Evidence supporting an association between the DRB1 gene and schizophrenia in Japanese.

doi:10.1016/s0920-9964(98)00047-4

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Evidence supporting an association between the DRB1 gene and schizophrenia in Japanese.

Schizophrenia research - 27 Jul 1998

Arinami T, Otsuka Y, Hamaguchi H, Itokawa M, Aoki J, Shibuya H, Okubo Y, Iwawaki A, Ota K, Enguchi H, Tagaya H, Yano S, Shimizu H, Toru M

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The authors attempted a replication of earlier studies that detected an association of HLA-DR4 and DR1 with schizophrenia. Japanese patients with schizophrenia (n = 266, DSM-III-R criteria) and Japanese controls (n = 283) were genotyped for DR1 and DR4 alleles using a combination of group-specifi...

Topics

Female
Genotype
HLA-DR Antigens
HLA-DR1 Antigen
HLA-DR4 Antigen
HLA-DRB1 Chains
Humans
Japan
Male
Middle Aged
Phenotype
Schizophrenia

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