Initial Heritability Analyses of Endophenotypic Measures for Schizophrenia
Archives of General PsychiatryPublished 1 November 2007Open access
Tiffany A. Greenwood, David Braff, Gregory A. Light, Kristin S. Cadenhead, Monica E. Calkins, Dorcas J. Dobie
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This is the first large-scale, multisite, family-based heritability study of a collection of endophenotypic measures for schizophrenia and suggests that endophenotypes are important measures to consider in characterizing the genetic basis of schizophrenia.
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This is the first large-scale, multisite, family-based heritability study of a collection of endophenotypes for schizophrenia and suggests that endophenotypes are important measures to consider in characterizing the genetic basis of schizophrenia.
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