An examination of linkage of schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder to the pseudoautosomal region (Xp22.3)

Autor: Crow, Timothy J., Delisi, Lynn E., Lofthouse, Raymond, Poulter, Mark, Lehner, Thomas, Bass, Nicholas, Shah, Tarulata, Walsh, Catherine, Boccio-Smith, Angela, Shields, Gail, Ott, Jurg, Crow, T J, Delisi, L E, Lofthouse, R, Poulter, M, Lehner, T, Bass, N, Shah, T, Walsh, C, Boccio-Smith, A
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Zdroj: British Journal of Psychiatry; Feb94, Vol. 164, p159-164, 6p, 1 Diagram, 3 Graphs
Abstrakt: We investigated linkage between schizophrenia and the loci DXYS14, DXYS17, and MIC2 within the pseudoautosomal region in 85 families with two or more siblings suffering from schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder. A maximum lod score of 2.44 was reached at MIC2, with a dominant model of inheritance at a recombination fraction of 0.367 in females and 0.046 in males (a F:M sex ratio > 1, i.e. opposite to that expected with a pseudoautosomal locus). Evidence consistent with linkage (P = 0.01) was also obtained with a sibling pair analysis at the MIC2 locus. These data do not support (although they do not definitively exclude) a locus within the pseudoautosomal region; they are consistent with the presence of a gene that predisposes to schizophrenia in the sex-specific regions of the X and Y chromosomes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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