Article
Evidence for a pseudoautosomal locus for schizophrenia. II: Replication of a non-random segregation of alleles at the DXYS14 locus.
The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science - 1 Jul 1992
d'Amato T, Campion D, Gorwood P, Jay M, Sabate O, Petit C, Abbar M, Malafosse A, Leboyer M, Hillaire D
Abstract excerpt
Because of an association between sexual aneuploidies and schizophrenia, and because schizophrenic siblings have been found to be more often of the same than of the opposite sex, the susceptibility locus for schizophrenia is thought to lie within the pseudoautosomal region of the sex chromosomes....
Topics
- Alleles
- Blotting, Southern
- Chromosome Mapping
- DNA Probes
- Female
- Humans
- Lod Score
- Male
- Schizophrenia
- Sex Chromosomes