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SINE-R.C2 (a Homo sapiens specific retroposon) is homologous to CDNA from postmortem brain in schizophrenia and to two loci in the Xq21.3/Yp block linked to handedness and psychosis.
American journal of medical genetics - 15 Oct 1999
Kim H S, Wadekar R V, Takenaka O, Winstanley C, Mitsunaga F, Kageyama T, Hyun B H, Crow T J
Abstract excerpt
We investigated the retroviral/retroposon hypothesis of schizophrenia by generating sequences with PCR primers based on a retroviral sequence recovered by Yee et al. [1998: Schizophr Res 29:92] from a cDNA library from postmortem brain tissue from an individual with psychosis in a genomic region (Xq21.3) that has been tentatively linked to schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder by Laval et al. [1998: Am. J....
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