Open AccessAnalysis of the role of human leukocyte antigen class-I genes to understand the etiopathology of schizophrenia
Author(s) -
Bisu Singh,
Sikta Banerjee,
Nirmal Kumar Bera,
Chittaranjan Nayak,
Tapas Kumar Chaudhuri
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
indian journal of psychiatry/indian journal of psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.485
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1998-3794
pISSN - 0019-5545
DOI - 10.4103/0019-5545.43625
Subject(s) - human leukocyte antigen , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , antigen , immunology , exact test , etiology , locus (genetics) , medicine , psychiatry , allele , outpatient clinic , psychology , gene , genetics , biology
Schizophrenia is the paradigmatic illness of psychiatry. The involvement of immunological and immunopathological mechanisms in the etiopathogenesis of schizophrenia has been a matter of research, with recently increasing effort.