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Mitochondrial sequence variants in patients with schizophrenia.
European journal of human genetics : EJHG - 1 Jan 2000
Lindholm E, Cavelier L, Howell W M, Eriksson I, Jalonen P, Adolfsson R, Blackwood D H, Muir W J, Brookes A J, Gyllensten U, Jazin E E
Abstract excerpt
To investigate whether mitochondrial mutations underly susceptibility to schizophrenia, we sequenced the mtDNAs of two unrelated Swedish patients with schizophrenia and low cytochrome oxidase activity and two maternally related Scottish patients from a family with suspected maternal inheritance of the disease. We found five substitutions in coding regions that have not previously been described as polymorphisms....
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