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Evidence suggestive of a locus on chromosome 5q31 contributing to susceptibility for schizophrenia in German and Israeli families by multipoint affected sib-pair linkage analysis.
Molecular psychiatry - 1 Mar 1997
Schwab S G, Eckstein G N, Hallmayer J, Lerer B, Albus M, Borrmann M, Lichtermann D, Ertl M A, Maier W, Wildenauer D B
Abstract excerpt
Suggestive evidence for a potential susceptibility locus for schizophrenia at 5q31 was obtained in two family samples. Sample I consisted of 14 families with schizophrenia and revealed for the marker IL9 a lod score of 1.8 by two point lod score analysis. Sample II comprised 44 families including four from sample I and was ascertained in order to employ affected sib-pair analysis by identity by descent. A lod...
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