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Association study of PICK1 rs3952 polymorphism and schizophrenia
Chen-Jee Hong1, Ding-Lieh Liao, Hao-Ling Shih
1Department of Psychiatry, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, No. 201, Shih-Pai Road, Sec. 2, 11217, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC.
Abstract:
Protein interacting with C-kinase-1 (PICKl) plays an important role in the targeting and clustering of neuronal receptors and amine transporters. The PICK1 gene may play a role in conferring susceptibility to schizophrenia as it has been mapped to chromosome 22q13.1, a region thought to contain a gene for schizophrenia. We tested the hypothesis that an allelic variant of the PICK1 gene was associated with a diagnosis of schizophrenia. The PICK1 rs3952 polymorphism was genotyped in 225 schizophrenia and 260 controls. Results demonstrated that the PICK1 rs3952 genotype and allele distribution was significantly different between the two groups. The positive association suggests that the PICK1 gene may play a role in the pathogenesis of schizophrenia.
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