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Article: New findings from Y. Gu and co-researchers in the area of violent behavior described.(Report)
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- November 18, 2009
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"Haplotype analysis is hypothesized as having better power than individual SNPs in detecting the association between genotype and phenotype, but this approach has rarely been used in studies of the genetics of violent behavior in schizophrenia. The aim of this study was to further examine the role of the COMT gene in violent behavior," scientists in Chengdu, People's Republic of China report (see also Violent Behavior).
"Both individual SNP and haplotype were used to explore associations between COMT polymorphisms and violent behavior in 252 patients with violent behavior and 332 patients without violent behavior of Chinese Hall schizophrenics. Then the ...