Analysis of the VAV3 as candidate gene for schizophrenia: Evidences from voxel-based morphometry and mutation screening

Schizophrenia Bulletin

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 720-728

  Aleksic, Branko ^a,b   Kushima, Itaru ^a,b   Hashimoto, Ryota ^b,c   Ohi, Kazutaka ^b,c   Ikeda, Masashi ^b,d   Yoshimi, Akira ^a,b   Nakamura, Yukako ^a,b   Ito, Yoshihito ^a,b   Okochi, Tomo ^b,d   Fukuo, Yasuhisa ^b,d   Yasuda, Yuka ^b,c   Fukumoto, Motoyuki ^b,c   Yamamori, Hidenaga ^b,c   Ujike, Hiroshi ^e   Suzuki, Michio ^b,f   Inada, Toshiya ^b,g   Takeda, Masatoshi ^b,c   Kaibuchi, Kozo ^a,b   Iwata, Nakao ^b,d   Ozaki, Norio ^a,b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^g SEIWA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

axon guidance; GWAS; Japanese population; MRI; rare variant; resequencing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; FEMALE; GENE; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; MISSENSE MUTATION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; ONSET AGE; POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE SYNDROME SCALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; VAV3 GENE; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

ADULT; AGED; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BRAIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION, MISSENSE; NERVE FIBERS, UNMYELINATED; ORGAN SIZE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-VAV; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84876548631     PISSN: 05867614     EISSN: 17451701     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sbs038     Document Type: Article

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