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A serine to glycine substitution at position 9 in the extracellular N-terminal part of the dopamine D3 receptor protein: no role in the genetic predisposition to bipolar affective disorder.

Association studies offer a promising tool to investigate the potential role of DNA sequence variation affecting the expression or sequence of proteins in susceptibility to common diseases. We determined the frequency of a DNA polymorphism resulting in a glycine to serine substitution at position 9 in the extracellular N-terminal part of the dopamine D3 receptor protein in a sample of 83 patients suffering from bipolar affective disorder and 100 control subjects. No significant differences between the groups were found. Thus, this substitution, which is the first sequence variation identified in the dopamine D3 receptor gene altering the amino acid sequence of the protein, can be regarded as a protein variant with no major effect on the susceptibility to bipolar affective disorder.[1]

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  1. A serine to glycine substitution at position 9 in the extracellular N-terminal part of the dopamine D3 receptor protein: no role in the genetic predisposition to bipolar affective disorder. Rietschel, M., Nöthen, M.M., Lannfelt, L., Sokoloff, P., Schwartz, J.C., Lanczik, M., Fritze, J., Cichon, S., Fimmers, R., Körner, J. Psychiatry research. (1993) [Pubmed]
 
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