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Dopamine D2 receptor gene -141C Insertion/Deletion polymorphism in Turkish schizophrenic patients.
Molecular biology reports - 1 Feb 2011
Kurt Hulyam, Dikmen Miris, Basaran Ayşe, Yenilmez Cinar, Ozdemir Figen, Degirmenci Irfan, Gunes Hasan Veysi, Kucuk Meral Urhan, Mutlu Fezan
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Schizophrenia is a chronic and neuropsychiatric disease that affects about 0.5-1% of the world's population. An increase in dopamine and dopamine D2 receptor (DRD2) gene products has been well described in schizophrenic patients. Several groups have studied the relationship between dopaminergic hyperactivity and cellular communications have obtained discordant results. Studies searching for the relationship...
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