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Analysis of mitochondrial DNA variants in Japanese patients with schizophrenia.
Mitochondrion - 1 Nov 2009
Ueno Hitomi, Nishigaki Yutaka, Kong Qing-Peng, Fuku Noriyuki, Kojima Shuji, Iwata Nakao, Ozaki Norio, Tanaka Masashi
Abstract excerpt
To test the hypothesis that mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) variants contribute to the susceptibility to schizophrenia, we sequenced the entire mtDNAs from 93 Japanese schizophrenic patients. Three non-synonymous homoplasmic variants in subunit six of the ATP synthase (MT-ATP6) gene that were detected only in patients but not in controls were suggested to be slightly deleterious, because (1) their original amino acid...
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