• A schizophrenia gene locus on chromosome 17q21 in a new set of families of mexican and central american ancestry: evidence from the NIMH genetics of schizophrenia in latino populations study 

      Escamilla, Michael; Hare, Elizabeth; Dassori, Albana; Peralta, Juan Manuel; Ontiveros, Humberto; Nicolini Sánchez, José Humberto; Medina, Rolando; Mendoza Rodríguez, Ricardo; Muñoz, Rodrigo; Almasy, Laura; Raventós Vorst, Henriette; Jerez, Álvaro (Am J Psychiatry 2009;166:442-449, 2009-02-02)
      The present study investigated a new set of families of Latin American ancestry in order to detect the location of genes predisposing to schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders. Method: A genome-wide scan was performed ...
    • Family-based association of an ANK3 haplotype with bipolar disorder in Latino populations 

      Zavala, Juan Manuel; Dassori, Albana; Escamilla, Michael; Raventós Vorst, Henriette; Nicolini Sánchez, José Humberto; Ontiveros Sánchez de la Barquera, Jose Alfonso; Jerez, Álvaro; Contreras Rojas, Javier; Ramírez, Mercedes; Contreras, Salvador; Flores, Deborah; Leach, Robin J.; Armas, Regina; González, S. D. (Translational Psychiatry (2013) 3, e265, 2013-05-28)
      Some of the most consistent findings have been in variants located in the ANK3 (ankyrin-G) gene located on chromosome 10q. Schultz et al.4 found that BP risk alleles in ANK3, rs9804190 and rs10994336, contributed ...
    • Genetic structure of personality factors and bipolar disorder in families segregating bipolar disorder 

      Hare, Elizabeth; Contreras Rojas, Javier; Flores, Deborah; Jerez, Álvaro; Nicolini Sánchez, José Humberto; Ontiveros Sánchez de la Barquera, Jose Alfonso; Almasy, Laura; Escamilla, Michael; Raventós Vorst, Henriette (Journal of Affective Disorders xxx (2011) xxx–xxx, 2011)
      Bipolar disorder (BPD) has been associated with variations in personality dimensions, but the nature of this relationship has been unclear. Inthis study, theheritabilities of BPDandtheBig Five personality factors and the ...
    • Heritability of Age of Onset of Psychosis in Schizophrenia 

      Hare, Elizabeth; Glahn, David C.; Dassori, Albana; Raventós Vorst, Henriette; Nicolini Sánchez, José Humberto; Ontiveros Sánchez de la Barquera, Jose Alfonso; Medina, Rolando; Mendoza Rodríguez, Ricardo; Jerez, Álvaro; Muñoz, Rodrigo; Almasy, Laura; Escamilla, Michael (AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL GENETICS PART B, 2009-04)
      Schizophrenia is a genetically complex illness with heterogeneous clinical presentation, including variable age ofonset. In this study, the heritability, or proportion of variation in age of onset of psychotic symptoms due ...
    • Suggestive evidence for association between L-type voltage-gated calcium channel (CACNA1C) gene haplotypes and bipolar disorder in latinos: a family-based association study 

      Xu, Chun; Zavala, Juan Manuel; Armas, Regina; Contreras, Salvador; Dassori, Albana; Ontiveros Sánchez de la Barquera, Jose Alfonso; Nicolini Sánchez, José Humberto; Escamilla, Michael; Ramírez, Mercedes; Flores, Deborah; Jerez, Álvaro; Raventós Vorst, Henriette; González, Suzanne; Leach, Robin J. (Bipolar Disorders 2013: 15: 206–214, 2013-02-25)
      Objectives: Through recent genome-wide association studies (GWASs), several groups have reported significant association between variants in the calcium channel, voltage-dependent, L-type, alpha 1C subunit (CACNA1C) and ...
    • The epsin 4 gene is associated with psychotic disorders in families of Latin American origin 

      Escamilla, Michael; Dae Lee, Byung; Ontiveros Sánchez de la Barquera, Jose Alfonso; Nicolini Sánchez, José Humberto; Mendoza Rodríguez, Ricardo; Muñoz, Rodrigo; Medina, Rolando; Walss Bass, Consuelo; Armas, Regina; Contreras, Salvador; Dassori, Albana; Raventós Vorst, Henriette; Jerez, Álvaro; Figueroa, Andrés; Ramírez, Mercedes (Schizophrenia Research vol. 106, num 2 (2008) 253–257, 2008-10-20)
      This study attempted to replicate evidence for association of the Epsin 4 gene (which encodes enthoprotin, a protein involved in vesicular transport) to schizophrenia in a new sample of families segregating schizophrenia ...