The Relationship of Common Risk Variants and Polygenic Risk for Schizophrenia to Sensorimotor Gating

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 79, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 988-996

  Roussos, Panos ^a,b   Giakoumaki, Stella G ^c   Zouraraki, Chrysoula ^c   Fullard, John F ^a   Karagiorga, Vasiliki Eirini ^a   Tsapakis, Eva Maria ^d   Petraki, Zoe ^c   Siever, Larry J ^a,b   Lencz, Todd ^e,f,g   Malhotra, Anil ^e,f,g   Spanaki, Cleanthe ^c   Bitsios, Panos ^c  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^d Aghios Charalambos Mental Health Centre   (United States)

^e ZUCKER HILLSIDE HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f Fenstein Institute for Medical Research   (United States)

^g DONALD AND BARBARA ZUCKER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT HOFSTRA NORTHWELL   (United States)

Author keywords

Baseline startle; Endophenotypes; eQTL; GWAS; Heritability; Prepulse inhibition

Indexed keywords

NERVE GROWTH FACTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALNEURON 1GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR GENE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREPULSE INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SENSORY GATING; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STARTLE REFLEX; ADOLESCENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; ENDOPHENOTYPE; GENETICS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; ENDOPHENOTYPES; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PREPULSE INHIBITION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; REFLEX, STARTLE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84937509570     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: 18732402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2015.06.019     Document Type: Article

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