Article
No association between alleles or genotypes at the dopamine transporter gene and schizophrenia.
Psychiatry research - 1 Apr 1994
Li T, Yang L, Wiese C, Xu C T, Zeng Z, Giros B, Caron M G, Moises H W, Liu X
Abstract excerpt
The dopamine transporter gene (DAT1) is an important candidate gene for schizophrenia. A 40-bp VNTR (variable number of tandem repeats) polymorphism of DAT1 has been typed in 105 schizophrenic patients and 98 normal control subjects from Sichuan (China). Compared with allele frequencies for Caucasians reported in the literature, the Chinese population investigated showed a reduced frequency of the 9-copy allele...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Alleles
- Carrier Proteins
- China
- Dopamine Plasma Membrane Transport Proteins
- Female
- Genotype
- Humans
- Male
- Membrane Glycoproteins
- Membrane Transport Proteins