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Large scale genetic research on neuropsychiatric disorders in african populations is needed
EBioMedicine
  • Shareefa Dalvie, University of Cape Town
  • Nastassja Koen, University of Cape Town
  • Laramie Duncan, Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
  • Catherine Abbo, Makerere University
  • Dickens Akena, Makerere University
  • Lukoye Atwoli, Aga Khan University
  • Bonginkosi Chiliza, Stellenbosch University
  • Kirsten A Donald, University of Cape Town
  • Eugene Kinyanda, Makerere University
  • Christine Lochner, Medical Research Council (MRC) Unit on Anxiety and Stress Disorders, Cape Town, South Africa
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Publication Date
10-1-2015
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Abstract

In recent years there have been significant insights into the complex aetiologies of neurodevelopmental brain disorders. For example, neuropsychiatric genetics has achieved success with the identification of 108 loci for schizophrenia (Schizophrenia Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium, 2014). Furthermore, meta-analyses of genomewide association study (GWAS) results encompassing thousands of samples have been completed for other psychiatric disorders including attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism

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This work was published before the author joined Aga Khan University

Citation Information
Shareefa Dalvie, Nastassja Koen, Laramie Duncan, Catherine Abbo, et al.. "Large scale genetic research on neuropsychiatric disorders in african populations is needed" EBioMedicine Vol. 2 Iss. 10 (2015) p. 1259 - 1261
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/lukoye_atwoli/23/