A recombination hotspot in a schizophrenia-associated region of GABRB2

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Ng, Siu Kin ^a,b   Lo, Wing Sze ^a,b   Pun, Frank W ^a,b   Zhao, Cunyou ^a,b   Yu, Zhiliang ^b   Chen, Jianhuan ^a,b   Tong, Ka Lok ^a,b   Xu, Zhiwen ^a,b   Tsang, Shui Ying ^a,b   Yang, Qiang ^a,b   Yu, Weichuan ^a,b   Nimgaonkar, Vishwajit ^c   Stöber, Gerald ^d   Harano, Mutsuo ^e   Xue, Hong ^a,b  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^e KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; GABRB2 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CONFORMATION; FEMALE; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUTATION RATE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COHORT ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; POINT MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 77949716888     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009547     Document Type: Article

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