No association of the SLC1A2 rs3794087 allele with risk for essential tremor in the Spanish population.

BACKGROUND/AIMS: A recent genome-wide association study and other replication studies have suggested that the rs3794087 single nucleotide polymorphism in the solute carrier family 1 - glial affinity glutamate transporter-member 2 (SLC1A2) gene is associated with an increased risk for essential tremor (ET), and a replication study in an Asian cohort has shown a decreased risk for ET associated with the rs3794087T allele. We tried to replicate this association in a White Spanish population.

MATERIALS AND

METHODS

We analyzed the distribution of allelic and genotypic frequencies of rs3794087 in 202 patients with familial ET and 308 healthy controls using a TaqMan-based quantitative PCR assay.

RESULTS

Genotypic and allelic frequencies of rs3794087 did not differ significantly between patients with ET and controls and were unrelated with the age at onset of tremor or sex.

CONCLUSION

Our study suggests that SLC1A2 rs3794087 is not associated with the risk for developing familial ET in the Spanish population, thus subtracting relevance to SLC1A2 rs3794087 as a risk biomarker for ET.