The human frizzled-3 (FZD3) gene on chromosome 8p21, a receptor gene for Wnt ligands, is associated with the susceptibility to schizophrenia

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 353, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 53-56

  Katsu, Takeshi ^a   Ujike, Hiroshi ^a   Nakano, Takamitsu ^b   Tanaka, Yuji ^a   Nomura, Akira ^a   Nakata, Kenji ^a,c   Takaki, Manabu ^a   Sakai, Ayumu ^a,d   Uchida, Naohiko ^a,e   Imamura, Takaki ^a,f   Kuroda, Shigetoshi ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^c Tottori City Hospital   (Japan)

^d Kasaoka Hospital   (Japan)

^e Seiwakai Nishikawa Hospital   (Japan)

^f Sanyo Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Association study; Chromosome 8p21; FZD3; Japanese; Schizophrenia; Wnt

Indexed keywords

WNT PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 8P; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FRIZZLED 3 GENE; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR GENE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

EID: 10744222489     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2003.09.017     Document Type: Article

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