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A nonsense mutation in the synaptogyrin 1 gene in a family with schizophrenia.
Biological psychiatry - 15 Jan 2004
Verma Ranjana, Chauhan Chitra, Saleem Quasar, Gandhi Charu, Jain Sanjeev, Brahmachari Samir K
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BACKGROUND: Chromosome 22q is one of the important regions repeatedly being implicated in schizophrenia. In this region, our group previously reported an association of a CAG repeat marker (22CH3) with schizophrenia in the Indian population. Because Synaptogyrin 1 (SYNGR1), associated with presynaptic vesicles in neuronal cells, lies within 1 million base pairs of this marker, it is a potential candidate gene for...
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