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Interactions of human truncated DISC1 proteins: implications for schizophrenia.
Translational psychiatry - 16 Aug 2011
Newburn E N, Hyde T M, Ye T, Morita Y, Weinberger D R, Kleinman J E, Lipska B K
Abstract excerpt
Numerous genetic linkage and association reports have implicated the Disrupted-in-Schizophrenia (DISC1) gene in psychiatric illness. The Scottish family translocation, predicted to encode a C-terminus-truncated protein, suggests involvement of short isoforms in the pathophysiology of mental disorders. We recently reported complex alternative splicing patterns for the DISC1 gene and found that short isoforms are...
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