The number of triplet repeats in five brain-expressed loci with CAG repeats is not associated with schizophrenia

Schizophrenia Research

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 111-116

  Gaitonde, Emma J ^a   Sivagnanasundaram, Sinthuja ^b   Morris, Alex G ^b   McKenna, Peter J ^c   Mollon, John D ^a   Hunt, David M ^b  

^a UK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c FULBOURN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Schizophrenia; Triplet repeat expansions

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC LINKAGE; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONSET AGE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

AGE OF ONSET; ALLELES; BASE SEQUENCE; BRAIN; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOME DISORDERS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 13; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 3; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

EID: 0030967653     PISSN: 09209964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0920-9964(97)00018-2     Document Type: Article

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