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<p>Bipolar disorder (BD) and schizophrenia (SZ) are complex psychiatric disorders with overlapping features. Their heterogeneity may arise from interactions between genetic variants and environmental or epigenetic modifiers. Allele-specific expression (ASE), an imbalance in expression between gene alleles, provides a key mechanism linking these interactions to disease. We conducted transcriptomic and genomic analyses in phenotype-discordant monozygotic twins to investigate ASE in psychiatric risk. Nine ASE-affected long non-coding RNAs were identified, including <i>LINC02449</i>, which showed a consistent allele-specific shift in BD/SZ patients favoring the alternative G allele at rs149707223. Functional analyses revealed that overexpression of the <i>LINC02449</i> G allele in mice induced social deficits and repetitive behaviors. These phenotypes were associated with enhanced excitatory transmission within the mPFC-NAc circuit, mediated by the synaptic regulator CPLX1. Our findings demonstrate that ASE-driven dysregulation of <i>LINC02449</i> contributes to synaptic and behavioral abnormalities, underscoring ASE as a potentially important regulatory mechanism in BD and SZ pathogenesis.</p>

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Gain of Alternative Allele Expression of LINC02449 at rs149707223 in Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder: Inducing Synaptic Transmission and Behavioral Deficits in Mice

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    2025年11月4日

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  • Tengfei Yang,
  • Jin-Ming Liu,
  • Qiaqi Chen,
  • Zhiying Deng,
  • Chaoying Ni,
  • Yunqian Wang,
  • Yuting Lan,
  • Tingyun Jiang,
  • Shufen Li,
  • Meijun Jiang,
  • Hong Xue,
  • Xiong Cao,
  • Zhongju Wang,
  • Cunyou Zhao

摘要

Bipolar disorder (BD) and schizophrenia (SZ) are complex psychiatric disorders with overlapping features. Their heterogeneity may arise from interactions between genetic variants and environmental or epigenetic modifiers. Allele-specific expression (ASE), an imbalance in expression between gene alleles, provides a key mechanism linking these interactions to disease. We conducted transcriptomic and genomic analyses in phenotype-discordant monozygotic twins to investigate ASE in psychiatric risk. Nine ASE-affected long non-coding RNAs were identified, including LINC02449, which showed a consistent allele-specific shift in BD/SZ patients favoring the alternative G allele at rs149707223. Functional analyses revealed that overexpression of the LINC02449 G allele in mice induced social deficits and repetitive behaviors. These phenotypes were associated with enhanced excitatory transmission within the mPFC-NAc circuit, mediated by the synaptic regulator CPLX1. Our findings demonstrate that ASE-driven dysregulation of LINC02449 contributes to synaptic and behavioral abnormalities, underscoring ASE as a potentially important regulatory mechanism in BD and SZ pathogenesis.