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Novel polymorphisms of the human cholecystokinin A receptor gene: an association analysis with schizophrenia.
American journal of medical genetics - 3 Apr 2000
Tachikawa H, Harada S, Kawanishi Y, Okubo T, Shiraishi H
Abstract excerpt
The cholecystokinin A receptor (CCK-AR) modulates CCK-stimulated dopamine release in the posterior nucleus accumbens, and its gene is mapped to 4p15.2-15.1 with the dopamine receptor 5 (DR5) gene. We speculated that alterations in the CCK-AR lead to an increase in dopamine release, which may in turn constitute a predisposition in schizophrenia. We investigated genetic variations in the promoter region and the...
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