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Preliminary evidence for association of genome-wide significant DRD2 schizophrenia risk variant with clozapine response.
Pharmacogenomics - 1 Jan 2016
Huang Eric, Maciukiewicz Malgorzata, Zai Clement C, Tiwari Arun K, Li Jiang, Potkin Steven G, Lieberman Jeffrey A, Meltzer Herbert Y, Müller Daniel J, Kennedy James L
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AIM: The recent Psychiatric Genomics Consortium genome-wide association study identified an SNP, rs2514218, located 47kb upstream of the DRD2 gene to be associated with risk for schizophrenia (p = 2.75e-11). Since all antipsychotics bind to dopamine D2 receptors, we examined rs2514218 in relation to response to antipsychotic treatment. PATIENTS & METHODS: We investigated the SNP in relation to treatment response...
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