Genome scan of European-American schizophrenia pedigrees: results of the NIMH Genetics Initiative and Millennium Consortium.
The Genetics Initiative of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) was a multisite study that created a national repository of DNA from families informative for genetic linkage studies of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and Alzheimer's disease. The schizophrenia families were collected by three sites: Washington University, Harvard University, and Columbia University. This article, one in a series that describes the data collected for linkage analysis by the schizophrenia consortium, presents the results for the European-American sample. The European-American sample comprised 43 nuclear families and 146 subjects. Ninety-six of the family members were considered affected by virtue of having received a DSM-III-R diagnosis of schizophrenia (N = 82) or schizoaffective disorder, depressed (N = 14). The families contained a total of 50 independent sib-pairs. Using the significance threshold criteria suggested by Lander and Kruglyak [(1995): Nat Genet 241-247], no region showed statistically significant evidence for linkage; two markers on chromosome 10p showed statistical evidence suggestive of linkage using the criteria of Lander and Kruglyak [(1995): Nat Genet 241-247]: D10S1423 (nonparametric linkage (NPL) Z = 3.4, P = .0004) and its neighbor, D10S582 (NPL Z = 3.2, P = .0006).
Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School at Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Boston, USA.
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