Research Article

Protective Effect of the MCP-1 Gene Haplotype against Schizophrenia

Table 1

Primers, fragment patterns, and enzymes used for RFLP analysis.

PolymorphismsPrimers (5′–3′)Amplicon sizes (bp)Restriction enzymes

-2518A/G (rs1024611)F: GCTCCGGGCCCAGTATCT
R: ACAGGGAAGGTGAAGGGTATGA
182,54
236
PvuII

362C/G (rs2857656)F: CTAGGCTTCTATGATGCTAC
R: TCCATTCACTGCTGAGACCA
201,110
311
Hpy188I

CCL2I/D (rs3917887)F: GCTGATCTTCCCTGGTGCTGAT
R: CATTAAATCCCAGTGCTTCTGCCTA
I:202
D:188

F: forward primer; R: reverse primer; I: insertion; D: deletion. In order to ratify the data generated by the PCR-RFPL method, we analyzed 25% of the samples randomly.