[We examined the role of the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor 2A subunit (GRIN2A) gene on 16p13.3, a region thought to be linked to bipolar disorder, (1) because in a prior study we identified a functional and polymorphic (GT)n repeat in the 5' regulatory region of the gene, with longer alleles showing lower transcriptional activity and an over representation in schizophrenia, and (2) because of the suggestion of a genetic overlap between affective disorder and schizophrenia.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
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