Article
Psychotic symptoms in Alzheimer's disease are not influenced by polymorphic variation at the dopamine receptor DRD3 gene.
Neuroscience letters - 16 Sept 2004
Craig David, Hart Dominic J, Carson Robyn, McIlroy Stephen P, Passmore A Peter
Abstract excerpt
It has been suggested that genetic influences unmasked during neurodevelopment to produce schizophrenia may appear throughout neurodegeneration to produce AD plus psychosis. Risk of schizophrenia and psychosis in Alzheimer's disease (AD) has been linked to polymorphic variation at the dopamine receptor DRD3 gene implying similar causative mechanisms. We tested this association in a large cohort of Alzheimer's...
Topics
- Aged
- Alleles
- Alzheimer Disease
- Cohort Studies
- DNA
- Delusions
- Female
- Genotype
- Hallucinations
- Humans
- Logistic Models
- Male
