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DISC1 and DISC2: discovering and dissecting molecular mechanisms underlying psychiatric illness.
Annals of medicine - 1 Jan 2004
Millar J Kirsty, James Rachel, Brandon Nicholas J, Thomson Pippa A
Abstract excerpt
A balanced (1;11)(q42;q14) translocation co-segregates with schizophrenia and major affective disorders in a large Scottish family. The translocation breakpoint on chromosome 1 is located within the Disrupted in Schizophrenia 1 and 2 genes (DISC1 and DISC2). Consequently loss of normal function of these genes is likely to underlie the susceptibility to developing psychiatric disorders that is conferred by...
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