Family-based genome-wide association study of frontal theta oscillations identifies potassium channel gene KCNJ6

Genes, Brain and Behavior

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 712-719

  Kang, S J ^a   Rangaswamy, M ^a   Manz, N ^a   Wang, J C ^b   Wetherill, L ^c   Hinrichs, T ^b   Almasy, L ^d   Brooks, A ^e   Chorlian, D B ^a   Dick, D ^f   Hesselbrock, V ^f   Kramer, J ^g   Kuperman, S ^g   Nurnberger, J ^c   Rice, J ^b   Schuckit, M ^h   Tischfield, J ^e   Bierut, L J ^b   Edenberg, H J ^c   Goate, A ^b   Foroud, T ^c   Porjesz, B ^a   more..

^a Downstate Health Sciences University   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d SOUTHWEST FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^e RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcoholism; EEG; GWAS; KCNJ6; Oscillations

Indexed keywords

G PROTEIN COUPLED INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL; G PROTEIN COUPLED INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL 2; INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL SUBUNIT KIR3.2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL USE DISORDER; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHROMOSOME 21; ELECTRODE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EXON; FAMILY STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FRONTAL THETA EVENT RELATED OSCILLATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PARIETAL LOBE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; THETA RHYTHM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOLISM; CHILD; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; G PROTEIN-COUPLED INWARDLY-RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNELS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHENOTYPE; THETA RHYTHM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864126427     PISSN: 16011848     EISSN: 1601183X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-183X.2012.00803.x     Document Type: Article

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