Thomas N. Ferraro

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that, in the general population, the personality trait neuroticism is significantly correlated with almost every psychiatric disorder and migraine, and it is shown that both psychiatric and neurological disorders have robust correlations with cognitive and personality measures.

TL;DR: By comprehensive screening of the entire genome, a genome-wide scan is conducted on approximately 396 individuals from 22 multiplex pedigrees by using 607 microsatellite markers to detect unreported loci for bipolar disorder, found support for proposed linkages, and gained evidence for the overlap of susceptibility regions for bipolar Disorder and schizophrenia.

TL;DR: Results imply a susceptibility gene in the pericentromeric region of chromosome 18, with a complex mode of inheritance, and two plausible candidate genes, a corticotropin receptor and the alpha subunit of a GTP binding protein, have been localized to this region.

TL;DR: Results document that the complex genetic influences controlling seizure response in B6 and D2 mice are partially independent of the nature of the chemoconvulsant stimulus with a locus on distal chromosome 1 being of fundamental importance.

TL;DR: Maximum likelihood methods revealed three loci on murine chromosomes 1, 6 and 10 which are responsible for nearly 85% of the genetic variance observed between the two parental strains.