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Stargazin involvement with bipolar disorder and response to lithium treatment.
Pharmacogenetics and genomics - 1 May 2008
Silberberg Gilad, Levit Anat, Collier David, St Clair David, Munro Janet, Kerwin Robert W, Tondo Leonardo, Floris Gianfranco, Breen Gerome, Navon Ruth
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVES: Multiple reports have implicated chromosomal region 22q13.1 in both schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. The calcium channel gamma-2 subunit gene (cacng2, Stargazin) located on 22q13.1 was recently reported to be associated with schizophrenia. We aimed to examine the expression levels of Stargazin in post-mortem brain samples of patients with schizophrenia, patients with bipolar disorder (BPD) and...
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