DNA stability and schizophrenia in twins

American Journal of Medical Genetics - Neuropsychiatric Genetics

Volumn 120 B, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-10

  Nguyen, Giang H ^a   Bouchard, Joseph ^a   Boselli, Monica G ^a   Tolstoi, Linda G ^a   Keith, Louis ^b   Baldwin, Clinton ^c   Nguyen, Nam C ^a   Schultz, Mark ^a   Herrera, Victoria L M ^c   Smith, Cassandra L ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bipolar disease; DNA fingerprinting; Fragile sites; Schizophrenia; Trinuclcotide repeats; Zygosity testing

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROPHORESIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; FRACTIONATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; MALE; MOLECULAR STABILITY; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TWIN DISCORDANCE; TWINS;

EID: 1842549480     PISSN: 15524841     EISSN: 1552485X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.b.20010     Document Type: Article

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