Brzustowicz L M, Hodgkinson K A, Chow E W, Honer W G, Bassett A S
Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ 07102, USA.
Science. 2000 Apr 28;288(5466):678-82. doi: 10.1126/science.288.5466.678.
Schizophrenia is a complex disorder, and there is substantial evidence supporting a genetic etiology. Despite this, prior attempts to localize susceptibility loci have produced predominantly suggestive findings. A genome-wide scan for schizophrenia susceptibility loci in 22 extended families with high rates of schizophrenia provided highly significant evidence of linkage to chromosome 1 (1q21-q22), with a maximum heterogeneity logarithm of the likelihood of linkage (lod) score of 6.50. This linkage result should provide sufficient power to allow the positional cloning of the underlying susceptibility gene.
精神分裂症是一种复杂的疾病,有大量证据支持其遗传病因。尽管如此,先前定位易感基因座的尝试主要产生了提示性的结果。对22个精神分裂症发病率高的大家庭进行的全基因组扫描,为与1号染色体(1q21-q22)的连锁提供了高度显著的证据,连锁可能性对数(lod)得分的最大异质性为6.50。这一连锁结果应提供足够的能力,以便对潜在的易感基因进行定位克隆。