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Schizoid avoidant behavior

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Schizoid personality disorder and avoidant personality disorder have both been associated with the same polymorphism within the ANKK1 gene.[1] It remains unclear if these two personality disorders are linked to genetically distinct, but overlapping, personality disorders or if these two personality disorders are merely two different phenotypic expressions of the same genetic disorder.

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  1. ^ Blum K, Braverman ER, Wu S, et al. (May 1997). "Association of polymorphisms of dopamine D2 receptor (DRD2), and dopamine transporter (DAT1) genes with schizoid/avoidant behaviors (SAB)". Molecular Psychiatry. 2 (3): 239–46. doi:10.1038/sj.mp.4000261. PMID 9152988.