Pilot study on schizophrenia in Sardinia

Human Heredity

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 92-96

  Ott, Jurg ^a,b   MacCiardi, Fabio ^c,d   Shen, Yuanyuan ^a   Carta, Mauro G ^e   Murru, Andrea ^e   Triunfo, Riccardo ^f,g   Robledo, Renato ^e,f   Rinaldi, Antoniettina ^e,f   Contu, Licinio ^e,f   Siniscalco, Marcello ^b,f  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences and China National Center for Bioinformation   (China)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^f Sardinian Center for Genome Diversity   (Italy)

^g CENTER FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Genetic association; Genome wide association study; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; ITALY; MALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ALLELE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT STUDY;

ADULT; ALLELES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

EID: 77953583298     PISSN: 00015652     EISSN: 14230062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000313844     Document Type: Article

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