Joanne M. Meyer

TL;DR: In this paper, a method and compositions for diagnosing and treating neuropsychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar affective disorder, unipolar affective disorders and adolescent conduct disorder, are presented.

TL;DR: Genetic factors explained a significant proportion of the variation in the use of tobacco, alcohol and other drugs and shared environmental factors contributed significantly to lifetime alcohol use and other drug use.

TL;DR: Significant but moderate primary assortment exists for psychiatric disorders and the bias in twin studies that have ignored the small amount of assortment is negligible.

TL;DR: This paper found evidence for linkage on 1q42 maximizing within the DISC1 gene (rs1000731, lod=2.70), which has also been implied in the etiology of schizophrenia based on functional studies.

TL;DR: Data is reported from a third genome scan in a nationwide Finnish schizophrenia study sample of 238 pedigrees with 591 affected individuals, where some evidence for linkage emerged at 4q, 9q and Xp, the regions also suggested by the previous genome scans, whereas, in the nationwide study sample, the region at 7q failed to show further evidence of linkage.