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Runs of homozygosity reveal highly penetrant recessive loci in schizophrenia.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 11 Dec 2007
Lencz Todd, Lambert Christophe, DeRosse Pamela, Burdick Katherine E, Morgan T Vance, Kane John M, Kucherlapati Raju, Malhotra Anil K
Abstract excerpt
Evolutionarily significant selective sweeps may result in long stretches of homozygous polymorphisms in individuals from outbred populations. We developed whole-genome homozygosity association (WGHA) methodology to characterize this phenomenon in healthy individuals and to use this genomic feature to identify genetic risk loci for schizophrenia (SCZ). Applying WGHA to 178 SCZ cases and 144 healthy controls...
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