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ABSTRACT: The goal of the study is to find susceptibility genes for schizophrenia. Dataset versioning Consent groups and participant set
This consent group includes a subset of schizophrenia cases and all controls (which overlap with Bipolar study controls in Bipolar: GRU dataset).
This consent group includes a subset of schizophrenia cases.
PROVIDER: phs000021.v3.p2 | EGA |
REPOSITORIES: EGA
Shi Jianxin J Levinson Douglas F DF Duan Jubao J Sanders Alan R AR Zheng Yonglan Y Pe'er Itsik I Dudbridge Frank F Holmans Peter A PA Whittemore Alice S AS Mowry Bryan J BJ Olincy Ann A Amin Farooq F Cloninger C Robert CR Silverman Jeremy M JM Buccola Nancy G NG Byerley William F WF Black Donald W DW Crowe Raymond R RR Oksenberg Jorge R JR Mirel Daniel B DB Kendler Kenneth S KS Freedman Robert R Gejman Pablo V PV
Nature 20090701 7256
Schizophrenia, a devastating psychiatric disorder, has a prevalence of 0.5-1%, with high heritability (80-85%) and complex transmission. Recent studies implicate rare, large, high-penetrance copy number variants in some cases, but the genes or biological mechanisms that underlie susceptibility are not known. Here we show that schizophrenia is significantly associated with single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the extended major histocompatibility complex region on chromosome 6. We carried ou ...[more]