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| | Marijuana receptor gene abnormality in schizophrenia |
 | | Although the polymorphism 1359/A was not associated with schizophrenia, the triplet repeat polymorphism of the CNR1 gene was significantly associated with schizophrenia, especially the hebephrenic subtype (P = 0.0028). |
 | | Hebephrenic schizophrenia showed significantly increased rate of the 9 repeat allele (P = 0.032, OR = 2.30, 95% Cl (191-2.69), and decreased rate of the 17 repeat allele (P = 0.011, OR = 0.208, 95% Cl (0.098-0.439)). |
 | | The hebephrenic type schizophrenia, which has been shown to be associated with the CNR1 gene in the present study, is characterized by predominant negative symptoms such as blunted affect, disorganized thought and deterioration of personality. |
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