A highly significant association between a COMT haplotype and schizophrenia

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1296-1302

  Shifman, Sagiv ^a,b   Bronstein, Michal ^b   Sternfeld, Meira ^b   Pisanté Shalom, Anne ^a   Lev Lehman, Efrat ^b   Weizman, Avraham ^c   Reznik, Ilya ^d   Spivak, Baruch ^d   Grisaru, Nimrod ^e   Karp, Leon ^c   Schiffer, Richard ^f   Kotler, Moshe ^g,h   Strous, Rael D ^g,h   Swartz Vanetik, Marnina ⁱ   Knobler, Haim Y ^b   Shinar, Eilat ^j   Beckmann, Jacques S ^k   Yakir, Benjamin ^a   Risch, Neil ^l   Zak, Naomi B ^b   Darvasi, Ariel ^a,b,m   more..

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b Kfar Shaul Hospital   (Israel)

^c GEHA MENTAL HEALTH CENTER   (Israel)

^d NESS ZIONA MENTAL HEALTH CENTER   (Israel)

^e BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^f LEV HASHARON MENTAL HEALTH CENTER   (Israel)

^g Mental Health Center Be'er Ya'akov   (Israel)

^h TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

ⁱ ABARBANEL MENTAL HEALTH CENTER   (Israel)

^j MAGEN DAVID ADOM   (Israel)

^k WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^l STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^m IDgene Pharmaceuticals Ltd   (Israel)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATECHOL METHYLTRANSFERASE; GENOMIC DNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

EID: 0036913209     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/344514     Document Type: Article

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