COMT genotype and manic symptoms in schizophrenia.

Schizophr Res

Department of Psychiatry Research, The Zucker Hillside Hospital, North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, 75-59 263rd Street, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, and Harvard Partners Center for Genetics and Genomics, Boston, MA, United States.

Published: October 2006

Inconsistencies in the relation between COMT variation and schizophrenia may be clarified by careful delineation of a target phenotype. The present study reports a significant association between a COMT haplotype and the severity of manic symptoms in 162 patients with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder (SZ). These data suggest that the effect of COMT variation may be associated with comorbid manic symptoms in SZ.

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