Search for cognitive trait components of schizophrenia reveals a locus for verbal learning and memory on 4q and for visual working memory on 2q

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 13, Issue 16, 2004, Pages 1693-1702

  Paunio, Tiina ^a,b   Tuulio Henriksson, Annamari ^a   Hiekkalinna, Tero ^a   Perola, Markus ^a   Varilo, Teppo ^a   Partonen, Timo ^a   Cannon, Tyrone D ^c   Lönnqvist, Jouko ^a   Peltonen, Leena ^a,d,e  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHROMOSOME 10P; CHROMOSOME 11Q; CHROMOSOME 13Q; CHROMOSOME 14Q; CHROMOSOME 15Q; CHROMOSOME 18Q; CHROMOSOME 1Q; CHROMOSOME 22Q; CHROMOSOME 2Q; CHROMOSOME 4Q; CHROMOSOME 6Q; CHROMOSOME 7Q; CHROMOSOME 8Q; CHROMOSOME 9P; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COGNITION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY STUDY; FEMALE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENEALOGY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC TRAIT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEARNING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; RECOGNITION; SCHIZOPHRENIA; VARIANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MEMORY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SCHIZOPHRENIA; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 4444332521     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddh184     Document Type: Article

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