Article
Lack of association between schizophrenia and a polymorphism close to the cytosolic phospholipase A2 gene.
Psychiatric genetics - 1 Jan 1997
Price S A, Fox H, St Clair D, Shaw D J
Abstract excerpt
Biochemical studies have shown that a proportion of schizophrenics have an abnormal fatty acid composition in their red blood-cell membrane phospholipids and it has been suggested that this might be due to altered levels of the enzyme phospholipase A2 (PLA2). A recent report indicated that there...
Topics
- Alleles
- Cytosol
- DNA
- Female
- Humans
- Male
- Phospholipases A
- Phospholipases A2
- Poly A
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Polymorphism, Genetic
- Reference Values
- Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid
