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Leena Peltonen

Researcher at Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute

Publications -  195
Citations -  35376

Leena Peltonen is an academic researcher from Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Genome-wide association study. The author has an hindex of 87, co-authored 195 publications receiving 33605 citations. Previous affiliations of Leena Peltonen include National Institutes of Health & University of California, Los Angeles.

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Common variants conferring risk of schizophrenia

Hreinn Stefansson, +94 more
- 06 Aug 2009 - 
TL;DR: Findings implicating the MHC region are consistent with an immune component to schizophrenia risk, whereas the association with NRGN and TCF4 points to perturbation of pathways involved in brain development, memory and cognition.
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Genome Scan Meta-Analysis of Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder, Part II: Schizophrenia

Cathryn M. Lewis, +54 more
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.
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An autoimmune disease, APECED, caused by mutations in a novel gene featuring two PHD-type zinc-finger domains

TL;DR: A novel gene, AIRE, encoding for a putative nuclear protein featuring two PHD-type zinc-finger motifs is isolated, suggesting its involvement in transcriptional regulation in APECED, suggesting the molecular basis of autoimmunity.
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Classical twin studies and beyond.

TL;DR: An overview of the current resources for twin research is provided to obtain insights into the genetic epidemiology of complex traits and diseases, to study the interaction of genotype with sex, age and lifestyle factors, and the causes of co-morbidity between traits and disease.