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Association studies of catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) gene with schizophrenia and response to antipsychotic treatment.
Pharmacogenomics - 1 Mar 2009
Gupta Meenal, Bhatnagar Pallav, Grover Sandeep, Kaur Harpreet, Baghel Ruchi, Bhasin Yasha, Chauhan Chitra, Verma Binuja, Manduva Vallikiran, Mukherjee Odity, Purushottam Meera, Sharma Abhay, Jain Sanjeev, Brahmachari Samir K, Kukreti Ritushree
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AIM: We investigated the catechol-O-methyltrasferase (COMT) gene, which is a strong functional and positional candidate gene for schizophrenia and therapeutic response to antipsychotic medication. MATERIALS & METHODS: Single-locus as well as detailed haplotype-based association analysis of the COMT gene with schizophrenia and antipsychotic treatment response was carried out using seven COMT polymorphisms in 398...
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