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Is the WKL1 gene associated with schizophrenia?
American journal of medical genetics. Part B, Neuropsychiatric genetics : the official publication of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics - 15 Feb 2004
Kaganovich M, Peretz A, Ritsner M, Bening Abu-Shach U, Attali B, Navon R
Abstract excerpt
A missense mutation Leu309Met in the WKL1 (MLC1, KIAA0027) gene, mapped to 22q13.3, was reported to co-segregate with periodic catatonic schizophrenia (SCZ) in a single large German pedigree with seven affected individuals (Meyer et al. [2001: Mol Psychiatry 6:302-306]). This report raised the following questions that were dealt with in the present study: does the Leu309Met mutation have a role in SCZ, or only in...
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