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No evidence to support the association of the potassium channel gene hSKCa3 CAG repeat with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder in the Irish population.
Molecular psychiatry - 1 Sept 1999
Hawi Z, Mynett-Johnson L, Murphy V, Straub R E, Kendler K S, Walsh D, McKeon P, Gill M
Abstract excerpt
Anticipation has attracted much interest and has been demonstrated in several neuropsychiatric disorders. For some disorders, this phenomenon has been found to correlate with the repeat number in large and unstable repeats (CAG/CTG). In addition, case control studies have suggested an increase in triplet repeat size in the psychoses. Recently, it was reported that the larger alleles (longer than 19 repeats) of...
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