Evidence for a pseudoautosomal locus for schizophrenia. I: A replication study using phenotype analysis.

Gorwood, P; Leboyer, M; d'Amato, T; Jay, M; Campion, D; Hillaire, D; Mallet, J; Feingold, J · Br J Psychiatry · 1992

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Abstract

A locus for schizophrenia within the pseudoautosomal region of chromosomes X and Y has been suggested by Crow on the basis of epidemiological data. The present report replicates this finding in a sample of 38 French multiply affected families with schizophrenia. Sibship and pairwise analysis, with or without weighted-pair correction, with three different systems of family classifications, showed there to be an excess of same-sex pairs in paternally derived sibships, as predicted by the pseudoautosomal hypothesis.

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