Increased burden of ultra-rare protein-altering variants among 4,877 individuals with schizophrenia

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 1433-1441

  Genovese, Giulio ^a,b   Fromer, Menachem ^c   Stahl, Eli A ^c   Ruderfer, Douglas M ^c   Chambert, Kimberly ^a   Landén, Mikael ^d   Moran, Jennifer L ^a   Purcell, Shaun M ^c   Sklar, Pamela ^c   Sullivan, Patrick F ^e,f   Hultman, Christina M ^f   McCarroll, Steven A ^a,b  

^a BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; RNA; NERVE PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXOME; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SWEDISH CITIZEN; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; MUTATION; RISK; SWEDEN;

EXOME; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MALE; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; RISK; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SWEDEN;

EID: 84989926166     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.4402     Document Type: Article

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