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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
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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;...
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