Analysis of the association between Apolipoprotein D and schizophrenia.

Abstract excerpt

Schizophrenia is a severe, chronic and common complex debilitating mental illness with a large genetic component. Evidence to date suggests that apolipoprotein D protein may be closely related to schizophrenia. To investigate the role of the APOD gene in the etiology of schizophrenia, we genotyped three genetic polymorphisms (rs7659, rs2280520 and rs4677695) in a case-control study using subjects from the Chinese...