Cerebellar telomere length and psychiatric disorders

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 250-254

  Zhang, Dandan ^a   Cheng, Lijun ^a   Craig, David W ^b   Redman, Margot ^b   Liu, Chunyu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b Translational Genomic Research Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Bipolar disorder; Major depression; Mapping; Mean telomere length; Quantitative trait; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BLOOD; BRAIN; CEREBELLUM; CHROMOSOME SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GRAY MATTER; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TELOMERE; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BRAIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBELLUM; FEMALE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TELOMERE;

EID: 77949263574     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: 15733297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10519-010-9338-0     Document Type: Article

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