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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 was an association between schizophrenia and alleles of a poly-A repeat polymorphism close to the 5' end of the PLA2...
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