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Transporter associated with antigen processing and the chaperone tapasin: are non-classical HLA genes keys to the pathogenesis of schizophrenia?
Medical hypotheses - 1 May 2009
Fellerhoff Barbara, Wank Rudollf
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Schizophrenia is a mind-destructive disease. Family and twin studies have indicated an equal contribution of genetic endowment and environmental factors in the pathogenesis of schizophrenia. Recently Chlamydiaceae species has been identified as a major factor in the pathogenesis of schizophrenia, suggesting defective immune responses of schizophrenic patients against this environmental factor. Immune responses...
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