11th International Congress of Human Genetics

Session Details

Neuropsychiatric Complex Traits

Tuesday, 8 August 2006 11:00 -13:00

Great Hall

Co-Chair Prof Jennifer A Donald Macquarie UniversityAustralia
Co-Chair John Blangero Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, San Antonio, TXUnited States

Design of the first generation of Genome Wide Association Studies
  • Mr Jeffrey C Barrett, WTCHG, Oxford University, United Kingdom
  • "Flip-flop" associations: can opposite alleles at the same locus be associated with the same disease?
  • Ping-I Lin, Center for Human Genetics, Duke University, United States
  • IDE Variants Associated with Elevated mRNA Reduce Risk for Late-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease
  • Steven G Younkin, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, United States
  • Association of PINK1 and DJ-1 Confers Digenic Inheritance of Early Onset Parkinson’s Disease
  • Zhuohua Zhang, Burnham Institute for Medical Research, United States
  • Positional cloning, association analysis and expression studies provide convergent evidence that the cadherin gene FAT contains a bipolar disorder susceptibility allele
  • Prof Peter R Schofield, Garvan Institute of Medical Reseach, University of New South Wales, Neuroscience Institute of Schizophrenia and Allied Disorder, Australia
  • NRG1 and the Risk of Schizophrenia: Does it Depend on Statistical Epistasis between NRG1 Protein-Interaction Partners ERBb4, CHRNA7, AKT1, DLG4, CAPON and NOS1?
  • Ms Kristin K Nicodemus, Genes Cognition and Psychosis Program, CBDB, NIMH, NIH, Bethesda MD, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins SPH, United States
  • Haplotypes in a 750 kb fragment encoding SPEC2, PDZ-GEF2 and ACSL6 genes are associated with schizophrenia
  • Xiangning Chen, Virginia Commonwealth University, United States
  • Semaphorin receptor gene, PLXNA2: a common causal variant for a spectrum of psychiatric disorders?
  • Naomi R Wray, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Australia
  • Published on Tuesday, 1 August 2006 by the Professional Conference Organiser