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• Common polygenic variation contributes to risk of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

  Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder with a lifetime risk of about 1%, characterized by hallucinations, delusions and cognitive deficits, with he…

  Authors: International Schizophrenia Consortium, Shaun M Purcell, Naomi R Wray, Jennifer L Stone, Peter M Visscher, Michael C O'Donovan, Patrick F Sullivan, Pamela Sklar

  Source: Nature. 2009 Aug 6

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• Common genetic determinants of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in Swedish families: a population-based study.

  BACKGROUND: Whether schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are the clinical outcomes of discrete or shared causative processes is much debated in psychiat…

  Authors: Paul Lichtenstein, Benjamin H Yip, Camilla Björk, Yudi Pawitan, Tyrone D Cannon, Patrick F Sullivan, Christina M Hultman

  Source: Lancet. 2009 Jan 17

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• Spurious genetic associations.

  BACKGROUND: Genetic association studies are widely used in biomedical research and yet only a minority of positive findings stand the test of replicat…

  Authors: Patrick F Sullivan

  Source: Biological psychiatry. 2007 May 15

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• New models of collaboration in genome-wide association studies: the Genetic Association Information Network.

  The Genetic Association Information Network (GAIN) is a public-private partnership established to investigate the genetic basis of common diseases thr…

  Authors: GAIN Collaborative Research Group, Teri A Manolio, Laura Lyman Rodriguez, Lisa Brooks, Gonçalo Abecasis, Collaborative Association Study of Psoriasis, Dennis Ballinger, Mark Daly, Peter Donnelly, Stephen V Faraone,…

  Source: Nature genetics. 2007 Sep

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• Premorbid predictors of chronic fatigue.

  CONTEXT: Chronic fatigue syndrome is a disabling problem characterized by persistent fatigue lasting at least 6 months with a number of ancillary symp…

  Authors: Kenji Kato, Patrick F Sullivan, Birgitta Evengård, Nancy L Pedersen

  Source: Archives of general psychiatry. 2006 Nov

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• Microduplications of 16p11.2 are associated with schizophrenia.

  Recurrent microdeletions and microduplications of a 600-kb genomic region of chromosome 16p11.2 have been implicated in childhood-onset developmental …

  Authors: Shane E McCarthy, Vladimir Makarov, George Kirov, Anjene M Addington, Jon McClellan, Seungtai Yoon, Diana O Perkins, Diane E Dickel, Mary Kusenda, Olga Krastoshevsky,…

  Source: Nature genetics. 2009 Nov

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• The genetics of anorexia nervosa.

  Anorexia nervosa is a perplexing illness marked by low body weight and persistent fear of weight gain. Anorexia nervosa has the highest mortality rate…

  Authors: Cynthia M Bulik, Margarita C T Slof-Op't Landt, Eric F van Furth, Patrick F Sullivan

  Source: Annual review of nutrition. 2007

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• Current developments in the genetics of autism: from phenome to genome.

  Despite compelling evidence from twin and family studies indicating a strong genetic involvement in the etiology of autism, the unequivocal detection …

  Authors: Molly Losh, Patrick F Sullivan, Dimitri Trembath, Joseph Piven

  Source: Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology. 2008 Sep

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• Genome-wide linkage analysis of multiple measures of neuroticism of 2 large cohorts from Australia and the Netherlands.

  CONTEXT: People meeting diagnostic criteria for anxiety or depressive disorders tend to score high on the personality scale of neuroticism. Studying t…

  Authors: Naomi R Wray, Christel M Middeldorp, Andrew J Birley, Scott D Gordon, Patrick F Sullivan, Peter M Visscher, Dale R Nyholt, Gonneke Willemsen, Eco J C de Geus, P Eline Slagboom,…

  Source: Archives of general psychiatry. 2008 Jun

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• Prevalence, heritability, and prospective risk factors for anorexia nervosa.

  CONTEXT: Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a serious mental illness with marked morbidity and mortality. OBJECTIVE: To explore the prevalence, heritability, an…

  Authors: Cynthia M Bulik, Patrick F Sullivan, Federica Tozzi, Helena Furberg, Paul Lichtenstein, Nancy L Pedersen

  Source: Archives of general psychiatry. 2006 Mar

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