D StClair

TL;DR: Genotyping multiple SNP and microsatellite markers in a large Scottish case‐control sample strengthens the candidacy of DISC1 as a risk factor for schizophrenia in the general population and suggests that more intensive searching for causative variants is justified.

TL;DR: Retrospective analysis shows that women who took estrogen replacement therapy may have less risk of cognitive decline and of developing Alzheimer's disease (AD), and may suggest that the risk for AD may be modulated only when both ERalpha and ERbeta have particular variations in their expression and/or biological activities.

TL;DR: Convergence of linkage, association and GWAS findings for a candidate region for bipolar disorder and schizophrenia on chromosome 4p is found.

TL;DR: This study supports the involvement of NRG1 variants in the less well studied 3' region in conferring susceptibility to SCZ and BPD in the Scottish population.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that many SNPs show genome-wide significant differences within European populations and the magnitude of the differences correlate with the geographical distance, at least some of these differences are due to the selective advantage of polymorphisms within these loci.