TY - JOUR TI - No major schizophrenia locus detected on chromosome 1q in a large multicenter sample AU - Levinson, DF AU - Holmans, PA AU - Laurent, C AU - Riley, B AU - Pulver, AE AU - and Gejman, PV AU - Schwab, SG AU - Williams, NM AU - Owen, MJ and AU - Wildenauer, DB AU - Sanders, AR AU - Nestadt, G AU - Mowry, BJ AU - Wormley, AU - B AU - Bauche, S AU - Soubigou, S AU - Ribble, R AU - Nertney, DA AU - Liang, AU - KY AU - Martinolich, L AU - Maier, W AU - Norton, N AU - Williams, H and AU - Albus, M AU - Carpenter, EB AU - deMarchi, N AU - Ewen-White, KR AU - Walsh, AU - D AU - Jay, M AU - Deleuze, JF AU - O'Neill, FA AU - Papadimitriou, G and AU - Weilbaecher, A AU - Lerer, B AU - O'Donovan, MC AU - Dikeos, D and AU - Silverman, JM AU - Kendler, KS AU - Mallet, J AU - Crowe, RR AU - Walters, M JO - SCIENCE CHINA Information Sciences PY - 2002 VL - 296 TODO - 5568 SP - 739-741 PB - AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE SN - null TODO - 10.1126/science.1069914 TODO - null TODO - Reports of substantial evidence for genetic linkage of schizophrenia to chromosome 1q were evaluated by genotyping 16 DNA markers across 107 centimorgans of this chromosome in a multicenter sample of 779 informative schizophrenia pedigrees. No significant evidence was observed for such linkage, nor for heterogeneity in allele sharing among the eight individual samples. Separate analyses of European-origin families, recessive models of inheritance, and families with larger numbers of affected cases also failed to produce significant evidence for linkage. If schizophrenia susceptibility genes are present on chromosome 1q, their population-wide genetic effects are likely to be small. ER -