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Genetic polymorphism in the DNA repair gene XRCC1 and susceptibility to schizophrenia.
Psychiatry research - 15 Jan 2008
Saadat Mostafa, Pakyari Najmeh, Farrashbandi Hassan
Abstract excerpt
The X-ray repair cross-complementation group 1 (XRCC1) protein plays an important role in base excision repair. A high level of XRCC1 mRNA and/or protein has been found in rat and baboon brains. An exon 10 variant at codon 399 of XRCC1 leads to an Arg to Gln amino acid change. The 399Gln allele is associated with an increased risk of several types of cancers, increased DNA adducts and chromosomal changes;...
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