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The influence on the schizophrenic symptoms by the DRD2Ser/Cys311 and -141C Ins/Del polymorphisms.
Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences - 1 Feb 2002
Himei Akio, Koh Jun, Sakai Jun, Inada Yasushi, Akabame Kazuyo, Yoneda Hiroshi
Abstract excerpt
The hyperactivity of dopaminergic systems is one of the major etiological hypotheses of schizophrenia. The major support for this hypothesis is that effective antipsychotic drugs bind to dopamine receptors and improve acute schizophrenic symptoms. For this reason, we investigated the allelic association between schizophrenia and polymorphisms of the DRD2 genes for the Ser/Cys311 and -141C Ins/Del. The subjects...
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