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Parent-of-origin effects on handedness and schizophrenia susceptibility on chromosome 2p12-q11.
Human molecular genetics - 15 Dec 2003
Francks Clyde, DeLisi Lynn E, Shaw Sarah H, Fisher Simon E, Richardson Alex J, Stein John F, Monaco Anthony P
Abstract excerpt
Schizophrenia and non-right-handedness are moderately associated, and both traits are often accompanied by abnormalities of asymmetrical brain morphology or function. We have found linkage previously of chromosome 2p12-q11 to a quantitative measure of handedness, and we have also found linkage of schizophrenia/schizoaffective disorder to this same chromosomal region in a separate study. Now, we have found that in...
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