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ArticleThe American journal of psychiatry2008

A genome screen for quantitative trait loci influencing schizophrenia and neurocognitive phenotypes.

Laura Almasy, Ruben C Gur, Karin Haack, Shelley A Cole, Monica E Calkins, Juan Manuel Peralta, Elizabeth Hare, Konsale Prasad, Michael F Pogue-Geile, Vishwajit Nimgaonkar and 1 more

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46 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 68 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Laura AlmasyDepartment of Genetics, Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, P.O. Box 760549, San Antonio, TX 78249-0549, USA. almasy@sfbrgenetics.org
Ruben C Gur
Karin Haack
Shelley A Cole
Monica E Calkins
Juan Manuel Peralta
Elizabeth Hare
Konsale Prasad
Michael F Pogue-Geile
Vishwajit Nimgaonkar
Raquel E Gur
Texas Biomedical Research Institute · US

Funding

NEUROBEHAVIORAL STUDY OF SCHIZOPHRENIAR01MH042191 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI GUR, RAQUEL E · 1987 to 2018
$7.1M
Quantitative Trait Locus Mapping in Human PedigreesR37MH059490 · NIMH · TEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI BLANGERO, JOHN · 2001 to 2010
$6.8M
A Neurobehavioral Family Study of SchizophreniaR01MH063480 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI NIMGAONKAR, VISHWAJIT LAXMIKANT · 2001 to 2018
$6.1M
A Neurobehavioral Family Study of SchizophreniaR01MH061622 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS RIO GRANDE VALLEY · PI ALMASY, LAURA A. · 2001 to 2018
$4.9M
Psychiatric research infrastructure for intervention and implementation in India – TEAMSD43TW009114 · FIC · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI Smita N Deshpande, Mary Elizabeth Hawk · 2014 to 2026
$3.2M
EXTRAMULAR RESEARCH FACILITIES CONSTRUCTIONC06RR017515 · NCRR · SOUTHWEST FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RES · PI SHADE, ROBERT E · 2003 to 2003
$3.1M
RGS4 Polymorphisms and Neurobiology of SchizophreniaK23MH072995 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI PRASAD, KONASALE M · 2005 to 2009
$877k
QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING IN HUMAN PEDIGREESR01MH059490 · NIMH · SOUTHWEST FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RES · PI BLANGERO, JOHN · 1998 to 2000
$426k
4/5 Genetics of Transcriptional Endophenotypes in SchizophreniaR01MH093745 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI NIMGAONKAR, VISHWAJIT LAXMIKANT · 2012 to 2014
$224k
NEUROBEHAVIORAL STUDY OF SCHIZOPHRENIAR37MH042191 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI GUR, RAQUEL E · 1990 to 1999
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MOLECULAR AND BIOCHEMICAL GENETICS LABORATORY RENOVATIONC06RR013556 · NCRR · SOUTHWEST FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RES · PI SHADE, ROBERT E · 1998 to 1998
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveDeficits in neurocognitive function have been demonstrated in individuals with schizophrenia and in the unaffected family members of these individuals. Genetic studies of such complementary traits, along with traditional analyses of diagnosis, may help to elucidate the biological pathways underlying familial liability to schizophrenia and related disorders. The authors conducted a multiplex, multigenerational family study using a genome-wide screen for schizophrenia and related neurocognitive phenotypes.

methodParticipants were 1) 676 European American individuals from 43 families, ascertained through an individual with schizophrenia, and 2) 236 healthy comparison subjects. Participants were evaluated clinically and examined through the use of a computerized neurocognitive test battery that provided measures of accuracy and speed on the cognitive domains of abstraction and mental flexibility; attention; verbal, face, and spatial memory; language and reasoning; spatial and emotion processing; and sensorimotor dexterity. A genome-wide linkage screen was also performed. Healthy comparison subjects were included in order to obtain normative phenotypic data but were not genotyped.

resultsSignificant evidence for linkage of schizophrenia to chromosome 19q was observed. Analysis of cognitive traits revealed significant linkage to chromosome 5q for the domains of abstraction and mental flexibility. A variety of other neurocognitive traits also showed nominal evidence of linkage to the 5q region. Joint analyses with diagnosis suggested that this quantitative trait locus may also influence schizophrenia.

conclusionsAlthough chromosome 5 has been implicated in previous linkage studies of schizophrenia, the identification of the chromosome 19 quantitative trait locus is a novel finding. The identification of the chromosome 5 quantitative trait locus through linkage to neurocognitive phenotypes in the present study may inform functional hypotheses pertaining to how genotypes are connected to disease.

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GenomePhenotypeAdultAllelesBrainChromosomes, Human, Pair 19Cognition DisordersFemaleGenetic TestingGenotypeHumansMaleMicrosatellite RepeatsNeuropsychological TestsQuantitative Trait LociSchizophrenia

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