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Exclusion of five trinucleotide repeat (CAG and CCG) expansions in 17 families with schizophrenia.
Biological psychiatry - 1 Nov 1997
Ohara K, Tani K, Tsukamoto T, Suzuki Y, Xu H D, Xu D S, Wang Z C, Ohara K
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Trinucleotide repeat expansion diseases are characterized by anticipation. Several studies suggested the anticipation in schizophrenia. We studied five novel trinucleotide repeats identified by Li et al in a human brain cDNA library in 100 unrelated control subjects, and 57 subjects in 17 families with schizophrenia. The CTG-B43 and B45d, and CCG-A3 were not polymorphic in any unrelated control subjects or...
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