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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 schizophrenic patients compared with controls, from two independent centres. We have found no evidence of such an excess in a...
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