A genome-wide association study of schizophrenia using brain activation as a quantitative phenotype

Schizophrenia Bulletin

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 96-108

  Potkin, Steven G ^a   Turner, Jessica A ^a   Guffanti, Guia ^a,b   Lakatos, Anita ^a   Fallon, James H ^a   Nguyen, Dana D ^a   Mathalon, Daniel ^c,d   Ford, Judith ^c,d   Lauriello, John ^e,f   Macciardi, Fabio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^f MIND RESEARCH NETWORK   (United States)

Author keywords

DLPFC; fMRI; Genes; Genome wide scan; Schizophrenia; Working memory

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEINS AND BINDING PROTEINS; OXYGEN; ROUNDABOUT RECEPTOR; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR ASSOCIATED FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENETICS; GENOME; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEUROIMAGING; OXYGEN BLOOD LEVEL; PHENOTYPE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCREENING; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STRESS;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN; FEMALE; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOME; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, IMMUNOLOGIC; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SODIUM-POTASSIUM-CHLORIDE SYMPORTERS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 57749203394     PISSN: 05867614     EISSN: 17451701     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sbn155     Document Type: Article

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