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Genetic associations between delusional disorder and paranoid schizophrenia: A novel etiologic approach.
Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie - 1 May 2006
Debnath Monojit, Das Sujit K, Bera Nirmal K, Nayak Chitta R, Chaudhuri Tapas K
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OBJECTIVES: Genetic associations between delusional disorder and paranoid schizophrenia are not well understood, although involvement of biological factors has been suspected. We investigated the incidence of human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class I alleles in patients with delusional disorder and paranoid schizophrenia, first, to explore a possible immunogenetic etiology of these paranoid disorders and, second, to...
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