Department of veterans affairs cooperative studies program genetic linkage study of schizophrenia: Ascertainment methods and sample description

American Journal of Medical Genetics - Neuropsychiatric Genetics

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 342-347

  Tsuang, Ming T ^a,b,c,e   Faraone, Stephen V ^a,b,c   Bingham, Stephen ^a   Young, Keith ^a   Prabhudesai, Sarita ^a   Haverstock, Susan L ^a   Mena, Felicitas ^a   Srikumar Menon, A ^a   Pepple, John ^a,c   Johnson, Janet ^d   Baldwin, Charlene ^a   Weiss, David ^a   Collins, Joseph ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Harvard Inst Psychiat E   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Ascertainment; Genetic linkage; Schizophrenia; Veterans

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOME; HUMAN; LYMPHOBLAST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SIBLING; VERBAL MEMORY;

ADULT; DATA COLLECTION; ETHNIC GROUPS; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, VETERANS; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MULTICENTER STUDIES; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STATE GOVERNMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034640690     PISSN: 15524841     EISSN: 1552485X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1096-8628(20000612)96:3<342::AID-AJMG21>3.0.CO;2-J     Document Type: Article

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