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Mutation screening of SCN2A in schizophrenia and identification of a novel loss-of-function mutation.
Psychiatric genetics - 1 Apr 2016
Carroll Liam S, Woolf Rebecca, Ibrahim Yousef, Williams Hywel J, Dwyer Sarah, Walters James, Kirov George, O'Donovan Michael C, Owen Michael J
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OBJECTIVES: There is a growing body of evidence suggesting a shared genetic susceptibility between many neuropsychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia, autism, intellectual disability (ID) and epilepsy. The sodium channel, voltage-gated type II α subunit gene SCN2A has been shown to exhibit loss-of-function (LoF) mutations in individuals with seizure disorders, ID, autism and schizophrenia. The role of LoF...
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