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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Mar 15.
Published in final edited form as: Expert Opin Drug Metab Toxicol. 2011 Jan;7(1):9–37. doi: 10.1517/17425255.2011.532787

Table 3.

Studies of associations of genetics variants and antipsychotic-induced weight gain.

Gene/SNP 1st Author/year Sample (n) Study Design Antipsychotic p Findings
5HT2C
C759T
(rs3813929)
Reynolds 2002183, 184 123 Chinese first-
episode patients
10 weeks OL Chlorpromazine
Risperidone
Clozapine
fluphenazine
<.01 C allele was associated with higher
weight gain
Tsai 2002184 80 Chinese treatment-
resistant patients
4 months OL clozapine n.s. No association
Basile 2002185 73 Caucasian and
African American
treatment-resistant
patients
6 weeks OL clozapine n.s. Non-significant trend towards higher
weight gain associated with the T
allele
Reynolds 2003186 32 Chinese first-
episode patients
6 weeks OL clozapine <.05 C allele and C/C genotype were
associated with higher weight gain,
especially in men
Miller 2005187 41 American treatment-
resistant patients
6 months OL Clozapine <.01 C allele was associated with higher
weight gain
Ellingrod 2005188 42 American acutely
psychotic patients
6 weeks OL Olanzapine <.001 T allele was associated with less
weight gain
Templeman 2005189 73 Spanish Caucasian
first-episode patients
10 weeks OL Various APs <.05 T allele was associated with less
weight gain
Theisen 2005190 97 Caucasian patients Case-ontrol clozapine n.s. No association
Lane 2006191 123 Chinese acutely
psychotic patients
6 weeks OL risperidone <.05 T allele was associated with less
weight gain
Ryu 2007192 84 Korean patients 4 week OL Six antipsychotics <.05 T allele was associated with less
weight gain
Park 2008193 79 Korean patients 3 months OL olanzapine n.s. No association
Ujike 200899 164 Japanese patients 8-24 weeks
OL
olanzapine n.s. No association
Kuzman 2008194 108 female Croatian
Caucasian patients
4 months OL Olanzapine
risperidone
n.s. No association
Godlewska 2009195 107 Polish patients
including 36 first-
episode patients
6 weeks OL olanzapine <.01 T allele was associated with less
weight gain
Gunes 2009196 46 Swedish patients Case-control Olanzapine
clozapine
<.05 C allele was associated with obesity in
clozapine-treated patients
Opgen-Rhein 2010197 128 German Caucasian
patients
Case-control Various AP <.05 C allele was associated with more
weight gain
Thompson 201097 216 American aptients
with mixed ethnicities
7 months OL Iloperidone n.s. No association
GNB3
825-C/T
Tsai 2004198 87 Chinese patients 4 months OL Clozapine n.s. No association
Wang 2005199 134 Chinese patients 13 months OL Clozapine <.01 T/T genotype was associated with
more weight gain
Bishop 2006200 42 Caucasian patients 6 weeks OL Olanzapine n.s. Non-significant trend toward TT
genotype with more weight gain
Ujike 200899 164 Japanese patients 8-24 weeks
OL
olanzapine <.05 T allele was associated with more
weight gain
Park 2009100 104 Korean patients 3 months OL olanzapine n.s. No association