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Replication study supports evidence for linkage to 9p24 in obsessive-compulsive disorder.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Sept 2004
Willour Virginia L, Yao Shugart Yin, Samuels Jack, Grados Marco, Cullen Bernadette, Bienvenu O Joseph, Wang Ying, Liang Kung-Yee, Valle David, Hoehn-Saric Rudolf, Riddle Mark, Nestadt Gerald
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Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a severe psychiatric illness that is characterized by intrusive and senseless thoughts and impulses (obsessions) and by repetitive behaviors (compulsions). Family, twin, and segregation studies support the presence of both genetic and environmental susceptibility factors, and the only published genome scan for OCD identified a candidate region on 9p24 at marker D9S288 that...
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