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Analysis of association between common variants in the SLCO6A1 gene with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder in the Han Chinese population.
The world journal of biological psychiatry : the official journal of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry - 1 Jan 2016
Khan Raja Amjad Waheed, Chen Jianhua, Wang Meng, Wen Zujia, Shen Jiawei, Song Zhijian, Li Zhiqiang, Wang Qingzhong, Li Wenjin, Xu Yifeng, Ji Weidong, Shi Yongyong
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVES: The SLCO6A1 gene belongs to a superfamily of genes which is known to be a solute carrier family of OATPs (SLCO). The SLCO6A1 gene encodes OATP6A1 protein in humans. A previous genome-wide association study (GWAS) of schizophrenia conducted in the Swedish population demonstrated a significant association of rs6878284, which is located in the SLCO6A1 gene, with schizophrenia. To further investigate...
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