Genomic discordance between monozygotic twins discordant for schizophrenia

American Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 155, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 422-424

  Tsujita, Takahiro ^a   Niikawa, Norio ^b   Yamashita, Hideji ^b   Imamura, Akira ^b   Hamada, Akira ^b   Nakane, Yoshibumi ^b   Okazaki, Yuji ^b  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DNA METHYLATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME IMPRINTING; HUMAN; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOMATIC MUTATION; TWIN DISCORDANCE; TWO DIMENSIONAL ELECTROPHORESIS;

EID: 0031919439     PISSN: 0002953X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/ajp.155.3.422     Document Type: Article

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