| Literature DB >> 16604305 |
H Kunugi1, R Hashimoto, T Okada, H Hori, T Nakabayashi, A Baba, K Kudo, M Omori, S Takahashi, R Tsukue, K Anami, N Hirabayashi, A Kosuga, M Tatsumi, K Kamijima, T Asada, S Harada, K Arima, O Saitoh.
Abstract
We examined, for the first time, the possible association between schizophrenia and the anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) gene which plays an important role in neurodevelopment. When two nonsynonymous polymorphisms (Arg1491Lys and Glu1529Asp) were examined, there were significant differences in genotype and allele distributions between patients and controls. Individuals homozygous for the minor allele (1491Lys-1529Asp) were more common in patients than in controls (p = 0.0064, odds ratio 2.4, 95% CI 1.3-4.6). These results suggest that genetic variations of the ALK gene might confer susceptibility to schizophrenia.Entities:
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Year: 2006 PMID: 16604305 DOI: 10.1007/s00702-006-0436-3
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Neural Transm (Vienna) ISSN: 0300-9564 Impact factor: 3.575