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A genome-wide scan for schizophrenia and psychosis susceptibility loci in families of Mexican and Central American ancestry.
American journal of medical genetics. Part B, Neuropsychiatric genetics : the official publication of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics - 5 Mar 2007
Escamilla M A, Ontiveros A, Nicolini H, Raventos H, Mendoza R, Medina R, Munoz R, Levinson D, Peralta J M, Dassori A, Almasy L
Abstract excerpt
Schizophrenia is a complex psychiatric disorder, likely to be caused in part by multiple genes. In this study, linkage analyses were performed to identify chromosomal regions most likely to be associated with schizophrenia and psychosis in multiplex families of Mexican and Central American origin. Four hundred and fifty-nine individuals from 99 families, containing at least two siblings with hospital diagnoses of...
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