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Catechol-O-methyltransferase haplotypes are associated with psychosis in Alzheimer disease.
Molecular psychiatry - 1 Nov 2005
Sweet R A, Devlin B, Pollock B G, Sukonick D L, Kastango K B, Bacanu S-A, Chowdari K V, DeKosky S T, Ferrell R E
Abstract excerpt
Psychotic symptoms in subjects with Alzheimer disease (AD with psychosis, AD+P) define a phenotype characterized by greater cognitive burden than in AD without psychosis. We have proposed that genes of small effect may contribute to the risk for expression of psychosis in multiple disorders, including AD. Recently, sex-differential association of a three-locus haplotype, including a G-->A transition at codon...
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