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Genomewide high-density SNP linkage analysis of 236 Japanese families supports the existence of schizophrenia susceptibility loci on chromosomes 1p, 14q, and 20p.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Dec 2005
Arinami Tadao, Ohtsuki Tsuyuka, Ishiguro Hiroki, Ujike Hiroshi, Tanaka Yuji, Morita Yukitaka, Mineta Mari, Takeichi Masashi, Yamada Shigeto, Imamura Akira, Ohara Koichi, Shibuya Haruo, Ohara Kenshiro, Suzuki Yasuo, Muratake Tatsuyuki, Kaneko Naoshi, Someya Toshiyuki, Inada Toshiya, Yoshikawa Takeo, Toyota Tomoko, Yamada Kazuo, Kojima Takuya, Takahashi Sakae, Osamu Ohmori, Shinkai Takahiro, Nakamura Michiko, Fukuzako Hiroshi, Hashiguchi Tomo, Niwa Shin-ich, Ueno Takuya, Tachikawa Hirokazu, Hori Takafumi, Asada Takashi, Nanko Shinichiro, Kunugi Hiroshi, Hashimoto Ryota, Ozaki Norio, Iwata Nakao, Harano Mutsuo, Arai Heii, Ohnuma Tohru, Kusumi Ichiro, Koyama Tsukasa, Yoneda Hiroshi, Fukumaki Yasuyuki, Shibata Hiroki, Kaneko Sunao, Higuchi Hisashi, Yasui-Furukori Norio, Numachi Yohtaro, Itokawa Masanari, Okazaki Yuji
Abstract excerpt
The Japanese Schizophrenia Sib-Pair Linkage Group (JSSLG) is a multisite collaborative study group that was organized to create a national resource for affected sib pair (ASP) studies of schizophrenia in Japan. We used a high-density single-nucleotide-polymorphism (SNP) genotyping assay, the Illumina BeadArray linkage mapping panel (version 4) comprising 5,861 SNPs, to perform a genomewide linkage analysis of...
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