Genetics of Alzheimer's disease: a centennial review

N Ertekin-Taner - Neurologic clinics, 2007 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) genetics may be one of the most prolifically published areas in
medicine and biology. Three early-onset AD genes with causative mutations (APP, PSEN1 …

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder endophenotypes

AE Doyle, EG Willcutt, LJ Seidman, J Biederman… - Biological …, 2005 - Elsevier
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a highly heritable disorder with a
multifactorial pattern of inheritance. For complex conditions such as this, biologically based …

[HTML][HTML] A subset-based approach improves power and interpretation for the combined analysis of genetic association studies of heterogeneous traits

S Bhattacharjee, P Rajaraman, KB Jacobs… - The American Journal of …, 2012 - cell.com
Pooling genome-wide association studies (GWASs) increases power but also poses
methodological challenges because studies are often heterogeneous. For example …

[HTML][HTML] A high-density screen for linkage in multiple sclerosis

International Multiple Sclerosis Genetics … - The American Journal of …, 2005 - Elsevier
To provide a definitive linkage map for multiple sclerosis, we have genotyped the Illumina
BeadArray linkage mapping panel (version 4) in a data set of 730 multiplex families of …

[HTML][HTML] Cigarette smoking strongly modifies the association of LOC387715 and age-related macular degeneration

S Schmidt, MA Hauser, WK Scott, EA Postel… - The American Journal of …, 2006 - cell.com
We used iterative association mapping to identify a susceptibility gene for age-related
macular degeneration (AMD) on chromosome 10q26, which is one of the most consistently …

Are endophenotypes based on measures of executive functions useful for molecular genetic studies of ADHD?

AE Doyle, SV Faraone, LJ Seidman… - Journal of Child …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Background: Behavioral genetic studies provide strong evidence that attention‐
deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has a substantial genetic component. Yet, due to the …

Genetics, statistics and human disease: analytical retooling for complexity

TA Thornton-Wells, JH Moore, JL Haines - TRENDS in Genetics, 2004 - cell.com
Molecular biologists and geneticists alike now acknowledge that most common human
diseases with a genetic component are likely to have complex etiologies. Yet despite this …

[HTML][HTML] Age-related maculopathy: a genomewide scan with continued evidence of susceptibility loci within the 1q31, 10q26, and 17q25 regions

DE Weeks, YP Conley, HJ Tsai, TS Mah… - The American Journal of …, 2004 - cell.com
Age-related maculopathy (ARM), or age-related macular degeneration, is one of the most
common causes of visual impairment in the elderly population of developed nations. In a …

Defining the phenotype in human genetic studies: forward genetics and reverse phenotyping

TG Schulze, FJ McMahon - Human heredity, 2005 - karger.com
The definition of phenotypes for genetic study is a challenging endeavor. Just as we apply
strict quality standards to genotype data, we should expect that phenotypes meet …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic evidence for a distinct subtype of schizophrenia characterized by pervasive cognitive deficit

JF Hallmayer, L Kalaydjieva, J Badcock… - The American Journal of …, 2005 - cell.com
A novel phenotyping strategy in schizophrenia, targeting different neurocognitive domains,
neurobehavioral features, and selected personality traits, has allowed us to identify a …