The insulin receptor substrate-4 (IRS-4) gene and schizophrenia: no evidence for a main genetic factor, however one report of a single schizophrenia patient with a mutation.

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OBJECTIVES: Since there are clear indications that schizophrenia is a systemic disorder, we sought for a common molecular basis for schizophrenia abnormalities in brain and body. Our hypothesis was that an impaired insulin/ insulin-like growth factor signalling in cells might underlie both struct...

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