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Identification of new schizophrenia susceptibility loci in an ethnically homogeneous, family-based, Arab-Israeli sample.
FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology - 1 Nov 2011
Alkelai Anna, Lupoli Sara, Greenbaum Lior, Giegling Ina, Kohn Yoav, Sarner-Kanyas Kyra, Ben-Asher Edna, Lancet Doron, Rujescu Dan, Macciardi Fabio, Lerer Bernard
Abstract excerpt
While the use of population-based samples is a common strategy in genome-wide association studies (GWASs), family-based samples have considerable advantages, such as robustness against population stratification and false-positive associations, better quality control, and the possibility to check for both linkage and association. In a genome-wide linkage study of schizophrenia in Arab-Israeli families with...
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