No Reliable Association between Runs of Homozygosity and Schizophrenia in a Well-Powered Replication Study.

It is well known that inbreeding increases the risk of recessive monogenic diseases, but it is less certain whether it contributes to the etiology of complex diseases such as schizophrenia. One way to estimate the effects of inbreeding is to examine the association between disease diagnosis and geno...

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Main Authors: Emma C Johnson, Douglas W Bjelland, Daniel P Howrigan, Abdel Abdellaoui, Gerome Breen, Anders Borglum, Sven Cichon, Franziska Degenhardt, Andreas J Forstner, Josef Frank, Giulio Genovese, Stefanie Heilmann-Heimbach, Stefan Herms, Per Hoffman, Wolfgang Maier, Manuel Mattheisen, Derek Morris, Bryan Mowry, Betram Müller-Mhysok, Benjamin Neale, Igor Nenadic, Markus M Nöthen, Colm O'Dushlaine, Marcella Rietschel, Douglas M Ruderfer, Dan Rujescu, Thomas G Schulze, Matthew A Simonson, Eli Stahl, Jana Strohmaier, Stephanie H Witt, Schizophrenia Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium, Patrick F Sullivan, Matthew C Keller
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-10-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5085024?pdf=render