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The dice are rolling for schizophrenia genetics

A commentary on ‘The emperors of the schizophrenia polygene have no clothes’ by Crow (2008)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 June 2008

P. F. Sullivan
P. F. Sullivan*
Affiliation:
Departments of Genetics, Psychiatry, & Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA Department of Medical Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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*Address for correspondence: P. F. Sullivan, M.D., FRANZCP, Department of Genetics, CB#7264, 4109D Neurosciences Research Building, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599-7264, USA. (Email: [email protected])
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Keywords

Evidencegenome-wide associationgenome-wide linkagemeta-analysisschizophrenia
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Psychological Medicine , Volume 38 , Issue 12 , December 2008 , pp. 1693 - 1696
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Copyright © 2008 Cambridge University Press

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