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Negative association of schizophrenia with HLA DQB1*0602: evidence from a second African-American cohort.
Schizophrenia research - 17 Jan 1997
Nimgaonkar V L, Rudert W A, Zhang X, Trucco M, Ganguli R
Abstract excerpt
The authors attempted a replication of an earlier study of African-Americans, in which they detected a negative association of schizophrenia with HLA DQB1*0602. Patients with schizophrenia (n = 75, DSM-III-R criteria) and screened adult controls of African-American ethnicity (n = 66) were genotyped with respect to HLA DQB1*0602 using a combination of two polymerase chain reaction (PCR) based assays: amplification...
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