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Apolipoprotein E regulatory region genotype in schizophrenia.
Neuroscience letters - 30 Oct 1998
Shinkai T, Ohmori O, Kojima H, Terao T, Suzuki T, Abe K, Nakamura J
Abstract excerpt
Clinical observations indicate that a proportion of patients with schizophrenia experience cognitive impairment, which suggests that a neurodegenerative basis might be involved in the etiology of schizophrenia. Apolipoprotein E (ApoE), which has been confirmed to be genetically associated with Alzheimer's disease, is thus highlighted as a candidate gene for schizophrenia. Recently, novel functional polymorphisms...
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