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Rare genetic variants in CX3CR1 and their contribution to the increased risk of schizophrenia and autism spectrum disorders.
Translational psychiatry - 1 Aug 2017
Ishizuka K, Fujita Y, Kawabata T, Kimura H, Iwayama Y, Inada T, Okahisa Y, Egawa J, Usami M, Kushima I, Uno Y, Okada T, Ikeda M, Aleksic B, Mori D, Someya To, Yoshikawa T, Iwata N, Nakamura H, Yamashita T, Ozaki N
Abstract excerpt
CX3CR1, a G protein-coupled receptor solely expressed by microglia in the brain, has been repeatedly reported to be associated with neurodevelopmental disorders including schizophrenia (SCZ) and autism spectrum disorders (ASD) in transcriptomic and animal studies but not in genetic studies. To address the impacts of variants in CX3CR1 on neurodevelopmental disorders, we conducted coding exon-targeted resequencing...
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