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Excess of homozygosity in the major histocompatibility complex in schizophrenia.
Human molecular genetics - 15 Nov 2014
Mukherjee Semanti, Guha Saurav, Ikeda Masashi, Iwata Nakao, Malhotra Anil K, Pe'er Itsik, Darvasi Ariel, Lencz Todd
Abstract excerpt
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in schizophrenia have focused on additive allelic effects to identify disease risk loci. In order to examine potential recessive effects, we applied a novel approach to identify regions of excess homozygosity in an ethnically homogenous cohort: 904 schizophrenia cases and 1640 controls drawn from the Ashkenazi Jewish (AJ) population. Genome-wide examination of runs of...
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