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Investigation of the co-occurrence of panic and phobic disorders with joint laxity led to the identification of interstitial duplications involving human chromosome 15q24–26 (named ‘DUP25’) in a Spanish population. DUP25 was observed in 97% of patients and in 7% of control individuals. In the present study, we used two different methods to detect DUP25: high-throughput molecular gene dosage analysis and fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH). We evaluated 56 lymphoblastoid cell lines derived from 26 unrelated patients with panic disorder obtained from several European and American populations and 30 normal controls. We could not find any cell line showing a result consistent with DUP25. These data do not support any association of DUP25 with panic disorder.
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We thank Dr. Vera Kalscheuer of the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany, for sending DNA of YAC 957b4 and Dr. Mary-Anne Enoch for her assistance in clinical data collection. We also thank Dr. Xavier Estivill and Lluis Armengol for providing DNA of cosmids c251-3 and t216-1.
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Zhu, G., Bartsch, O., Skrypnyk, C. et al. Failure to detect DUP25 in lymphoblastoid cells derived from patients with panic disorder and control individuals representing European and American populations. Eur J Hum Genet 12, 505–508 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201181
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