Summary
A novel dopamine D3 receptor gene that may be involved in psychiatric diseases has recently been characterized. It has been assigned to chromosome 3 by hybridization with a D3 receptor probe to human sorted chromosomes, and localized to band 3q 13.3 by in situ hybridization.
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Le Coniat, M., Sokoloff, P., Hillion, J. et al. Chromosomal localization of the human D3 dopamine receptor gene. Hum Genet 87, 618–620 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00209024
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