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Analysis of clozapine response and polymorphisms of the dopamine D4 receptor gene (DRD4) in schizophrenic patients.
American journal of medical genetics - 18 Dec 1995
Shaikh S, Collier D A, Sham P, Pilowsky L, Sharma T, Lin L K, Crocq M A, Gill M, Kerwin R
Abstract excerpt
We have examined the hypothesis that a variable number of tandem repeats in the third cytoplasmic loop of the dopamine D4 receptor influences clinical response to clozapine using a sample of 189 schizophrenic patients. Alleles of the 48-bp repeat, which range from two to ten copies in the normal human population, were analysed by the polymerase chain reaction using genomic DNA as template. Association between...
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