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Disruption of exploratory and habituation behavior in mice with mutation of DISC1: an ethologically based analysis.
Journal of neuroscience research - 1 Jul 2012
Walsh J, Desbonnet L, Clarke N, Waddington J L, O'Tuathaigh C M P
Abstract excerpt
Disrupted-in-schizophrenia-1 (DISC1) is a gene that has been functionally linked with neurodevelopmental processes and structural plasticity in the brain. Clinical genetic investigations have implicated DISC1 as a genetic risk factor for schizophrenia and related psychoses. Studies using mutant mouse models of DISC1 gene function have demonstrated schizophrenia-related anatomical and behavioral endophenotypes. In...
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