Patrick F Sullivan

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Affiliation: Virginia Commonwealth University
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Candidate genes for nicotine dependence via linkage, epistasis, and bioinformatics
    Patrick F Sullivan
    Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, VA, USA
    Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 126:23-36. 2004
  2. ncbi Evaluation of analyses of univariate discrete twin data
    Patrick F Sullivan
    Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond, 23298 0126, USA
    Behav Genet 32:221-7. 2002
  3. ncbi A joint genomewide linkage analysis of symptoms of alcohol dependence and conduct disorder
    Kenneth S Kendler
    Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia 23298, USA
    Alcohol Clin Exp Res 30:1972-7. 2006
  4. ncbi A twin study of genetic and environmental influences on tobacco initiation, regular tobacco use and nicotine dependence
    Hermine H Maes
    Departments of Human Genetics and Psychiatry, Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298 0003, USA
    Psychol Med 34:1251-61. 2004
  5. ncbi Genome-wide association study of patient-rated and clinician-rated global impression of severity during antipsychotic treatment
    Shaunna L Clark
    Center for Biomarker Research and Personalized Medicine, School of Pharmacy, Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia 23298 0581, USA
    Pharmacogenet Genomics 23:69-77. 2013
  6. ncbi A genome scan of neuroticism in nicotine dependent smokers
    Benjamin M Neale
    Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Department of Psychiatry, Medical College of Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA
    Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 132:65-9. 2005
  7. ncbi Identification of susceptibility loci for alcohol-related traits in the Irish Affected Sib Pair Study of Alcohol Dependence
    Po Hsiu Kuo
    Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Department of Psychiatry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298, USA
    Alcohol Clin Exp Res 30:1807-16. 2006
  8. ncbi Genotype-based ancestral background consistently predicts efficacy and side effects across treatments in CATIE and STAR*D
    DANIEL E ADKINS
    Center for Biomarker Research and Personalized Medicine, School of Pharmacy, Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA
    PLoS ONE 8:e55239. 2013
  9. ncbi Genetic and environmental contributions to obesity and binge eating
    Cynthia M Bulik
    Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, PO Box 980126, Richmond, VA 23298 0126, USA
    Int J Eat Disord 33:293-8. 2003
  10. ncbi A framework for controlling false discovery rates and minimizing the amount of genotyping in the search for disease mutations
    Edwin J C G van den Oord
    Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Medical College of Virginia Virginia Commonwealth University, PO Box 980126, Richmond, VA 23298 0126, USA
    Hum Hered 56:188-99. 2003

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Publications70

  1. ncbi Candidate genes for nicotine dependence via linkage, epistasis, and bioinformatics
    Patrick F Sullivan
    Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, VA, USA
    Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 126:23-36. 2004
    ..Although the hypotheses resulting from these linkage and bioinformatic analyses are plausible and intriguing, their ultimate worth depends on replication in additional linkage samples and in future experimental studies...
  2. ncbi Evaluation of analyses of univariate discrete twin data
    Patrick F Sullivan
    Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond, 23298 0126, USA
    Behav Genet 32:221-7. 2002
    ..These results suggest that the use of AIC to guide twin modeling for univariate discrete traits should either be abandoned or used with great caution...
  3. ncbi A joint genomewide linkage analysis of symptoms of alcohol dependence and conduct disorder
    Kenneth S Kendler
    Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia 23298, USA
    Alcohol Clin Exp Res 30:1972-7. 2006
    ..Are the susceptibility genes underlying this peak specific for AD or do they increase risk for externalizing disorders more generally? Can we, in the IASPSAD, replicate prior evidence for linkage to conduct disorder (CD)?..
  4. ncbi A twin study of genetic and environmental influences on tobacco initiation, regular tobacco use and nicotine dependence
    Hermine H Maes
    Departments of Human Genetics and Psychiatry, Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298 0003, USA
    Psychol Med 34:1251-61. 2004
    ..As the development of ND requires regular tobacco use (RTU) which in turn requires TI, a conditional approach is necessary...
  5. ncbi Genome-wide association study of patient-rated and clinician-rated global impression of severity during antipsychotic treatment
    Shaunna L Clark
    Center for Biomarker Research and Personalized Medicine, School of Pharmacy, Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia 23298 0581, USA
    Pharmacogenet Genomics 23:69-77. 2013
    ..To examine the unique and congruent findings between multiple raters in a genome-wide association study (GWAS) in the context of understanding individual differences in treatment response during antipsychotic therapy for schizophrenia...
  6. ncbi A genome scan of neuroticism in nicotine dependent smokers
    Benjamin M Neale
    Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Department of Psychiatry, Medical College of Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA
    Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 132:65-9. 2005
    ..52 and 1.97 (P-value of 0.003 and 0.0108) respectively, and have some evidence for a novel finding on chromosome 12 with a LOD of 2.85 (P-value of 0.0014)...
  7. ncbi Identification of susceptibility loci for alcohol-related traits in the Irish Affected Sib Pair Study of Alcohol Dependence
    Po Hsiu Kuo
    Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Department of Psychiatry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298, USA
    Alcohol Clin Exp Res 30:1807-16. 2006
    ..The goal of this study was to identify genomic regions containing susceptibility loci for alcohol-related traits...
  8. ncbi Genotype-based ancestral background consistently predicts efficacy and side effects across treatments in CATIE and STAR*D
    DANIEL E ADKINS
    Center for Biomarker Research and Personalized Medicine, School of Pharmacy, Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA
    PLoS ONE 8:e55239. 2013
    ..As relatively few new psychiatric drugs are currently under development, such personalized medicine offers a promising approach toward optimizing pharmacotherapy for psychiatric conditions...
  9. ncbi Genetic and environmental contributions to obesity and binge eating
    Cynthia M Bulik
    Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, PO Box 980126, Richmond, VA 23298 0126, USA
    Int J Eat Disord 33:293-8. 2003
    ..The purpose of this article was to determine the extent of overlap between genetic and environmental factors that contribute to the liability to obesity and binge eating...
  10. ncbi A framework for controlling false discovery rates and minimizing the amount of genotyping in the search for disease mutations
    Edwin J C G van den Oord
    Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Medical College of Virginia Virginia Commonwealth University, PO Box 980126, Richmond, VA 23298 0126, USA
    Hum Hered 56:188-99. 2003
    ..To develop a method for designing studies to find disease mutations that can achieve a set of goals with respect to proportions of false and true discoveries with the minimum amount of genotyping...
  11. ncbi A systematic method for estimating individual responses to treatment with antipsychotics in CATIE
    Edwin J C G van den Oord
    Center for Biomarker Research and Personalized Medicine, Medical College of Virginia of Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond VA, USA
    Schizophr Res 107:13-21. 2009
    ..A major challenge, however, is how to estimate the individual responses to treatments. For this purpose, we propose a systematic method that condenses all information collected during the trials in an optimal, empirical fashion...
  12. ncbi False discoveries and models for gene discovery
    Edwin J C G van den Oord
    Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298 0126, USA
    Trends Genet 19:537-42. 2003
    ..This raises the question of whether current models for gene discovery are shaped excessively by a fear of false discoveries...
  13. ncbi Genomewide association study of movement-related adverse antipsychotic effects
    Karolina Aberg
    Center for Biomarker Research and Personalized Medicine, School of Pharmacy, Medical College of Virginia of Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia 23298, USA
    Biol Psychiatry 67:279-82. 2010
    ..Understanding individual differences in the development of extrapyramidal side effects (EPS) as a response to antipsychotic therapy is essential to individualize treatment...
  14. ncbi MethylPCA: a toolkit to control for confounders in methylome-wide association studies
    Wenan Chen
    Department of Biostatistics, School of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA
    BMC Bioinformatics 14:74. 2013
    ..This approach is, however, computationally very challenging due to the extremely large number of methylation sites in the human genome...
  15. ncbi Extensions to the modeling of initiation and progression: applications to substance use and abuse
    Michael C Neale
    Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, 980126, Richmond, VA, 23298 0126, USA
    Behav Genet 36:507-24. 2006
    ..Other suitable applications include the relationship between symptoms and diagnosis, such as fears and the progression to phobia...
  16. ncbi The Irish Affected Sib Pair Study of Alcohol Dependence: study methodology and validation of diagnosis by interview and family history
    Carol A Prescott
    Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Department of Psychiatry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298, USA
    Alcohol Clin Exp Res 29:417-29. 2005
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  17. ncbi Model-based gene selection shows engrailed 1 is associated with antipsychotic response
    Bradley Todd Webb
    Center for Biomarker Research and Personalized Medicine, Department of Pharmacy, Medical College of Virginia Campus, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298, USA
    Pharmacogenet Genomics 18:751-9. 2008
    ..We sought to find genes that may influence treatment response in a less biased manner, after integrating heterogeneous data sources related to schizophrenia...
