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Familial aggregation of eye-tracking endophenotypes in families of schizophrenic patients.
Archives of general psychiatry - 1 Mar 2006
Hong L Elliot, Mitchell Braxton D, Avila Matthew T, Adami Helene, McMahon Robert P, Thaker Gunvant K
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BACKGROUND: Abnormal smooth pursuit eye movements (SPEMs) are some of the most reproducible biological changes associated with the susceptibility for schizophrenia. Recent studies have suggested that deficit in predictive pursuit, a specific component of the SPEMs, marks schizophrenia susceptibility. OBJECTIVE: To test whether predictive pursuit contains less extraneous noise and may be under more direct genetic...
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