No Evidence That Schizophrenia Candidate Genes Are More Associated With Schizophrenia Than Noncandidate Genes

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 82, Issue 10, 2017, Pages 702-708

  Johnson, Emma C ^a   Border, Richard ^a   Melroy Greif, Whitney E ^b   de Leeuw, Christiaan A ^c,d   Ehringer, Marissa A ^a   Keller, Matthew C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Candidate genes; Complex traits; Gene set analysis; Genome wide association study; GWAS; Schizophrenia; Single nucleotide polymorphism; SNP

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; BUNGAROTOXIN RECEPTOR; CATECHOL METHYLTRANSFERASE; DISRUPTED IN SCHIZOPHRENIA 1 PROTEIN; DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE 3 RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE 4 RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE TRANSPORTER; DYSBINDIN; NOTCH4 RECEPTOR; RGS4 PROTEIN; SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

AKT1 GENE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DAO GENE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GRM3 GENE; HERITABILITY; HTR2A GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; KCNN3 GENE; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PPP3CC GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SYNAPSE; ZDHHC8 GENE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; REPRODUCIBILITY;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

EID: 85027437069     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: 18732402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2017.06.033     Document Type: Article

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