  18. ncbi The relation between eating disorders and components of perfectionism
    Cynthia M Bulik
    Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Department of Psychiatry, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
    Am J Psychiatry 160:366-8. 2003
    ..The authors' goal was to explore the relation between perfectionism and psychopathology, including eating disorders...
  19. ncbi Medical and psychiatric morbidity in obese women with and without binge eating
    Cynthia M Bulik
    Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Department of Psychiatry, Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, P O Box 980126, Richmond, VA 23298 0126, USA
    Int J Eat Disord 32:72-8. 2002
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  20. ncbi Nonpaternity in linkage studies of extremely discordant sib pairs
    Michael C Neale
    Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298 0126, USA
    Am J Hum Genet 70:526-9. 2002
    ..The proportion in discordant pairs may be much higher. The present article explores this potential inflation as a function of the resemblance of sib pairs and the criteria for discordance used for selection...
  21. ncbi Causes and recovery in anorexia nervosa: the patient's perspective
    Federica Tozzi
    Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia 23298-0126, USA
    Int J Eat Disord 33:143-54. 2003
    ..The results underscore the importance of interpersonal factors in recovery from anorexia nervosa and suggest that attention to this area in treatment may be beneficial...
  22. ncbi Haplotypes spanning SPEC2, PDZ-GEF2 and ACSL6 genes are associated with schizophrenia
    Xiangning Chen
    Department of Psychiatry and Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavior Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richimond, VA 23298, USA
    Hum Mol Genet 15:3329-42. 2006
    ..However, due to the extended high LD in this region, we were unable to distinguish whether the association signals came from one or more of these genes...
  23. ncbi MBD-seq as a cost-effective approach for methylome-wide association studies: demonstration in 1500 case--control samples
    Karolina A Aberg
    Center for Biomarker Research and Personalized Medicine, School of Pharmacy, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298, USA
    Epigenomics 4:605-21. 2012
    ..We studied the use of methyl-CpG binding domain (MBD) protein-enriched genome sequencing (MBD-seq) as a cost-effective screening tool for methylome-wide association studies (MWAS)...
  24. ncbi Genome-wide pharmacogenomic study of neurocognition as an indicator of antipsychotic treatment response in schizophrenia
    Joseph L McClay
    Center for Biomarker Research and Personalized Medicine, School of Pharmacy, Medical College of Virginia Campus, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298 0533, USA
    Neuropsychopharmacology 36:616-26. 2011
    ..This study has generated several novel candidate genes for antipsychotic response. However, our findings will require replication and functional validation. To facilitate replication efforts, we provide all GWAS p-values for download...
  25. ncbi The subtypes of major depression in a twin registry
    Patrick F Sullivan
    Virginia Commonwealth University, Department of Psychiatry, Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, P O Box 980126, Richmond VA 23298 0126, USA
    J Affect Disord 68:273-84. 2002
    ..The subtypes of major depression (MD) remain incompletely understood. While there is consensus about the existence of MD with 'typical' vegetative features, further data are required to evaluate the existence of MD with atypical features...
  26. ncbi Twin analyses of fatigue
    Ellen Schur
    1 Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, USA
    Twin Res Hum Genet 10:729-33. 2007
    ..About half the variance for both prolonged and chronic fatigue in males was due to genetic effects, and half due to individual-specific environmental effects. For females, most variance was due to individual environmental effects...
  27. ncbi The genetics of anorexia nervosa
    Cynthia M Bulik
    Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
    Annu Rev Nutr 27:263-75. 2007
    ..With these bodies of literature as a starting point, we evaluate critically the current state of research on molecular genetic studies of anorexia nervosa and provide guidance for future research...
  28. ncbi Genetic and phenotypic stability of measures of neuroticism over 22 years
    Naomi R Wray
    Genetic Epidermology, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Australia
    Twin Res Hum Genet 10:695-702. 2007
    ..33 for a single measure to .43 for mean score because of the reduction in the estimate of the environmental variance, and this will increase power in genetic linkage or association studies of neuroticism...
  29. ncbi Irritable bowel syndrome: a co-twin control analysis
    Mary K Wojczynski
    Department of Biostatistics, Section on Statistical Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
    Am J Gastroenterol 102:2220-9. 2007
    ..Therefore, we aimed to examine if there is a genetic component to the co-occurrence of MDD and IBS in participants from the population-based Swedish Twin Registry...
  30. ncbi AKT1 and neurocognition in schizophrenia
    Andrea Poyastro Pinheiro
    Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA
    Aust N Z J Psychiatry 41:169-77. 2007
    ..Therefore, the association of genetic variation in AKT1 with neurocognition was investigated in patients with schizophrenia...
