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hSKCa3: a candidate gene for schizophrenia?
Psychiatric genetics - 1 Jun 1999
Meissner B, Purmann S, Schürmann M, Zühlke C, Lencer R, Arolt V, Müller-Myhsok B, Morris-Rosendahl D J, Schwinger E
Abstract excerpt
Recently, case-control studies have suggested an association between the polymorphic CAG repeat in the neuronal potassium channel gene hSKCa3 and an increased susceptibility to schizophrenia, with larger repeats being overrepresented in schizophrenic patients. Therefore, we have examined the CAG repeat polymorphism in hSKCa3 and four adjacent microsatellite markers in 12 multiplex schizophrenia families. On...
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