Association of With Symptom Severity and Cognitive Functioning in Belarusian Schizophrenia Patients.

MicroRNA-137 (miRNA-137; miR-137) is one of the important post-transcriptional regulators of the nervous system development, and its gene rs1625579 polymorphism was reported to be a potential regulator for schizophrenia susceptibility. However, schizophrenia characteristics controlled by rs1625579 polymorphism are still insufficiently understood. There were 3 groups included in the study: (a) subjects with diagnosis of schizophrenia ( = 150; 81-females, 69-males), (b) mentally healthy people (control group; = 102; 66-females, 36-males) and (c) Belarusian indigenous male group ( = 295).