  31. ncbi Simulating association studies: a data-based resampling method for candidate regions or whole genome scans
    Fred A Wright
    Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
    Bioinformatics 23:2581-8. 2007
    ..Improvements in study design and analytic techniques will require the simulation of datasets with realistic patterns of linkage disequilibrium and allele frequencies for typed SNPs...
  32. ncbi Feeling bad in more ways than one: comorbidity patterns of medically unexplained and psychiatric conditions
    Ellen A Schur
    Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA
    J Gen Intern Med 22:818-21. 2007
    ....
  33. ncbi Ethnic stratification of the association of RGS4 variants with antipsychotic treatment response in schizophrenia
    Daniel B Campbell
    Department of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37232, USA
    Biol Psychiatry 63:32-41. 2008
    ..The central role of RGS4 in regulating signaling via Gi/o coupled neurotransmitter receptors led us to hypothesize that there may be RGS4 genotypes predictive of specific disease phenotypes and antipsychotic treatment responses...
  34. ncbi Genomewide linkage survey of nicotine dependence phenotypes
    Patrick F Sullivan
    Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7264, USA
    Drug Alcohol Depend 93:210-6. 2008
    ..We sought to identify genomic regions that might contain etiologically-relevant loci using genomewide univariate and bivariate linkage analyses...
  35. ncbi Current developments in the genetics of autism: from phenome to genome
    Molly Losh
    Department of Allied Health Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7190, USA
    J Neuropathol Exp Neurol 67:829-37. 2008
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  36. ncbi Multipoint and single point non-parametric linkage analysis with imperfect data
    Patrick F Sullivan
    Departments of Genetics and Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599 7264, USA
    Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 121:89-94. 2003
    ..The absence of parental genotypes in the presence of 1% genotype error led to marked degradation of linkage signal, particularly for multipoint analyses...
  37. ncbi Rare chromosomal deletions and duplications increase risk of schizophrenia
    Jennifer L Stone
    Nature 455:237-41. 2008
    ..Our results provide strong support for a model of schizophrenia pathogenesis that includes the effects of multiple rare structural variants, both genome-wide and at specific loci...
  38. ncbi Genome-wide linkage analysis of multiple measures of neuroticism of 2 large cohorts from Australia and the Netherlands
    Naomi R Wray
    Department of Genetic Epidemiology, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, 300 Herston Rd, Brisbane, Australia 4029
    Arch Gen Psychiatry 65:649-58. 2008
    ..Studying this personality dimension can give insights into the etiology of these important psychiatric disorders...
  39. ncbi Association of ADH and ALDH genes with alcohol dependence in the Irish Affected Sib Pair Study of alcohol dependence (IASPSAD) sample
    Po Hsiu Kuo
    Institute of Clinical Medicine, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital 138, National Cheng Kung University, Sheng Li Road, Tainan 704, Taiwan
    Alcohol Clin Exp Res 32:785-95. 2008
    ..The present study examined evidence for the association of alcohol metabolism genes with AD in the Irish Affected Sib Pair Study of alcohol dependence...
  40. ncbi The neuregulin 1 promoter polymorphism rs6994992 is not associated with chronic schizophrenia or neurocognition
    James J Crowley
    Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599 7264, USA
    Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 147:1298-300. 2008
    ..We were unable to replicate previous associations of rs6994992 with schizophrenia and, moreover, did not find significant associations with age of onset, an estimate of pre-morbid IQ, or neurocognition...
  41. ncbi Association of RGS2 and RGS5 variants with schizophrenia symptom severity
    Daniel B Campbell
    Department of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
    Schizophr Res 101:67-75. 2008
    ..3-1q31. Due to overlapping cellular functions and chromosomal proximity, we hypothesized that multiple RGS genes may contribute to schizophrenia severity and treatment responsiveness...
  42. ncbi Comment on a simple and improved correction for population stratification
    Seunggeun Lee
    Am J Hum Genet 82:524-6; author reply 526-8. 2008
  43. ncbi Genome-wide association of major depression: description of samples for the GAIN Major Depressive Disorder Study: NTR and NESDA biobank projects
    Dorret I Boomsma
    Netherlands Twin Register, Department of Biological Psychology, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
    Eur J Hum Genet 16:335-42. 2008
    ..Genome-wide association results are open-access and can be viewed at the dbGAP web portal (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov). Approved users can download the genotype and phenotype data, which have been made available as of 9 October 2007...
