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Linkage analysis of schizophrenia in African-American families.
Schizophrenia research - 1 Apr 2009
Wiener H W, Klei L, Irvin M D, Perry R T, Aliyu M H, Allen T B, Bradford L D, Calkins M E, Devlin B, Edwards N, Gur R E, Gur R C, Kwentus J, Lyons P D, McEvoy J P, Nasrallah H A, Nimgaonkar V L, O'Jile J, Santos A B, Savage R M, Go R C P
Abstract excerpt
While many studies have sought a window into the genetics of schizophrenia, few have focused on African-American families. An exception is the Project among African-Americans to Explore Risks for Schizophrenia (PAARTNERS), which seeks to identify novel and known risk variation for schizophrenia by genetic analyses of African-American families. We report a linkage study of diagnostic status in 217 African-American...
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