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SUBMITTER: Legge SE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5065090 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Legge S E SE Hamshere M L ML Ripke S S Pardinas A F AF Goldstein J I JI Rees E E Richards A L AL Leonenko G G Jorskog L F LF Chambert K D KD Collier D A DA Genovese G G Giegling I I Holmans P P Jonasdottir A A Kirov G G McCarroll S A SA MacCabe J H JH Mantripragada K K Moran J L JL Neale B M BM Stefansson H H Rujescu D D Daly M J MJ Sullivan P F PF Owen M J MJ O'Donovan M C MC Walters J T R JTR
Molecular psychiatry 20160712 10
The antipsychotic clozapine is uniquely effective in the management of schizophrenia; however, its use is limited by its potential to induce agranulocytosis. The causes of this, and of its precursor neutropenia, are largely unknown, although genetic factors have an important role. We sought risk alleles for clozapine-associated neutropenia in a sample of 66 cases and 5583 clozapine-treated controls, through a genome-wide association study (GWAS), imputed human leukocyte antigen (HLA) alleles, ex ...[more]