  44. ncbi An empirical study of the typology of bulimic symptoms in young Portuguese women
    Andrea Poyastro Pinheiro
    Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
    Int J Eat Disord 41:251-8. 2008
    ..To investigate whether clusters of bulimic symptoms exist in a community sample of young Portuguese women...
  45. ncbi Spurious genetic associations
    Patrick F Sullivan
    Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599 7264, USA
    Biol Psychiatry 61:1121-6. 2007
    ..I explored the capacity of association studies to produce false positive findings and the impact of various definitions of replication...
  46. ncbi Familial clustering of major depression and anxiety disorders in Australian and Dutch twins and siblings
    Christel M Middeldorp
    Department of Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
    Twin Res Hum Genet 8:609-15. 2005
    ..Furthermore, different genetic risk factors appear to contribute to the vulnerability for panic disorder and/or agoraphobia in men and women. No other sex differences were found...
  47. ncbi The prevalence of self-reported chronic fatigue in a U.S. twin registry
    Helena Furberg
    Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
    J Psychosom Res 59:283-90. 2005
    ..Given the debilitating consequences of fatiguing illnesses, the reasons for the female predominance and the earlier onset in women should receive increased research priority...
  48. ncbi Epidemiology of cancer-related fatigue in the Swedish twin registry
    Michael J Forlenza
    Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
    Cancer 104:2022-31. 2005
    ..CONCLUSIONS: A greater proportion of individuals who were listed in a national cancer registry reported experiencing fatigue compared with individuals in the general population...
  49. ncbi Twin analyses of chronic fatigue in a Swedish national sample
    Patrick F Sullivan
    Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7264, USA
    Psychol Med 35:1327-36. 2005
    ..Chronic fatigue has infrequently been studied in twins. Data from twin studies can inform clinical and research approaches to the management and etiology of human complex traits...
  50. ncbi The genetics of schizophrenia
    Patrick F Sullivan
    Department of Genetics, Psychiatry, and Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
    PLoS Med 2:e212. 2005
  51. ncbi Mania in the Swedish Twin Registry: criterion validity and prevalence
    Federico Soldani
    Department of Psychiatry, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
    Aust N Z J Psychiatry 39:235-43. 2005
    ..Assessment of a lifetime manic episode based on lay interviewer screening may yield misleading data...
  52. ncbi Evaluation of genetic substructure in the Irish Study of High-Density Schizophrenia Families
    Patrick F Sullivan
    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Genetics, 27599 7264, USA
    Psychiatr Genet 14:187-9. 2004
    ..We found no evidence for the presence of genetic substructure in this sample...
  53. ncbi Psychiatric and medical symptoms in binge eating in the absence of compensatory behaviors
    Ted Reichborn-Kjennerud
    Division of Epidemiology, The Norwegian Institute of Public Health, P O Box 4404 Nydalen, N 0403 Oslo, Norway
    Obes Res 12:1445-54. 2004
    ..To explore the extent to which binge eating in the absence of compensatory behaviors (BE) is associated with psychiatric and medical symptoms in men and women and to control for the independent effects of BMI...
  54. ncbi Bipolar II disorder: personality and outcome in two clinical samples
    Peter R Joyce
    Department of Psychological Medicine, Christchurch School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Christchurch, New Zealand
    Aust N Z J Psychiatry 38:433-8. 2004
    ..To compare the personality traits and disorders of patients with bipolar II disorder and major depression and to examine the impact on treatment outcome of a bipolar II diagnosis...
  55. ncbi Schizophrenia as a complex trait: evidence from a meta-analysis of twin studies
    Patrick F Sullivan
    Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 27599, USA
    Arch Gen Psychiatry 60:1187-92. 2003
    ....
  56. ncbi Temperament, childhood environment and psychopathology as risk factors for avoidant and borderline personality disorders
    Peter R Joyce
    Department of Psychological Medicine, Christchurch School of Medicine and Health Sciences, New Zealand
    Aust N Z J Psychiatry 37:756-64. 2003
    ..To evaluate childhood experiences (neglect and abuse), temperament and childhood and adolescent psychopathology as risk factors for avoidant and borderline personality disorders in depressed outpatients...
  57. ncbi Combined linkage and association analyses of the 124-bp allele of marker D2S2944 with anxiety, depression, neuroticism and major depression
    A Leo Beem
    Department of Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    Behav Genet 36:127-36. 2006
    ..However, the association occurred in the absence of evidence for linkage in this region on chromosome 2...
