A Genome-Wide Association Study Suggests Novel Loci Associated with a Schizophrenia-Related Brain-Based Phenotype

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Hass, Johanna ^a   Walton, Esther ^a   Kirsten, Holger ^b   Liu, Jingyu ^c,d   Priebe, Lutz ^e   Wolf, Christiane ^f   Karbalai, Nazanin ^f   Gollub, Randy ^g,h   White, Tonya ⁱ   Roessner, Veit ^a   Müller, Kathrin U ^a   Paus, Tomas ^j,k,l   Smolka, Michael N ^a   Schumann, Gunter ^m   Scholz, Markus ^b   Cichon, Sven ^e,f,n   Calhoun, Vince ^c,d   Ehrlich, Stefan ^a,h,i  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c MSC01 1070   (United States)

^d MIND RESEARCH NETWORK   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^f MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

^g HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^h MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^k UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^l MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^m KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

ⁿ FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BABAM1 GENE; BRAIN; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; CHROMOSOME 1; CHROMOSOME 10; CHROMOSOME 18P; CHROMOSOME 2; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EUROPE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN GENETICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NR2F6 GENE; PHENOTYPE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; UNITED STATES; USHBP1 GENE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; METABOLISM; MULTICENTER STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC LOCI; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

EID: 84879257277     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064872     Document Type: Article

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