Schizophrenia: A common disease caused by multiple rare alleles

British Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 190, Issue MAR., 2007, Pages 194-199

  McClellan, Jon M ^a   Susser, Ezra ^b,c   King, Mary Claire ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Mailman School of Public Health ^*  (United States)

^c NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN; APOLIPOPROTEIN E; APOLIPOPROTEIN E4; BINDING PROTEIN; BRCA1 PROTEIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN; CATECHOL METHYLTRANSFERASE; CONNEXIN 26; DYSBINDIN; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR 3; NEU DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR; PRESENILIN 1; PRESENILIN 2; RGS4 PROTEIN; UBIQUITIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EPILEPSY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; LIPID METABOLISM; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

ALLELES; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

EID: 33847759937     PISSN: 00071250     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.bp.106.025585     Document Type: Review

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