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Relationship between adverse effects of antipsychotic treatment and dopamine D(2) receptor polymorphisms in patients with schizophrenia.
Molecular psychiatry - 1 Jan 2002
Kaiser R, Tremblay P-B, Klufmöller F, Roots I, Brockmöller J
Abstract excerpt
Extrapyramidal adverse symptoms (EPS) represent a major type of adverse events in treatment with typical antipsychotic drugs which share high affinity to the dopamine D(2) receptor (DRD2). Genetic variants of this receptor may modulate the therapeutic response and the severity of adverse symptoms of antipsychotics. We analyzed nine known polymorphisms of the DRD2 in 665 schizophrenic patients with European...
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