CHRNA7 and CHRFAM7A mRNAs: Co-localized and their expression levels altered in the postmortem dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in major psychiatric disorders

American Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 172, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1122-1130

  Kunii, Yasuto ^a   Zhang, Wenyu ^a   Xu, Qing ^a   Hyde, Thomas M ^a   McFadden, Whitney ^a   Shin, Joo Heon ^a   Deep Soboslay, Amy ^a   Ye, Tianzhang ^a   Li, Chao ^a   Kleinman, Joel E ^a   Wang, Kuan Hong ^a   Lipska, Barbara K ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUNGAROTOXIN RECEPTOR; LITHIUM SALT; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; NICOTINE; CHRNA7 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CHRFAM7A GENE; CHRNA7 GENE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSOLATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SMOKING; TOXICOLOGY; ADOLESCENT; AGED; CASE CONTROL STUDY; FETUS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALPHA7 NICOTINIC ACETYLCHOLINE RECEPTOR; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SCHIZOPHRENIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84946134056     PISSN: 0002953X     EISSN: 15357228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2015.14080978     Document Type: Article

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