Neurotrophin-3 gene polymorphisms and schizophrenia: no evidence for linkage or association.

doi:10.1097/00041444-199624000-00002

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Neurotrophin-3 gene polymorphisms and schizophrenia: no evidence for linkage or association.

Psychiatric genetics - 1 Jan 1996

Gill M, Hawi Z, O'Neill F A, Walsh D, Straub R E, Kendler K S

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It has been suggested on the basis of neuropathological and epidemiological evidence that schizophrenia is, at least in part, a neurodevelopmental illness. Some patients show abnormalities in cell position in the medial temporal lobes of their brains. Neurotrophin-3 is one of many proteins essent...

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Alleles
Disease Susceptibility
Female
Genes, Dominant
Genes, Recessive
Genetic Linkage
Humans
Lod Score
Male
Nerve Growth Factors
Neurotrophin 3
Pedigree
Polymorphism, Genetic
Racial Groups
Schizophrenia

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