ReviewCureus2021
Effect of Catechol-O-Methyltransferase Genotype Polymorphism on Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders: Progressing Towards Personalized Medicine.
Review in Cureus, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
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Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
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Who cites it
8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 16 citations in OpenAlex.
- Neurotransmission-related gene expression in the frontal pole is altered in subjects with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.Translational psychiatry · 2023Pooled it
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- Personalized nutrition and precision medicine in perimenopausal women: A minireview of genetic polymorphisms COMT, FUT2, and MTHFR.Clinics (Sao Paulo, Brazil) · 2025Review
- Recent advances in potential enzymes and their therapeutic inhibitors for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease.Heliyon · 2024Review
- Exploring the underlying correlation between microbiota, immune system, hormones, and inflammation with breast cancer and the role of probiotics, prebiotics and postbiotics.Archives of microbiology · 2024Review
- Association Between the rs4680 Polymorphism of the COMT Gene and Personality Traits among Combat Sports Athletes.Journal of human kinetics · 2023Article
- The Role of Pharmacogenetics in Personalizing the Antidepressant and Anxiolytic Therapy.Genes · 2023Review
Corrections and comments
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Authors and funding
9 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
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Abstract
Different polymorphisms of the catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) gene affect the COMT enzyme activity. The COMT enzyme plays a major role in the pathophysiology of various neurological and psychiatric disorders. This review article aims to discuss what recent research has discovered about the association of COMT genotype polymorphism with neurological and psychiatric disorders and the scope for the knowledge to be applied for advancement in therapeutics. We searched PubMed and Google Scholar databases and found 1656 articles. We included observational studies, clinical trials, and meta-analyses in the English language published between 2019 and 2021. We screened the articles based on the title and the abstract and found 26 relevant articles. Diseases or conditions studied primarily were schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, substance use, and depression. This article highlights how genetics influences the susceptibility of an individual to neurological and psychiatric diseases and the variations in the specific symptoms of those diseases. The review showed that the variability in individual response to therapeutic interventions stems from the gene level. This knowledge can contribute towards the dawn of a new era of personalized medicine.
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