Runs of homozygosity implicate autozygosity as a schizophrenia risk factor.

Runs of homozygosity implicate autozygosity as a schizophrenia risk factor.

Autozygosity occurs when two chromosomal segments that are identical from a common ancestor are inherited from each parent. This occurs at high rates in the offspring of mates who are closely related (inbreeding), but also occurs at lower levels among the offspring of distantly related mates. Here,...

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Main Authors: Matthew C Keller, Matthew A Simonson, Stephan Ripke, Ben M Neale, Pablo V Gejman, Daniel P Howrigan, Sang Hong Lee, Todd Lencz, Douglas F Levinson, Patrick F Sullivan, Schizophrenia Psychiatric Genome-Wide Association Study Consortium
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3325203?pdf=render

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