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No association of tumor necrosis factor alpha gene polymorphisms with schizophrenia or response to clozapine.
Schizophrenia research - 1 Dec 2003
Tsai Shih-Jen, Hong Chen-Jee, Yu Younger W-Y, Lin Ching-Hua, Liu Ling-Ling
Abstract excerpt
Tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha), a potent immunomodulator and proinflammatory cytokine, has been implicated in schizophrenia pathogenesis and clozapine response. Two studies have established an association between schizophrenia and the TNF-alpha gene -308G/A polymorphism; however, both increased and decreased -308A allele frequency have been reported in two analogous investigations. The present study...
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