Keywordsnorth India; Tardive Dyskinesia; oxidative stress; NOS3; NQO1; Single nucleotide polymorphisms; association Tardive Dyskinesia (TD) is a severe debilitating movement disorder with a potentially irreversible course developing in schizophrenia patients under long term treatment with classical neuroleptics. Its development in a subset of patients (~20-25%), familial nature, and concordance amongst twins indicate a possible genetic basis (for review see Muller et al. 2004). In addition to the classical dopaminergic pathway genes, oxidative stress mediated neurotoxic damage is also an important hypothesis proposed to explain the development of TD. Considerable support to OS hypothesis comes from the observations of increased lipid peroxidation in cerebrospinal fluid in patients with TD and antioxidants such as vitamin E alleviate TD symptoms (Adler et al. 1999; for review see Lohr, 2003). Recently a novel antioxidant AD4 has been reported to reduce haloperidol induced vacuous chewing moments in rats (Sadan et al. 2005).In this study, genes involved in the maintenance of cellular redox balance namely, superoxide dismutase 2 (SOD2; MnSOD; Ala9Val), Uncoupling protein 2 (UCP2; 45bp del/ins), neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS; NOS1; His902His, rs2682826), endothelial NOS (eNOS; NOS3; 27bp ins/del), glutathione S transferase (GST; GSTMI, TI; Presence/Null; GSTPI, Ile105Val) and NADPH: quinone oxidoreductase 1 (NQO1, Pro187Ser) were analysed. Schizophrenia patients with TD (n=96) and without TD (n=239) were recruited for the study. SNPs were genotyped using PCR-RFLP and allelic, genotypic and haplotypic association was tested using χ 2 test. Further, to test whether severity of TD was influenced by genotype, mean AIMS score was compared across the genotypic categories for each of the polymorphism using Kruskal Wallis H test.