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The catechol-O-methyl-transferase gene in tardive dyskinesia.
The world journal of biological psychiatry : the official journal of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry - 1 Sept 2010
Zai Clement C, Tiwari Arun K, Müller Daniel J, De Luca Vincenzo, Shinkai Takahiro, Shaikh Sajid, Ni Xingqun, Sibony David, Voineskos Aristotle N, Meltzer Herbert Y, Lieberman Jeffrey A, Potkin Steven G, Remington Gary, Kennedy James L
Abstract excerpt
UNLABELLED: Tardive dyskinesia (TD) is a severe and potentially irreversible motor side effect linked to long-term antipsychotic exposure. Changes in dopamine neurotransmission have been implicated in the etiology of TD, and catechol-O-methyl-transferase (COMT) is an enzyme that metabolizes dopamine. OBJECTIVES: We investigated five single-nucleotide polymorphisms in addition to the functional Val158Met variant...
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