Systematic screening for mutations in the glycine receptor α2 subunit gene (GLRA2)in patients with schizophrenia and other psychiatric diseases

Psychiatric Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 45-48

  Feng, Jinong ^a   Craddock, Nick ^b   Jones, Ian R ^b   Cook Jr , Edwin H ^c   Goldman, David ^d   Heston, Leonard L ^e   Peltonen, Leena ^f   DeLisi, Lynn E ^g   Sommer, Steve S ^a  

^a CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Detection of virtually all mutations SSCP; GLRA2; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

GLYCINE RECEPTOR; GLYCINE RECEPTOR ALPHA2; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; AUTISM; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MANIC DEPRESSIVE PSYCHOSIS; MENTAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERAL PSYCHOSIS; RECEPTOR GENE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION;

ALCOHOLISM; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; EXONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MUTATION; PILOT PROJECTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; PUERPERAL DISORDERS; RECEPTORS, GLYCINE; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

EID: 0034994009     PISSN: 09558829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00041444-200103000-00009     Document Type: Article

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