Schizophrenia as variation in the sapiens-specific epigenetic instruction to the embryo

Clinical Genetics

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 319-324

  Crow, T J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bipolar disorder; Cerebral torque; Chromosome pairing; Epigenesis; Hominin lineage; Meiosis; Missing heritability; MSUC; PCDH11XY; PRDM9; Sapiens; Schizophrenia; Sexual selection; Speciation; Xq21.3; Yp11.2

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE;

BRAIN ASYMMETRY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPIGENETICS; FOSSIL HOMININ; GENE DELETION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; KARYOTYPE 46,XY; MEIOSIS; NATURAL SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEXUAL SELECTION; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME DUPLICATION; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

EID: 84858289514     PISSN: 00099163     EISSN: 13990004     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0004.2012.01830.x     Document Type: Review

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