Schizophrenia Research
Volume 67, Issue 1 , Pages 111-113 , 1 March 2004

Failure to find association between PRODH deletion and schizophrenia

  • Tsuyuka Ohtsuki

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medical Genetics, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8575, Japan
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  • Syunsuke Tanaka

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medical Genetics, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8575, Japan
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  • Hiroki Ishiguro

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medical Genetics, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8575, Japan
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  • Ei-ichi Tanabe

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neuropsychiatry, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo 173-8610, Japan
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  • Kazuo Yara

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neuropsychiatry, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo 173-8610, Japan
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  • Tatsunobu Okubo

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neuropsychiatry, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo 173-8610, Japan
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  • Sakae Takahashi

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neuropsychiatry, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo 173-8610, Japan
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  • Masato Matsuura

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neuropsychiatry, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo 173-8610, Japan
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  • Tei-ichiro Sakai

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neuropsychiatry, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo 173-8610, Japan
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  • Mariko Muto

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neuropsychiatry, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo 173-8610, Japan
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  • Eisuke Matsushima

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neuropsychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo 113-8519, Japan
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  • Emiko Noguchi

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medical Genetics, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8575, Japan
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  • Michio Toru

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neuropsychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo 113-8519, Japan
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  • Toshiya Inada

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Psychobiology, Nagoya University, Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya 466-8550, Japan
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  • Takuya Kojima

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neuropsychiatry, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo 173-8610, Japan
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  • Tadao Arinami

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +81-29-853-3352; fax: +81-29-853-3333.
    • Department of Medical Genetics, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8575, Japan

Received 2 May 2003

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 This study was supported by the grant of Research on Brain Science and the grant for Nervous and Mental Disorders from the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, and Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas “Medical Genome Science” from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan.

PII: S0920-9964(03)00160-9

doi: 10.1016/S0920-9964(03)00160-9

Schizophrenia Research
Volume 67, Issue 1 , Pages 111-113 , 1 March 2004