Article
Association study between schizophrenia and dopamine D3 receptor gene polymorphism.
American journal of medical genetics - 26 Jul 1996
Tanaka T, Igarashi S, Onodera O, Tanaka H, Takahashi M, Maeda M, Kameda K, Tsuji S, Ihda S
Abstract excerpt
Crocq et al. [1992: J Med Genet 29:858-860] reported the existence of an association between schizophrenia and homozygosity of a BalI polymorphism in the first exon of the dopamine D3 receptor (DRD3) gene. In response to this report, further studies were conducted; however, these studies yielded...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Age of Onset
- Aged
- Alleles
- Deoxyribonucleases, Type II Site-Specific
- Female
- Gene Frequency
- Genotype
- Humans
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Polymorphism, Genetic
- Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
- Receptors, Dopamine D2
- Receptors, Dopamine D3
- Schizophrenia