Article
Failure to find associations of the CA repeat polymorphism in the first intron and the Gly-63/Glu-63 polymorphism of the neurotrophin-3 gene with schizophrenia.
Psychiatric genetics - 1 Jan 1996
Arinami T, Takekoshi K, Itokawa M, Hamaguchi H, Toru M
Abstract excerpt
This study aimed to replicate positive associations between polymorphisms of the neurotrophin-3 gene and schizophrenia. The reported associations, which were the results of searching for mutations in the locus in schizophrenics under the hypothesis of neurodevelopmental etiology of schizophrenia,...
Topics
- Adult
- Age of Onset
- Aged
- Alleles
- Base Sequence
- DNA Mutational Analysis
- Dinucleotide Repeats
- Female
- Humans
- Introns
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Nerve Growth Factors
- Neurotrophin 3
- Point Mutation
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Polymorphism, Genetic