Mental Health
APOE genotype joins fetal or neonatal malnutrition as a risk for schizophrenia
Published in Women's Health Weekly, September 4th, 2003
"Five hundred and seventy nine Chinese patients with schizophrenia who met DSMIV criteria for the disorder were genotyped for alleles epsilon2,3,4 of apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene. All were recruited from inpatients and outpatients attending a large mental health center in Shanghai. Results were compared to APOE data on 1528 controls drawn from the same area," scientists writing in the journal Schizophrenia Research reported.
"Major differences in APOE genotype ratios and allele frequencies were observed between the patients and controls. The patients with...
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