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IGF1, growth pathway polymorphisms and schizophrenia: a pooling study.
American journal of medical genetics. Part B, Neuropsychiatric genetics : the official publication of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics - 5 Jan 2007
Gunnell D, Lewis S, Wilkinson J, Georgieva L, Davey G Smith, Day I N M, Holly J M P, O'Donovan M C, Owen M J, Kirov G, Zammit S
Abstract excerpt
It has been hypothesized that insulin-like growth factors (IGFs) and components of the growth-hormone (GH)-IGF axis may underlie reported associations of poor fetal and childhood growth with schizophrenia. We have investigated the association of schizophrenia with 16 SNPs spanning the IGF1 gene with an inter-marker distance of approximately 2-3 kb. We also examined associations with four common functional...
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