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Association of estrogen receptor genes and schizophrenia: a preliminary study.
Progress in neuro-psychopharmacology & biological psychiatry - 10 Jan 2012
Min Jung-Ah, Kim Jung Jin, Pae Chi-Un, Kim Kyung Hee, Lee Chang-Uk, Lee Chul, Paik In-Ho
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Gender differences in various clinical features of schizophrenia have been noted and estrogen has been regarded to play important roles. A few previous studies on the association between estrogen receptor (ER) genotypes and schizophrenia focused mainly on ER α gene but failed to report consistent results. The present study was designed to analyze the differences in the frequencies of both ERα and ERβ gene...
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