Matthysse S, Levy DL, Kinney D, Deutsch C, Lajonchere C, Yurgelun-Todd D, Woods B, Holzman PS. Gene expression in mental illness: a navigation chart to future progress.
J Psychiatr Res 1992;
26:461-73. [PMID:
1491362 DOI:
10.1016/0022-3956(92)90046-q]
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Abstract
An initial course in disentangling complex causal interactions in psychiatric illnesses, we suggest, is finding co-familial traits with classical Mendelian segregation. Starting with non-Mendelian traits, three methods can be used to find underlying Mendelian phenotypes. (1) Statistically-inferred latent traits, with more nearly Mendelian transmission than the measures from which they are derived, can serve as pointers to concrete Mendelian phenotypes. (2) Linkage of non-Mendelian traits to genetic markers, if it can be established, can be followed by searching for phenotypes that discriminate carriers from non-carriers of the imputed trait gene. (3) In the long run, the most successful method is likely to be direct refinement of non-Mendelian behavioral and physiological traits into more fundamental components.
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