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Molecular genetic studies of schizophrenia: challenges and insights.
Neuroscience research - 1 Aug 2002
Kato Chieko, Petronis Arturas, Okazaki Yuji, Tochigi Mamoru, Umekage Tadashi, Sasaki Tsukasa
Abstract excerpt
Schizophrenia (SCZ) is a mental disease that affects approximately 1% of the population with life-long devastating consequences. Based on evidence for a major contribution of genetic factors, a decade of extensive efforts has been dedicated to the search of DNA sequence variations that increase the risk to SCZ. Search for genes in rare multiplex SCZ families with a large number of affected individuals and...
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