Article
The dopamine D3 receptor gene: no association with bipolar affective disorder.
Journal of medical genetics - 1 Apr 1993
Shaikh S, Ball D, Craddock N, Castle D, Hunt N, Mant R, Owen M, Collier D, Gill M
Abstract excerpt
Bipolar affective disorder and schizophrenia share many clinical and genetic characteristics, and are thought by some to be different expressions of the same underlying disorder. A recent study showed an excess of homozygosity at a BalI polymorphism in the dopamine D3 receptor gene in schizophren...
Topics
- Alleles
- Bipolar Disorder
- Gene Frequency
- Genotype
- Humans
- Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
- Receptors, Dopamine
- Receptors, Dopamine D2
- Receptors, Dopamine D3
- Schizophrenia
