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Schizophrenia-associated HapICE haplotype is associated with increased NRG1 type III expression and high nucleotide diversity.
Translational psychiatry - 17 Apr 2012
Weickert C S, Tiwari Y, Schofield P R, Mowry B J, Fullerton J M
Abstract excerpt
Excitement and controversy have followed neuregulin (NRG1) since its discovery as a putative schizophrenia susceptibility gene; however, the mechanism of action of the associated risk haplotype (HapICE) has not been identified, and specific genetic variations, which may increase risk to schizophrenia have remained elusive. Using a postmortem brain cohort from 37 schizophrenia cases and 37 controls, we resequenced...
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