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A Schizophrenia-Linked KALRN Coding Variant Alters Neuron Morphology, Protein Function, and Transcript Stability.
Biological psychiatry - 15 Mar 2018
Russell Theron A, Grubisha Melanie J, Remmers Christine L, Kang Seok Kyu, Forrest Marc P, Smith Katharine R, Kopeikina Katherine J, Gao Ruoqi, Sweet Robert A, Penzes Peter
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BACKGROUND: Large-scale genetic studies have revealed that rare sequence variants, including single nucleotide variants (SNVs), in glutamatergic synaptic genes are enriched in schizophrenia patients. However, the majority are too rare to show any association with disease and have not been examined functionally. One such SNV, KALRN-P2255T, displays a penetrance that greatly exceeds that of previously identified...
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