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Genetic basis of schizophrenia: trinucleotide repeats. An update.
Progress in neuro-psychopharmacology & biological psychiatry - 1 Aug 2001
Vaswani M, Kapur S
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1. Recent developments in technologies permit systematic screening of the entire human genome as a strategy for identification of susceptibility genes of small effect that influence risk to complex traits, like schizophrenia (Schz), inflammatory bowel disease, bipolar affective disorder (BPAD) etc. 2. Schizophrenia is known to have a high heritability and a complex inheritance pattern. Several studies provide...
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