  58. ncbi Six months of treatment for depression: outcome and predictors of the course of illness
    Roger T Mulder
    Department of Psychological Medicine, Christchurch School of Medicine and Health Science, P O Box 4345, Christchurch, New Zealand
    Am J Psychiatry 163:95-100. 2006
    ..The goals of this study were to determine the course of illness in a cohort of depressed patients undergoing treatment for 6 months and whether there are clinically useful predictors of their course of illness...
  59. ncbi Anxiety and comorbid measures associated with PLXNA2
    Naomi R Wray
    Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Royal Brisbane Hospital, Brisbane, QLD 4029, Australia
    Arch Gen Psychiatry 64:318-26. 2007
    ..Common genetic liabilities have been reported between psychiatric and psychological measures, but few examples exist of common genetic variants...
  60. ncbi The Swedish Twin Registry in the third millennium: an update
    Paul Lichtenstein
    Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, SE 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
    Twin Res Hum Genet 9:875-82. 2006
    ..In particular, we describe recent efforts to screen all twins born between 1959 and 1985, and young twin pairs when they turn 9 and 12 years of age. For these studies, we present initial frequencies of common conditions and exposures...
  61. ncbi NCAM1 and neurocognition in schizophrenia
    Patrick F Sullivan
    Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599 7264, USA
    Biol Psychiatry 61:902-10. 2007
    ..Neural cell adhesion molecule 1 (NCAM1, aliases NCAM and CD56) may be a candidate gene for schizophrenia or for neurocognition in schizophrenia as supported by linkage and functional findings...
  62. ncbi Premorbid predictors of chronic fatigue
    Kenji Kato
    Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
    Arch Gen Psychiatry 63:1267-72. 2006
    ..These findings suggest plausible mechanisms for chronic fatiguing illness...
  63. ncbi Cigarettes and oral snuff use in Sweden: Prevalence and transitions
    Helena Furberg
    Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7264, USA
    Addiction 101:1509-15. 2006
    ..Once snus use was initiated, more men continued using snus rather than quit tobacco completely...
  64. ncbi [Genetics in eating disorders: extending the boundaries of research]
    Andrea Poyastro Pinheiro
    Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
    Rev Bras Psiquiatr 28:218-25. 2006
    ..To review the recent literature relevant to genetic research in eating disorders and to discuss unique issues which are crucial for the development of a genetic research project in eating disorders in Brazil...
  65. ncbi Empirical evaluation of the genetic similarity of samples from twin registries in Australia and the Netherlands using 359 STRP markers
    Patrick F Sullivan
    Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599 7264, United States of America
    Twin Res Hum Genet 9:600-2. 2006
    ..30% between the Australian and the Netherlands cohorts, a smaller value than between many European groups. We conclude that it is reasonable to combine the Australian and the Netherlands samples for joint genetic analyses...
  66. ncbi A dopamine transporter polymorphism is a risk factor for borderline personality disorder in depressed patients
    Peter R Joyce
    Department of Psychological Medicine, Christchurch School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Christchurch, New Zealand
    Psychol Med 36:807-13. 2006
    ..We were interested in differences in genetic and developmental risk factors between depressed patients with or without a co-morbid BPD...
  67. ncbi Prevalence, heritability, and prospective risk factors for anorexia nervosa
    Cynthia M Bulik
    Department of Psychiatry, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 27599, USA
    Arch Gen Psychiatry 63:305-12. 2006
    ..Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a serious mental illness with marked morbidity and mortality...
  68. ncbi Genetic, developmental and personality correlates of self-mutilation in depressed patients
    Peter R Joyce
    Department of Psychological Medicine, Christchurch School of Medicine and Health Sciences, New Zealand
    Aust N Z J Psychiatry 40:225-9. 2006
    ..To examine whether the T allele of G protein beta3 (GNbeta3) is associated with self-mutilation in depressed patients...
  69. ncbi TAMAL: an integrated approach to choosing SNPs for genetic studies of human complex traits
    Bradley M Hemminger
    School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA
    Bioinformatics 22:626-7. 2006
    ..AVAILABILITY: TAMAL is a platform independent web-based application available free of charge at http://neoref.ils.unc.edu/tamal. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: http://neoref.ils.unc.edu/tamal/...
  70. ncbi Melancholia: definitions, risk factors, personality, neuroendocrine markers and differential antidepressant response
    Peter R Joyce
    Department of Psychological Medicine, Christchurch School of Medicine and Health Sciences, New Zealand
    Aust N Z J Psychiatry 36:376-83. 2002
    ....