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Dopamine D4 receptor variants in Chinese sporadic and familial schizophrenics.
American journal of medical genetics - 25 Jul 1997
Hong C J, Lee Y L, Sim C B, Hwu H G
Abstract excerpt
Variation in the number of tandem repeats of a 48 base pair (bp) unit was found in the gene of the dopamine D4 receptor (DRD4). The number of repetitions of the 48bp unit was shown to influence the binding of clozapine, which suggests that different alleles may function differently in vivo and affect the pathogenesis of schizophrenia. Genotypes of DRD4 polymorphism were analyzed for 47 schizophrenic probands who...
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