Methylation matters? Decreased methylation status of genomic DNA in the blood of schizophrenic twins

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 198, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 533-537

  Bönsch, Dominikus ^a,b   Wunschel, Michael ^b   Lenz, Bernd ^b   Janssen, Gesa ^c   Weisbrod, Matthias ^d   Sauer, Heinrich ^e  

^a Krankenhaus fur Psychiatrie   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^e FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; Promoter; Reelin; Schizophrenia; SOX10

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; REELIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX10;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REELIN GENE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOX10 GENE; TWIN DISCORDANCE; TWINS;

ADULT; ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENTS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES, NEURONAL; DNA METHYLATION; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SOXE TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 84868644813     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: 18727123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2011.09.004     Document Type: Article

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