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Association study of energy homeostasis genes and antipsychotic-induced weight gain in patients with schizophrenia.
Pharmacopsychiatry - 1 Jan 2011
Jassim G, Fernø J, Theisen F M, Haberhausen M, Christoforou A, Håvik B, Gebhardt S, Remschmidt H, Mehler-Wex C, Hebebrand J, Lehellard S, Steen V M
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INTRODUCTION: Marked inter-individual variation has been observed with respect to the risk of weight gain and related metabolic disturbances during antipsychotic treatment, which in part could be explained by heritability. Such adverse effects have been proposed to occur through drug-induced mechanisms involving both the central nervous system and different peripheral tissues. METHODS: We genotyped tagSNPs in...
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