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Identification of PIK3C3 promoter variant associated with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.
Biological psychiatry - 15 May 2004
Stopkova Pavla, Saito Takuya, Papolos Demitri F, Vevera Jan, Paclt Ivo, Zukov Ilja, Bersson Yonina B, Margolis Benjamin A, Strous Rael D, Lachman Herbert M
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BACKGROUND: Genes involved in phosphoinositide (PI) lipid metabolism are excellent candidates to consider in the pathogenesis of bipolar disorder (BD) and schizophrenia (SZ). One is PIK3C3, a member of the phosphatidylinositide 3-kinase family that maps closely to markers on 18q linked to both BD and SZ in a few studies. METHODS: The promoter region of PIK3C3 was analyzed for mutations by single-strand...
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