Research Article

Genetic Polymorphisms in miR-137 and Its Target Genes, TCF4 and CACNA1C, Contribute to the Risk of Bipolar Disorder: A Preliminary Case-Control Study and Bioinformatics Analysis

Table 4

Association of different genotype of the the studied variants with disease subtypes.

Disease typeCase genotypes of TCF4 rs1261084C/TTest of sigWithin-group comparisonCase genotypes of CACNA1C
rs10774053A/G
Test of sigWithin-group comparison
CC
CT
TT
AA
AG
GG
BDI41 (22.4)82 (44.8)60 (32.8): 0.384
: 0.825
: 0.585
: 0.561
: 0.938
36 (19.7)85 (46.4)62 (33.9): 2.83
: 0.242
: 0.093
: 0.275
: 0.560
BDII13 (18.8)32 (46.4)24 (34.8)20 (29.0)26 (37.7)23 (33.3)

Disease typeCase genotypes of CACNA1C
rs10466907G/T
Test of sigWithin-group comparisonCase genotypes of miR-137
rs1625579A/C
Test of sigWithin-group comparison
GG
GT
TT
AA
AC
CC
BDI57 (31.1)90 (49.2)36 (19.7): 6.68
: 0.036
: 0.014
: 0.425
: 0.184
65 (35.5)82 (44.8)36 (19.7): 2.46
: 0.292
: 0.668
: 0.226
: 0.117
BDII12 (17.4)46 (66.7)11 (15.9)25 (36.2)36 (52.2)8 (11.6)

BD: bipolar disorder; BDI: bipolar disorder type I; BDII: bipolar disorder type II; P1: wild-type homozygote vs. heterozygote genotype; : wild-type homozygote vs. mutant homozygote; : heterozygote vs. mutant homozygote. and represent the amount of Chi-square and asymptotic significance (2-sided), respectively. was considered statistically significant.