Emerging research groups studying Brazilian psychiatric genetics

Emerging research groups studying Brazilian psychiatric genetics.

A review of psychiatric genetics research in the Brazilian population.

OBJECTIVE AND METHOD A large increase in the number of Brazilian studies on psychiatric genetics has been observed in the 1970's since the first publications conducted by a group of researchers in Brazil. Here we reviewed the literature and evaluated the advantages and difficulties of psychiatric genetic studies in the Brazilian population. CONCLUSION The Brazilian population is one of the mo...

Research in Psychiatric Genetics in India1

Mr. Chairman, Respected Colleagues, Ladies and Gentlemen, I feel specially privileged to be selected for the First T I L A K O R A T I O N on Biological Psychiatry by the Indian Psychiatric Socic;y. I a m deeply aware of the honour and thank you all for the same. The present oration is devoted to young age in more than one way. I t is notable that a personal loss of the family of Prof. A. Venko...

Principles of Psychiatric Genetics

Genetic epidemiology The pioneering work of Böök, Sjögren, Angst, Perris, and others in Europe and Kallman, Heston, Rosenthal, Wender, and Kety in the United States firmly established the important role of genetic susceptibility factors in psychiatric disorders. Heston’s [1] original finding that adult offspring of hospitalized schizophrenic mothers had significantly higher rates of schizophren...

Emerging genetics of COPD

Since the discovery of alpha-1 antitrypsin in the early 1960s, several new genes have been suggested to play a role in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) pathogenesis. Yet, in spite of those advances, much about the genetic basis of COPD still remains to be discovered. Unbiased approaches, such as genome-wide association (GWA) studies, are critical to identify genes and pathways and t...