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Association of NPAS3 exonic variation with schizophrenia.
Schizophrenia research - 1 Jul 2010
Macintyre Georgina, Alford Tyler, Xiong Lan, Rouleau Guy A, Tibbo Philip G, Cox Diane W
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: We previously identified the neuronal PAS3 (NPAS3) gene as a candidate gene for schizophrenia. A mother and daughter, both with schizophrenia, were carriers of a translocation, t(9;14)(q34;q13), that disrupts the NPAS3 gene. The gene is located at 14q13, a region implicated in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in various linkage studies. NPAS3 belongs to the basic helix-loop-helix Per-Arnt-Sim...
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