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 th
NIMH genetics initiative millennium schizophrenia consortium: Linkage analysis of African-American pedigrees
โ Scribed by Kaufmann, Charles A.; Suarez, Brian; Malaspina, Dolores; Pepple, John; Svrakic, Dragan; Markel, Paul D.; Meyer, Joanne; Zambuto, Christopher T.; Schmitt, Karin; Matise, Tara Cox; Friedman, Jill M. Harkavy; Hampe, Carol; Lee, Hang; Shore, David; Wynne, Debra; Faraone, Stephen V.; Tsuang, Ming T.; Cloninger, C. Robert
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 57 KB
- Volume
- 81
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0148-7299
- DOI
- 10.1002/(sici)1096-8628(19980710)81:4<282::aid-ajmg2>3.0.co;2-w
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โฆ Synopsis
The NIMH Genetics Initiative is a multi-site collaborative study designed to create a national resource for genetic studies of complex neuropsychiatric disorders.
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