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FADS1 modulates metabolic syndrome in schizophrenia patients receiving olanzapine monotherapy.
Asian journal of psychiatry - 1 Dec 2020
Chen Jianmin, Lu Weihong, Zhang Yi, Fan Weixing, Tang Wei, Zhang Chen
Abstract excerpt
In this study, we hypothesized that fatty acid desaturase-1 (FADS1) and fatty acid desaturase-2 (FADS2) may mediate metabolic syndrome (MetS) in patients receiving olanzapine monotherapy. 216 schizophrenia patients were recruited. There is a significant difference between the patients with or without MetS in term of the expression of FADS1 mRNA (F = 4.58, P = 0.03), but not FADS2 mRNA (F = 1.29, P = 0.26). We...
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