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Published in final edited form as: Pharmacol Biochem Behav. 2014 Feb 15;123:3–16. doi: 10.1016/j.pbb.2014.02.004

Table 3.

Human pharmacogenetic studies related to neurotransmitter systems and lithium therapy response. BD, bipolar disorder; SNP, single nucleotide polymorphism.

Gene and marker Subjects Finding Reference
DRD3, BalI BD/major depression patients mixed, European (21M, 34F) No association with lithium response Serretti et al. (1998)
DRD2, S311C VNTR; DRD4 multiple variants; GABRA1 multiple variants BD and major depression patients mixed, European (47M, 78F) No association with lithium response Serretti et al. (1999a)
TPH, Bfal BD and major depression patients mixed, European (39M, 69F) A trend toward worse lithium response was found in TPH*A/A variant carriers. Serretti et al. (1999b)
HTR2A T102C, C1420T; HTR2C Cys23-Ser23; HTR1A no variant was found BD and major depression patients mixed, European (49M, 75F with different subject numbers for each gene) No association with lithium response Serretti et al. (2000)
5-HTTLPR (a 44-bp promoter polymorphism that regulates expression levels) BD/major depression patients mixed, European (83M, 118F) Homozygous carriers of the short variant were associated with a worse response to lithium. Serretti et al. (2001)
COMT, G158A; MAOA-30 bp uVNTR; GNB3 C825T BD/major depression patients mixed, European (N = 201, with different subject numbers for each gene) No association with lithium response Serretti et al. (2002)
5-HTTLPR BD patients, European (28M, 55F) Homozygous carriers of the long variant were associated with a worse response to lithium. Serretti et al. (2004)
HTR2A, T102C; HTR2C, G68C BD patients, European (39M, 53F) No association with lithium response Dmitrzak-Wêglarz et al. (2005)
5-HTTLPR BD patients, European (27M, 40F) Short allele carriers were associated with a worse response to lithium. Rybakowski et al. (2005b)
5-HTTLPR; TFAP2B, CAAA BD patients, mixed backgrounds, mostly Caucasian (43M, 91F) No association with lithium response Michelon et al. (2006)
CACNG2, rs2284017, rs2284018, rs5750285 (and nine additional SNPs) BD patients and controls from two different European centers (N = 383) rs2284017, rs2284018 and rs5750285 were found to be associated with lithium response. Silberberg et al. (2008)
5-HTTLPR Treatment resistant depression patients, European (22M, 28F) Homozygous carriers of the short variant were associated with response to lithium augmentation. Stamm et al. (2008)
HTR2A, Mspl; DRD1, T800C, A48G, T1403C; DRD2, Ncol, TaqIA; DRD3, Mscl; DAT1, VNTR; 5-HTTLPR BD/schizoaffective disorder BD type patients, European (42M, 113F) No association with lithium response Manchia et al. (2009a)
Genome-wide association study BD patients, multiple centers (N = 458 in US, N = 359 in UK) No SNPs reached genome-wide significance. Suggestive evidence for association with lithium response from SNPs including the chromosomal region of GRIA2 gene among others Perlis et al. (2009)
DRD1, −48 A/G BD patients, European (39M, 53F) G/G genotype significantly less likely to be found in excellent responders Rybakowski et al. (2009)
FYN, rs706895, rs6916861, rs3730353 BD patients, European (43M, 58F) A trend was observed toward an association between the T allele of rs3730353 and worse lithium response. Szczepankiewicz et al. (2009a)
GRIN2B, rs7301328, rs890, rs1019385 BD patients, European (42M, 63F) No association with lithium response. Szczepankiewicz et al. (2009b)
5-HTTLPR, STin2 VNTR BD patients (65M, 57F) STin2.12/10 and 10/10 variants when combined together were associated a worse response to lithium. 5-HTTLPR variants were not associated with lithium response. Tharoor et al. (2013)
Genome-wide association study BD patients, Han Chinese (191M, 203F) Significant genome-wide associations between lithium response and intronic SNPs rs17026688 and rs17026651 (P = 1.66 × 10−49 and P = 7.07 × 10−50), located within the GADL1 gene. Chen et al. (2014)