@article{d43a12fd650d402e87dd126d564ac558,
title = "Common variants on 8p12 and 1q24.2 confer risk of schizophrenia",
abstract = "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 southern Han Chinese). We further analyzed the strongest association signals in an additional independent cohort of 4,383 cases and 4,539 controls from the Han Chinese population. Meta-analysis identified common SNPs that associated with schizophrenia with genome-wide significance on 8p12 (rs16887244, P = 1.27 × 10(-10)) and 1q24.2 (rs10489202, P = 9.50 × 10(-9)). Our findings provide new insights into the pathogenesis of schizophrenia.",
keywords = "Adult, Aged, Asian Continental Ancestry Group, Case-Control Studies, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 1, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 8, Female, Genetic Loci, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Principal Component Analysis, Risk Factors, Schizophrenia, Young Adult",
author = "Yongyong Shi and Zhiqiang Li and Qi Xu and Ti Wang and Tao Li and Jiawei Shen and Fengyu Zhang and Jianhua Chen and Guoquan Zhou and Weidong Ji and Baojie Li and Yifeng Xu and Dengtang Liu and Peng Wang and Ping Yang and Benxiu Liu and Wensheng Sun and Chunling Wan and Shengying Qin and Guang He and Stacy Steinberg and Sven Cichon and Thomas Werge and Engilbert Sigurdsson and Sarah Tosato and Aarno Palotie and N{\"o}then, {Markus M} and Marcella Rietschel and Ophoff, {Roel A} and Collier, {David A} and Dan Rujescu and Clair, {David St} and Hreinn Stefansson and Kari Stefansson and Jue Ji and Qingzhong Wang and Wenjin Li and Linqing Zheng and Hairong Zhang and Guoyin Feng and Lin He",
year = "2011",
month = dec,
doi = "10.1038/ng.980",
language = "English",
volume = "43",
pages = "1224--7",
journal = "Nature Genetics",
issn = "1061-4036",
publisher = "Nature Publishing Group",
number = "12",
}