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Is MYO9B the missing link between schizophrenia and celiac disease?
American journal of medical genetics. Part B, Neuropsychiatric genetics : the official publication of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics - 5 Apr 2008
Jungerius Bart J, Bakker Steven C, Monsuur Alienke J, Sinke Richard J, Kahn Rene S, Wijmenga Cisca
Abstract excerpt
There has long been discussion on the correlation between schizophrenia and autoimmune diseases (especially celiac disease), which makes the recently discovered celiac disease risk factor, MYO9B, an attractive functional and positional candidate gene for schizophrenia. To test this hypothesis we compared allele frequencies of three MYO9B tag SNPs in 315 schizophrenia cases and 1,624 healthy controls in a genetic...
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