Synapsin III gene polymorphisms and schizophrenia

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 279, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 125-127

  Ohmori, Osamu ^a   Shinkai, Takahiro ^a   Hori, Hiroko ^a   Kojima, Hideki ^a   Nakamura, Jun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chromosome 22; Genetic association; Polymorphism; Schizophrenia; Synapsin III; Synapsins

Indexed keywords

SYNAPSIN; SYNAPSIN 3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

BASE SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; REFERENCE VALUES; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIA, CATATONIC; SCHIZOPHRENIA, DISORGANIZED; SCHIZOPHRENIA, PARANOID; SYNAPSINS;

EID: 0033984686     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00970-2     Document Type: Article

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