| Literature DB >> 15007391 |
B J Mowry1, P A Holmans, A E Pulver, P V Gejman, B Riley, N M Williams, C Laurent, S G Schwab, D B Wildenauer, S Bauché, M J Owen, B Wormley, A R Sanders, G Nestadt, K Y Liang, J Duan, R Ribble, N Norton, S Soubigou, W Maier, K R Ewen-White, N DeMarchi, B Carpenter, D Walsh, H Williams, M Jay, M Albus, D A Nertney, G Papadimitriou, A O'Neill, M C O'Donovan, J-F Deleuze, F B Lerer, D Dikeos, K S Kendler, J Mallet, J M Silverman, R R Crowe, D F Levinson.
Abstract
The hypothesis of the existence of one or more schizophrenia susceptibility loci on chromosome 22q is supported by reports of genetic linkage and association, meta-analyses of linkage, and the observation of elevated risk for psychosis in people with velocardiofacial syndrome, caused by 22q11 microdeletions. We tested this hypothesis by evaluating 10 microsatellite markers spanning 22q in a multicenter sample of 779 pedigrees. We also incorporated age at onset and sex into the analysis as covariates. No significant evidence for linkage to schizophrenia or for linkage associated with earlier age at onset, gender, or heterogeneity across sites was observed. We interpret these findings to mean that the population-wide effects of putative 22q schizophrenia susceptibility loci are too weak to detect with linkage analysis even in large samples.Entities:
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Year: 2004 PMID： 15007391 DOI： 10.1038/sj.mp.4001481
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Mol Psychiatry ISSN： 1359-4184 Impact factor: 15.992