A Systematic Genomewide Linkage Study in 353 Sib Pairs with Schizophrenia

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1355-1367

  Williams, N M ^a   Norton, N ^a   Williams, H ^a   Ekholm, B ^b   Hamshere, M L ^a   Lindblom, Y ^d   Chowdari, K V ^c   Cardno, A G ^a   Zammit, S ^a   Jones, L A ^a   Murphy, K C ^a   Sanders, R D ^a   McCarthy, G ^a   Gray, M Y ^a   Jones, G ^a   Holmans, P ^a   Nimgaonkar, V ^c   Adolfson, R ^d   Osby U ^b   Terenius, L ^b   Sedvall, G ^b   O'Donovan, M C ^a   Owen, M J ^a   more..

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^d UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 10Q; CHROMOSOME 17P; CHROMOSOME 17Q; CHROMOSOME 22Q; CLINICAL TRIAL; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MULTICENTER STUDY; PEDIGREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SIBLING; SIMULATION;

EID: 9144220855     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/380206     Document Type: Article

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