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Common variants of IRF3 conferring risk of schizophrenia.
Journal of psychiatric research - 1 May 2015
Li Xiao, Zhang Wen, Lencz Todd, Darvasi Ariel, Alkelai Anna, Lerer Bernard, Jiang Hong-Yan, Zhang Deng-feng, Yu Li, Xu Xiu-Feng, Li Ming, Yao Yong-Gang
Abstract excerpt
Schizophrenia is a brain disorder with high heritability. Recent studies have implicated genes involved in the immune response pathway in the pathogenesis of schizophrenia. Interferon regulatory factor 3 (IRF3), a virus-immune-related gene, activates the transcription of several interferon-induced genes, and functionally interacts with several schizophrenia susceptibility genes. To test whether IRF3 is a...
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