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No association between schizophrenia and polymorphisms in COMT in two large samples.
The American journal of psychiatry - 1 Sept 2005
Williams Hywel J, Glaser Beate, Williams Nigel M, Norton Nadine, Zammit Stanley, MacGregor Stuart, Kirov George K, Owen Michael J, O'Donovan Michael C
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: A valine/methionine polymorphism in the catechol O-methyltransferase (COMT) gene has been proposed to influence susceptibility to schizophrenia, as has a COMT haplotype in Ashkenazi Jewish and Irish subjects. The authors examined these hypotheses. METHOD: They reviewed data from more than 2,800 individuals, including almost 1,200 with schizophrenia, from case-control and family-based European...
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