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Phenylalanine hydroxylase gene in psychiatric patients: screening and functional assay of mutations.
Biological psychiatry - 15 Mar 2003
Richardson Mary Ann, Read Laura L, Clelland James D, Chao Helen M, Reilly Margaret A, Romstad Anne, Suckow Raymond F
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BACKGROUND: Reports relating phenylalanine kinetics and metabolism to psychiatric disorders led us to undertake the comprehensive screening of the phenylalanine hydroxylase (PAH) coding region and functional testing of discovered mutations in a sample of psychiatric patients and healthy control subjects. METHODS: Genomic DNA from psychiatric patients and control subjects was assayed for sequence variants in all...
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