Correspondence to Sand et al. "Critical Reappraisal of a Catechol-O-Methyltransferase Transversion Variant in Schizophrenia"

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 67, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Lill, Christina M ^a,b   Schjeide, Brit Maren M ^a   Roehr, Johannes T ^a,c   Zauft, Ute ^a   Allen, Nicole C ^d   Zipp, Frauke ^b   McQueen, Matthew B ^e   Kavvoura, Fotini K ^f   Ioannidis, John P A ^f,g,h,i   Khoury, Muin J ^j   Tanzi, Rudolph E ^k   Bertram, Lars ^a,k  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d Metropolitan College of New York   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^g INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^h TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

ⁱ HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^j NATIONAL CENTER ON BIRTH DEFECTS AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES   (United States)

^k MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATECHOL METHYLTRANSFERASE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; DATA BASE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LETTER; PHARMACOGENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

CATECHOL O-METHYLTRANSFERASE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

EID: 77949462739     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2010.02.003     Document Type: Letter

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