAI, G.; DINIZ, B. J.; REIS, V. N. S.; HOUNIE, A. G.; ROSARIO, M. Conceicao do; MARIANI, D.; REQUENA, G. L.; PUGA, R.; SOUZA-DURAN, F. L.; SHAVITT, R. G.; PAULS, D. L.; MIGUEL, E. C.; FERNANDEZ, T. V.Studies of rare genetic variation have identified molecular pathways conferring risk for developmental neuropsychiatric disorders. To date, no published whole-exome sequencing studies have been reported in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). We sequenced all the genome coding regions in 20 sporadic OCD cases and their unaffected parents to identify rare de novo (DN) single-nucleotide variants (SNVs). The primary aim of this pilot study was to determine whether DN variation contributes to OCD risk. To this aim, we evaluated whether there is an elevated rate of DN mutations in OCD, which would justify this approach toward gene discovery in larger studies of the disorder. Furthermore, to explore functional molecular correlations among genes with nonsynonymous DN SNVs in OCD probands, a protein-protein interaction (PPI) network was generated based on databases of direct molecular interactions. We applied Degree-Aware Disease Gene Prioritization (DADA) to rank the PPI network genes based on their relatedness to a set of OCD candidate genes from two OCD genome-wide association studies (Stewart et al., 2013; Mattheisen et al., 2014). In addition, we performed a pathway analysis with genes from the PPI network. The rate of DN SNVs in OCD was 2.51 x 10(-8) per base per generation, significantly higher than a previous estimated rate in unaffected subjects using the same sequencing platform and analytic pipeline. Several genes harboring DN SNVs in OCD were highly interconnected in the PPI network and ranked high in the DADA analysis. Nearly all the DN SNVs in this study are in genes expressed in the human brain, and a pathway analysis revealed enrichment in immunological and central nervous system functioning and development. The results of this pilot study indicate that further investigation of DN variation in larger OCD cohorts is warranted to identify specific risk genes and to confirm our preliminary finding with regard to PPI network enrichment for particular biological pathways and functions.
- COMT and MAO-A Polymorphisms and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Family-Based Association Study(2015) SAMPAIO, Aline Santos; HOUNIE, Ana Gabriela; PETRIBU, Katia; CAPPI, Carolina; MORAIS, Ivanil; VALLADA, Homero; ROSARIO, Maria Conceicao do; STEWART, S. Evelyn; FARGENESS, Jesen; MATHEWS, Carol; ARNOLD, Paul; HANNA, Gregory L.; RICHTER, Margaret; KENNEDY, James; FONTENELLE, Leonardo; PEREIRA, Carlos Alberto de Braganca; PAULS, David L.; MIGUEL, Euripedes ConstantinoObjective Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a common and debilitating psychiatric illness. Although a genetic component contributes to its etiology, no single gene or mechanism has been identified to the OCD susceptibility. The catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) and monoamine oxidase A (MAO-A) genes have been investigated in previous OCD studies, but the results are still unclear. More recently, Taylor (2013) in a comprehensive meta-analysis of genetic association studies has identified COMT and MAO-A polymorphisms involved with OCD. In an effort to clarify the role of these two genes in OCD vulnerability, a family-based association investigation was performed as an alternative strategy to the classical case-control design. Methods Transmission disequilibrium analyses were performed after genotyping 13 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (eight in COMT and five in MAO-A) in 783 OCD trios (probands and their parents). Four different OCD phenotypes (from narrow to broad OCD definitions) and a SNP x SNP epistasis were also analyzed. Results OCD, broad and narrow phenotypes, were not associated with any of the investigated COMT and MAO-A polymorphisms. In addition, the analyses of gene-gene interaction did not show significant epistatic influences on phenotype between COMT and MAO-A. Conclusions The findings do not support an association between DSM-IV OCD and the variants of COMT or MAO-A. However, results from this study cannot exclude the contribution of these genes in the manifestation of OCD. The evaluation of broader spectrum phenotypes could help to understand the role of these and other genes in the pathophysiology of OCD and its spectrum disorders.
conferenceObject The State of Art of Association between COMT gene and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder(2013) SAMPAIO, A. S.; QUARANTINI, L. C.; TELES, C.; CAPPI, C.; DALTRO-OLIVEIRA, R.; LINS, R. P.; HOUNIE, A. G.; MIGUEL, E. C.conferenceObject Does inflammation play a role in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder?(2013) SILVERMAN, M.; CASSAB, R.; MUNIZ, R.; SHAVITT, R. G.; TOLEDO, M. C.; CAPPI, C.; THAYER, J.; MATHIS, A. de; DINIZ, J.; HOEXTER, M.; ALCANTE, C. D.; BORCATO, S.; HOUNIE, A. G.; WHITFIELD, J.; BELYAVSKAYA, E.; STERNBERG, E.; MIGUEL, E.; MARQUES, A.