A Genome-Wide Association Study Suggests Novel Loci Associated with a Schizophrenia-Related Brain-Based Phenotype

Patients with schizophrenia and their siblings typically show subtle changes of brain structures, such as a reduction of hippocampal volume. Hippocampal volume is heritable, may explain a variety of cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia and is thus considered an intermediate phenotype for this mental...

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Main Authors: Hass, Johanna, Walton, Esther, Kirsten, Holger, Liu, Jingyu, Priebe, Lutz, Wolf, Christiane, Karbalai, Nazanin, White, Tonya, Roessner, Veit, Müller, Kathrin U., Paus, Tomas, Smolka, Michael N., Schumann, Gunter, Scholz, Markus, Cichon, Sven, Calhoun, Vince D., Ehrlich, Stefan, Gollub, Randy Lyanne
Other Authors: Martinos Imaging Center (McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT)
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Public Library of Science 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/81225