Article
Serotonin subtype 2 receptor genes and clinical response to clozapine in schizophrenia patients.
Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology - 1 Aug 1998
Masellis M, Basile V, Meltzer H Y, Lieberman J A, Sevy S, Macciardi F M, Cola P, Howard A, Badri F, Nöthen M M, Kalow W, Kennedy J L
Abstract excerpt
Using a pharmacogenetic approach in 185 schizophrenics who have been prospectively assessed for clozapine response, we have examined the hypothesis that polymorphisms in the 5-HT2A (HTR2A), and 5-HT2C (HTR2C) genes are involved in its variable response. A-1438 A-->G polymorphism in the putative p...
Topics
- Adult
- Analysis of Variance
- Antipsychotic Agents
- Black People
- Clozapine
- DNA
- Female
- Gene Frequency
- Genotype
- Haplotypes
- Humans
- Linkage Disequilibrium
- Male
- North America
- Point Mutation