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Evidence of epistasis between the catechol-O-methyltransferase and aldehyde dehydrogenase 3B1 genes in paranoid schizophrenia.
Biological psychiatry - 15 Jun 2009
Wang Yan, Hu Ying, Fang Yue, Zhang Kerang, Yang Hong, Ma Jintang, Xu Qi, Shen Yan
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BACKGROUND: Schizophrenia is a common yet severe psychiatric condition characterized by complex genetic mechanism and diverse clinical presentations. Our previous study indicated that the combined effect of two intronic single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), which are located in the catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) and aldehyde dehydrogenase 3B1 (ALDH3B1) genes, respectively, conferred genetic risk to...
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