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Female specific association between NNMT gene and schizophrenia in a Han Chinese population.
International journal of medical sciences - 1 Jan 2014
Wang Guo-xia, Zhang Yong, Lv Zhuang-wei, Sun Mao, Wu Dan, Chen Xin-yu, Wu Yuan-ming
Abstract excerpt
Accumulating evidence has shown that alterations in one carbon metabolism might play an important role in the pathogenesis of schizophrenia (SZ). Nicotinamide-N-methyltransferase (NNMT) is one of the key enzymes of one-carbon metabolism. To examine whether NNMT gene was associated with SZ in Han Chinese population, we selected seven single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in NNMT gene, and investigated its...
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