A gene co-expression network in whole blood of Schizophrenia patients is independent of antipsychotic-use and enriched for brain-expressed genes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  de Jong, Simone ^a,b,d   Boks, Marco P M ^a,b   Fuller, Tova F ^c   Strengman, Eric ^a,d   Janson, Esther ^a   de Kovel, Carolien G F ^a   Ori, Anil P S ^d   Vi, Nancy ^d   Mulder, Flip ^a   Blom, Jan Dirk ^e,f   Glenthøj, Birte ^g   Schubart, Chris D ^b   Cahn, Wiepke ^b   Kahn, René S ^b   Horvath, Steve ^c,h   Ophoff, Roel A ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e Parnassia Bravo Group   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^g UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROLEPTIC AGENT;

ABCF1 GENE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG USE; FEMALE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

ADULT; ALLELES; ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENTS; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BRAIN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

EID: 84862992566     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039498     Document Type: Article

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