Charles A. Kaufmann

TL;DR: The DIGS is designed to be employed by interviewers who exercise significant clinical judgment and who summarize information in narrative form as well as in ratings, and should be useful as part of archival data gathering for genetic studies of major affective disorders, schizophrenia, and related conditions.

TL;DR: The GSMA produced significant genomewide evidence for linkage on chromosome 2q and suggests that some or all of these regions contain loci that increase susceptibility to schizophrenia in diverse populations.

TL;DR: The fact that different genetic loci were identified in this and in the European-American samples, lends credence to the notion that these genetic differences together with differences in environmental exposures may contribute to the reported differences in disease prevalence, severity, comorbidity, and course that has been observed in different racial groups in the United States and elsewhere.

TL;DR: The Genetics Initiative of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) was a multisite study that created a national repository of DNA from families informative for genetic linkage studies of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and Alzheimer's disease, presenting the results for the European-American sample.

TL;DR: Biopsychosocial assessments and interventions are essential for reducing the risk for suicidal behavior in individuals with schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder.