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A transmission/disequilibrium study of the DRB1*04 gene locus on chromosome 6p21.3 with schizophrenia.
Schizophrenia research - 27 Jul 1998
Wright P, Dawson E, Donaldson P T, Underhill J A, Sham P C, Zhao J, Gill M, Nanko S, Owen M J, McGuffin P, Murray R M
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Patients with schizophrenia rarely develop rheumatoid arthritis, an autoimmune disease that exhibits genetic association with the HLA DRB1*04 gene. We previously investigated the hypothesis that schizophrenia is negatively associated with DRB1*04, and found that only half the expected number of schizophrenic patients had this gene when compared with controls. We now report the results of DRB1*04 genotyping in...
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