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Is there an association between the COMT gene and P300 endophenotypes?
European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists - 1 Jan 2006
Bramon E, Dempster E, Frangou S, McDonald C, Schoenberg P, MacCabe J H, Walshe M, Sham P, Collier D, Murray R M
Abstract excerpt
P300 wave anomalies correlate with genetic risk for schizophrenia and constitute a plausible endophenotype for the disease. The COMT gene is thought to influence cognitive performance and to be a susceptibility gene for schizophrenia. Unlike two previous studies, we found no significant influence of the COMT gene on P300 amplitude or latency in 189 individuals examined. The well-supported role of the COMT gene...
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