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Dopamine transporter gene (DAT1) VNTR polymorphism in major psychiatric disorders: family-based association study in the Bulgarian population.
Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica - 1 May 2002
Georgieva L, Dimitrova A, Nikolov I, Koleva S, Tsvetkova R, Owen M J, Toncheva D, Kirov G
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: A 40-bp variable number tandem repeat in the 3'-UTR of dopamine transporter gene (DAT1) has been examined for association with major psychiatric disorders in several case-control studies. No significant results have been found. We used a new collection of parent-offspring trios to test for association with schizophrenia (SZ), bipolar 1 disorder (BPI) and schizoaffective (SA) disorder. METHOD: We...
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