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SUBMITTER: Yuan J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3591373 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yuan Jianmin J Jin Chunhui C Qin Hai-De HD Wang Jidong J Sha Weiwei W Wang Mingzhong M Zhang Yunbiao Y Zhang Fuquan F Li Jijiang J Li Jianfeng J Yu Shui S Qi Shuguang S Shugart Yin Yao YY
PloS one 20130307 3
Schizophrenia (SCZ) is a severe psychiatric disorder associated with many different risk factors, both genetic and environmental. A recent genome-wide association study (GWAS) of Han Chinese identified three single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs rs11038167, rs11038172, and rs835784) in the tetraspanins gene TSPAN18 as possible susceptibility loci for schizophrenia. Hoping to validate these findings, we conducted a case-control study of Han Chinese with 1093 schizophrenia cases and 1022 healthy c ...[more]