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José María Pelayo-Terán1, Rocío Pérez-Iglesias, Javier Vázquez-Bourgon, Ignacio Mata, Eugenio Carrasco-Marín, José Luis Vázquez-Barquero, Benedicto Crespo-Facorro.
Abstract
Genetic factors play an important role in the understanding of clinical response to antipsychotic treatments. We aimed to assess the effect of the catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) genotype in the short-term (6 weeks) clinical response of 161 first-episode psychosis patients. COMT genotype was not related to clinical response at 6 weeks. Val homozygote patients showed higher negative symptoms than Met homozygote patients. The COMT Val158 genotype seems to be related to the severity of negative symptoms rather than to clinical response.Entities:
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Year: 2010 PMID: 20591499 DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2010.06.006
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Psychiatry Res ISSN: 0165-1781 Impact factor: 3.222