No association of the Ser/Cys311 DRD2 molecular variant with schizophrenia using a classical case control study and the haplotype relative risk.

doi:10.1016/S0920-9964(97)00013-3

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No association of the Ser/Cys311 DRD2 molecular variant with schizophrenia using a classical case control study and the haplotype relative risk.

Schizophrenia research - 24 May 1997

Verga M, Macciardi F, Pedrini S, Cohen S, Smeraldi E

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Arinami et al. (1994) reported an association between the Ser311/Cys311 variant of the DRD2 gene and schizophrenia in a Japanese population. We did not find statistically significant differences in the distribution of the allele frequencies between schizophrenics (103) and controls (97) in a case...

Topics

Age of Onset
Alleles
DNA
Female
Genotype
Haplotypes
Humans
Male
Receptors, Dopamine D2
Schizophrenia

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