The schizophrenia risk allele c of the tcf4 rs9960767 polymorphism disrupts sensorimotor gating in schizophrenia spectrum and healthy volunteers

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 6684-6691

  Quednow, Boris B ^a,b,f   Ettinger, Ulrich ^c   Mössner, Rainald ^b   Rujescu, Dan ^c   Giegling, Ina ^c   Collier, David A ^d   Schmechtig, Anne ^d   Kühn, Kai Uwe ^b   Möller, Hans Jürgen ^c   Maier, Wolfgang ^b   Wagner, Michael ^b   Kumari, Veena ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PSYCHIATRY   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e SOUTH LONDON AND MAUDSLEY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC STARTLE RESPONSE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HABITUATION; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; PREPULSE INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SENSORY GATING; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STARTLE REFLEX; TCF4 GENE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALLELES; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SENSORY GATING; STARTLE REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 79955766426     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0526-11.2011     Document Type: Article

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