Letter to the EditorEarly trauma and clinical features of schizophrenia cases influenced by the BDNF Val66Met allele
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Role of the funding source
CNPq is a public Brazilian agency and its support is a fellowship for the first author's Post doctorate.
Contributors
André B. Veras, MD, PhD: First author. Full writing of the manuscript, tables preparation, statistical analysis and text review.
Clayton Peixoto, MSPH: Text writing and review.
Julie Walsh Messinger, PhD: Statistical analysis and tables preparation.
Mara Getz, BS: Text writing and text review.
Raymond Goetz, PhD: Statistical analysis and tables preparation.
Peter Buckley, MD: Mentoring and text review.
Moses Chao, PhD: Genetic analysis, mentoring and text review.
Antonio E. Nardi, MD, PhD: Mentoring
Conflict of interest
The authors declare no conflicts of interest related to the present manuscript.
Acknowledgements
The present work was made with the support of CNPq, Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico, Brazil (150289/2017-0).
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