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Published in final edited form as: Neurobiol Dis. 2011 Sep 3;45(1):48–56. doi: 10.1016/j.nbd.2011.08.025

Table 2.

Other neuronal and glial genes differentially expressed in postmortem brains of SCZ and BPD patients and the corresponding genetic mouse models.

Subgroup Gene References Mouse models Positive findings References
Schizophrenia: decreased
Myelin
proteins
2',3'-cyclic nucleotide 3' phosphodiesterase (CNP) (Hakak et al., 2001)
(McCullumsmith et al., 2007)
(Dracheva et al., 2006)
Cnp KO Compromised axonal survival (Lappe-Siefke et al., 2003)
Neurogenesis Neural precursor cell expressed, developmentally down-regulated
8 (NEDD8)
(Bowden et al., 2008)
(Altar et al., 2005)
Neuron
development
Sema domain, seven thrombospondin repeats (type 1 and type 1-
like), transmembrane domain and short cytoplasmic domain,
(semaphorin) 5A (SEMA5A)
(Altar et al., 2005)
Ubiquitin carboxyl-terminal esterase L1 (ubiquitin thiolesterase)
(UCHL1)
(Vawter et al., 2001)
(Altar et al., 2005)

Schizophrenia: increased
Neuron
development
Sema domain, seven thrombospondin repeats (type 1 and type 1-
like), transmembrane domain and short cytoplasmic domain,
(semaphorin) 5A (SEMA5A)
(Bowden et al., 2008)

Schizophrenia and bipolar: decreased
Myelin
proteins
Claudin 11 (CLDN11) (Dracheva et al., 2006)
(Tkachev et al., 2003)
OSP/claudin-11 KO Tight junctions missing in CNS myelin,
slowed conduction, hindlimb
weakness
(Gow et al., 1999)
Myelin associated glycoprotein (MAG) (Hakak et al., 2001)
(Aston et al., 2004)
(Dracheva et al., 2006)
(McCullumsmith et al., 2007)
(Tkachev et al., 2003)
MAG KO Motor deficits, hyperactive, axon
degeneration
(Pan et al., 2005)
SRY (sex determining region Y)-box 10 (SOX10) (Dracheva et al., 2006)
(Tkachev et al., 2003)
(Iwamoto et al., 2005)
SOX10 KO Die ~birth, no peripheral glia, no
terminal differentiation of myelin
forming oligodendrocytes
(Britsch et al., 2001),
(Stolt et al., 2002)
Transferrin (TF) (McCullumsmith et al., 2007)
(Hakak et al., 2001)
(Arion et al., 2007)
(Tkachev et al., 2003)
Neuropeptides Neuropeptide Y (NPY) (Kuromitsu et al., 2001) NPY KO Anxiogenic in the open field,
hypoalgesic
(Bannon et al., 2000)
Somatostatin (SST) (Hashimoto et al., 2008)
(Hashimoto et al., 2008)
(Bowden et al., 2008)
(Konradi et al., 2004)
NPY Y2 receptor KO
Sst KO
Hyperlocomotion in a novel open field
Impaired motor learning
(Karl et al., 2010)
(Zeyda et al., 2001)