Selected summaries from the XVI World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics, Osaka, Japan, 11-15 October 2008

Psychiatric Genetics

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 219-236

  Bergen, Sarah ^a   Chen, Jingchun ^a   Dagdan, Elif ^a   Foon, Tee Shiau ^a   Goes, Fernando S ^a   Houlihan, Lorna M ^a   Kloiber, Stefan ^a   Kumar, Ravinesh A ^a   Kuzman, Martina Rojnic ^a   Menke, Andreas ^a   Pedroso, Inti ^a   Videtic, Alja ^a   Villafuerte, Sandra ^a   DeLisi, Lynn E ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcoholism; Autism; Bipolar disorder; Copy number variations; Drug abuse; Genome wide association studies; International Society of Psychiatric Genetics; Schizophrenia; World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA;

ADDICTION; ANIMAL; ANXIETY; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BRAIN; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONFERENCE PAPER; DRUG DEVELOPMENT; GENE DOSAGE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETICS; GERIATRICS; HUMAN; JAPAN; MENTAL DISEASE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PHARMACOGENETICS; PHENOTYPE; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SLEEP;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; BRAIN; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DRUG DISCOVERY; GENE DOSAGE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GERIATRICS; HUMANS; JAPAN; MENTAL DISORDERS; MICE; MICRORNAS; PHARMACOGENETICS; PHENOTYPE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SLEEP; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 76249111088     PISSN: 09558829     EISSN: 14735873     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/YPG.0b013e32832cec32     Document Type: Review

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