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Identification of rare mutations of synaptogyrin 1 gene in patients with schizophrenia.
Journal of psychiatric research - 1 Dec 2007
Cheng Min-Chih, Chen Chia-Hsiang
Abstract excerpt
Synaptogyrin 1 gene (SYNGR1) is considered as a positional candidate gene for schizophrenia because of its location at chromosome 22q13, a region linked to schizophrenia, and its reduced expression in postmortem brain of patients with schizophrenia. Additionally, genetic studies also reported association of SYNGR1 is with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in southern India. Prompted by these findings, we were...
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