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Lack of association between the hKCa3 gene and Japanese schizophrenia patients.
Psychiatric genetics - 1 Dec 2001
Imamura A, Tsujita T, Kayashima T, Oda R, Kikuchi T, Hayashida M, Hamada A, Fujimaru K, Matsumoto S, Hashida A, Nakane Y, Okazaki Y
Abstract excerpt
Several researchers have suggested an association between large numbers of CAG repeats in the hKCa3 gene and schizophrenia. However, these reports remain inconclusive and require further investigation. We tried to replicate these results in 112 Japanese schizophrenia patients and 102 control subjects of highly matched age and sex by applying an allele dichotomization model. No association was found. The overall...
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