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Bernice Porjesz1, Laura Almasy, Howard J Edenberg, Kongming Wang, David B Chorlian, Tatiana Foroud, Alison Goate, John P Rice, Sean J O'Connor, John Rohrbaugh, Samuel Kuperman, Lance O Bauer, Raymond R Crowe, Marc A Schuckit, Victor Hesselbrock, P Michael Conneally, Jay A Tischfield, Ting-Kai Li, Theodore Reich, Henri Begleiter.
Abstract
Human brain oscillations represent important features of information processing and are highly heritable. A common feature of beta oscillations (13-28 Hz) is the critical involvement of networks of inhibitory interneurons as pacemakers, gated by gamma-aminobutyric acid type A (GABA(A)) action. Advances in molecular and statistical genetics permit examination of quantitative traits such as the beta frequency of the human electroencephalogram in conjunction with DNA markers. We report a significant linkage and linkage disequilibrium between beta frequency and a set of GABA(A) receptor genes. Uncovering the genes influencing brain oscillations provides a better understanding of the neural function involved in information processing.Entities:
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Year: 2002 PMID: 11891318 PMCID: PMC122592 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.052716399
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ISSN: 0027-8424 Impact factor: 11.205