In this preliminary study, 16 psychotropic-naïve pediatric OCD patients were studied using magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) and genotyped for six candidate polymorphisms in two glutamate system genes. A significant association was identified between the rs1019385 polymorphism of glutamate receptor, ionotropic, N-methyl-d-aspartate 2B (GRIN2B) and decreased anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) glutamatergic concentration (Glx, p=0.02) but not with occipital Glx. These results suggest that GRIN2B may be associated with Glx in ACC, a region consistently implicated in OCD.
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