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Repeat length variation in the dopamine D4 receptor gene shows no evidence of association with schizophrenia.
American journal of medical genetics - 15 Sept 1994
Daniels J, Williams J, Mant R, Asherson P, McGuffin P, Owen M J
Abstract excerpt
The D4 receptor has been shown to exist in several allelic forms (Van Tol et al., Nature 358:149-152, 1992) reflecting variation in the number of 48 base-pair sequence repeats in the putative cytoplasmic loop. We report a comparison of repeat length variation between schizophrenic patients and controls. Our sample of 106 unrelated schizophrenic cases and 119 controls showed no significant differences in allele or...
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