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Apolipoprotein E epsilon3 allele is not a risk factor of schizophrenia: a study of 314 Japanese patients.
Neuropsychobiology - 1 Jan 2000
Kimura T, Shono M, Yokota S, Igata-Yi R, Takamatsu J, Miyakawa T
Abstract excerpt
The association between apolipoprotein E (ApoE) alleles and schizophrenia has remained controversial. A recent report claiming that ApoE epsilon3 Taiwan Chinese carriers have an increased risk of schizophrenia prompted us to investigate the allele frequency in a large group of Japanese schizophrenic patients. Serum samples were obtained from 314 schizophrenic patients and 188 controls in Japan and examined using...
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