Article
A genetic linkage study of schizophrenia to chromosome 5 markers in a northern Italian population.
Biological psychiatry - 1 Apr 1992
Macciardi F, Kennedy J L, Ruocco L, Giuffra L, Carrera P, Marino C, Rinaldi V, Smeraldi E, Ferrari M
Abstract excerpt
Some recent findings report that the area 5q11.2-13.3 of chromosome 5 segregates with schizophrenia in an uncle-nephew pair (Bassett et al 1988). However, linkage studies between chromosome 5 markers loci and schizophrenia lead to different results: Sherrington et al (1988) found a positive linkage, whereas other groups of researchers found evidence against linkage (Kennedy et al 1988; St. Clair et al 1989;...
Topics
- Chromosome Mapping
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 5
- Genetic Linkage
- Genetic Markers
- Humans
- Italy
- Pedigree
- Phenotype
- Schizophrenia
- Schizophrenic Psychology