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SUBMITTER: Shi Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3773910 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature genetics 20111030 12
Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder affecting ∼1% of the world population, with heritability of up to 80%. To identify new common genetic risk factors, we performed a genome-wide association study (GWAS) in the Han Chinese population. The discovery sample set consisted of 3,750 individuals with schizophrenia and 6,468 healthy controls (1,578 cases and 1,592 controls from northern Han Chinese, 1,238 cases and 2,856 controls from central Han Chinese, and 934 cases and 2,020 controls from the ...[more]