The polymorphic nature of the human dopamine D4 receptor gene: A comparative analysis of known variants and a novel 27 bp deletion in the promoter region

BMC Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Szantai, E ^a,b   Szmola, R ^a   Sasvari Szekely, M ^a   Guttman, Andras ^c   Ronai, Z ^a  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; DOPAMINE 4 RECEPTOR; NUCLEOTIDE; THREONINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CAUCASIAN; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; PSYCHIATRY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SAMPLING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; START CODON; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS;

BINDING SITES; GENE DELETION; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE D4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 26444490677     PISSN: 14712156     EISSN: 14712156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2156-6-39     Document Type: Article

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