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Schizophrenia and the ciliary neurotrophic factor (CNTF) gene: no evidence for association.
Psychiatry research - 16 Jun 1997
Sakai T, Sasaki T, Tatsumi M, Kunugi H, Hattori M, Nanko S
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The ciliary neurotrophic factor (CNTF) gene is considered a candidate gene for schizophrenia, in view of the neurodevelopmental hypothesis of the disorder. Recently, controversial results regarding an association between psychiatric disorders; mainly schizophrenia, and a null mutation of the CNTF gene were reported. We investigated this mutation in 138 Japanese patients with schizophrenia and 140 healthy control...
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