Variants in TERT influencing telomere length are associated with paranoid schizophrenia risk

American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics

Volumn 171, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 317-324

  Rao, Shuquan ^a   Ye, Ning ^a   Hu, Huiling ^a   Shen, Yan ^a   Xu, Qi ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Association study; Lymphocyte telomere length; Paranoid schizophrenia; TERT

Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE; TELOMERASE; TERT PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAN CHINESE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; LYMPHOCYTE TELOMERE LENGTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARANOID SCHIZOPHRENIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TERT GENE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; LYMPHOCYTE; METABOLISM; RISK FACTOR; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS;

ADULT; ALLELES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RISK FACTORS; SCHIZOPHRENIA, PARANOID; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS;

EID: 84961214399     PISSN: 15524841     EISSN: 1552485X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.b.32403     Document Type: Article

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