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Family-based association study of synapsin II and schizophrenia.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Nov 2004
Chen Qi, He Guang, Qin Wei, Chen Qing-ying, Zhao Xin-zhi, Duan Shi-wei, Liu Xin-min, Feng Guo-yin, Xu Yi-feng, St Clair David, Li Min, Wang Jin-huan, Xing Yang-ling, Shi Jian-guo, He Lin
Abstract excerpt
Synapsin II has been proposed as a candidate gene for vulnerability to schizophrenia on the basis of its function and its location in a region of the genome implicated by linkage studies in families with schizophrenia. We recently reported positive association of synapsin II with schizophrenia in a case-control study (Chen et al. 2004). However, since case-control analyses can generate false-positive results in...
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