Cadherin 13: Human cis-Regulation and Selectively Altered Addiction Phenotypes and Cerebral Cortical Dopamine in Knockout Mice

• Main Authors: Jana Drgonova (Author), Donna Walther (Author), G. Luke Hartstein (Author), Mohammad O. Bukhari (Author), Michael H. Baumann (Author), Jonathan Katz (Author), F. Scott Hall (Author), Elizabeth R. Arnold (Author), Shaun Flax (Author), Anthony Riley (Author), Olga Rivero (Author), Klaus-Peter Lesch (Author), Juan Troncoso (Author), Barbara Ranscht (Author), George R. Uhl (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract The Cadherin 13 (CDH13) gene encodes a cell adhesion molecule likely to influence development and connections of brain circuits that modulate addiction, locomotion and cognition, including those that involve midbrain dopamine neurons. Human CDH13 mRNA expression differs by more than 80% in...