Confirmation and refinement of an 'at-risk' haplotype for schizophrenia suggests the EST cluster, Hs.97362, as a potential susceptibility gene at the Neuregulin-1 locus

Molecular Psychiatry

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 208-212

  Corvin, A P ^a,e   Morris, D W ^a   McGhee, K ^a   Schwaiger, S ^a   Scully, P ^b   Quinn, J ^b   Meagher, D ^b   St Clair, D ^c   Waddington, J L ^b,d   Gill, M ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b St Davnet's Hospital   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^d ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND   (Ireland)

^e ST JAMES S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Association; Linkage disequilibrium; Neuregulin 1; Risk haplotype; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

NEU DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR;

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FEMALE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; INTRON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; INTRONS; IRELAND; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; NEUREGULIN-1; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RISK FACTORS; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

EID: 10744230431     PISSN: 13594184     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.mp.4001412     Document Type: Article

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