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Identification of high risk DISC1 structural variants with a 2% attributable risk for schizophrenia.
Biochemical and biophysical research communications - 14 Mar 2008
Song Wenjia, Li Wenyan, Feng Jinong, Heston Leonard L, Scaringe William A, Sommer Steve S
Abstract excerpt
The causes of schizophrenia remain elusive. In a large Scottish pedigree, a balanced translocation t(1;11) (q42.1;q14.3) disrupting the DISC1 and DISC2 genes segregates with major mental illness, including schizophrenia and unipolar depression. A frame-shift carboxyl-terminal deletion was reported in DISC1 in an American family, but subsequently found in two controls. A few common structural variants have been...
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