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DEGS2 polymorphism associated with cognition in schizophrenia is associated with gene expression in brain.
Translational psychiatry - 14 Apr 2015
Ohi K, Ursini G, Li M, Shin J H, Ye T, Chen Q, Tao R, Kleinman J E, Hyde T M, Hashimoto R, Weinberger D R
Abstract excerpt
A genome-wide association study of cognitive deficits in patients with schizophrenia in Japan found association with a missense genetic variant (rs7157599, Asn8Ser) in the delta(4)-desaturase, sphingolipid 2 (DEGS2) gene. A replication analysis using Caucasian samples showed a directionally consistent trend for cognitive association of a proxy single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), rs3783332. Although the DEGS2...
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