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Genetic association of the GDNF alpha-receptor genes with schizophrenia and clozapine response.
Journal of psychiatric research - 1 Aug 2010
Souza Renan P, Romano-Silva Marco A, Lieberman Jeffrey A, Meltzer Herbert Y, MacNeil Lesley T, Culotti Joseph G, Kennedy James L, Wong Albert H C
Abstract excerpt
GDNF (glial-cell-line derived neurotrophic factor) is a potent neurotrophic factor for dopaminergic neurons. Neuropsychiatric diseases and their treatments are associated with alterations in the levels of both GDNF and its receptor family (GDNF family receptor alpha or GFRA). GFRA1, GFRA2 and GFR...
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