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Association between smoking behaviour and genetic variants of glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor

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Glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) promotes development and differentiation of dopaminergic neurons, thus it has an important role in dopamine-related neuropsychiatric disorders. Since the role of dopamine system in smoking is well established, we hypothesized that GDNF gene variants may affect smoking behaviour. Self-reported data on smoking behaviour (never smoked, quit, occasional, or regular smokers) and level of nicotine addiction (Hooked on Nicotine Checklist and Fagerstrom Nicotine Addiction Scale), anxiety, as well as buccal samples were obtained from 930 Hungarian young adults (18–35 years). Genetic analysis involved eight GDNF single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) (rs1981844, rs3812047, rs3096140, rs2973041, rs2910702, rs1549250, rs2973050 and rs11111). Allele-wise association analyses of the eight GDNF SNPs provided a significant association between smoking behaviour and rs3096140 (P = 0.0039). The minor allele (C) was more frequent in those groups who smoked in some form (quit, occasional or regular smokers) as compared to those who never smoked (P = 0.0046). This result remained significant after Bonferroni correction for multiple testing. In the ever smoking group, no significant differences were found in the level of nicotine addiction by the alleles of these polymorphisms. Also, no significant interaction of rs3096140 and smoking categories were observed on anxiety mean scores. Although previous data demonstrated an association between GDNF rs2910704 and severity of methamphetamine use to the best of our knowledge, this is the first study on the role of GDNF genetic variations in smoking behaviour. Our results suggest that GDNF rs3096140 might be involved in the genetic background of smoking, independent of anxiety characteristics.

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This work was supported by the Hungarian Scientific Research Funds (OTKA K100845, K83766 and K111938) and we thank the Active Psychology Foundation and the postdoctoral scholarship awarded to Eszter Kotyuk by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

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  1. Postdoctoral Research Program, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Széchenyi István tér 9., 1051, Budapest, Hungary

    ESZTER KOTYUK

  2. Institute of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Izabella u. 46, H-1064, Budapest, Hungary

    ESZTER KOTYUK, ZSOLT DEMETROVICS & ANNA SZEKELY

  3. Institute of Medical Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Pathobiochemistry, Semmelweis University, Tűzoltó utca 37-43, H-1094, Budapest, Hungary

    NORA NEMETH, ZSOLT RONAI & MARIA SASVARI-SZEKELY

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[Kotyuk E., Nemeth N., Ronai Z., Demetrovics Z., Sasvari-Szekely M. and Szekely A. 2016 Association between smoking behaviour and genetic variants of glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor. J. Genet. 95, xx–xx]

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KOTYUK, E., NEMETH, N., RONAI, Z. et al. Association between smoking behaviour and genetic variants of glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor. J Genet 95, 811–818 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12041-016-0701-7

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