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Failure to confirm the association between the FEZ1 gene and schizophrenia in a Japanese population.
Neuroscience letters - 7 May 2007
Koga Minori, Ishiguro Hiroki, Horiuchi Yasue, Albalushi Talal, Inada Toshiya, Iwata Nakao, Ozaki Norio, Ujike Hiroshi, Muratake Tatsuyuki, Someya Toshiyuki, Arinami Tadao
Abstract excerpt
Fasciculation and elongation of protein zeta-1 (FEZ1) is a binding partner of Disrupted-In-Schizophrenia 1 (DISC1). Because the DISC1 gene is shown to be a causative gene for psychosis in a Scottish family, the FEZ1 gene may well have importance in mental disease. A previous association study that analyzed polymorphisms of the FEZ1 gene in Japanese patients with schizophrenia and control subjects found...
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