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    • 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 ...

    • Caracterización de un grupo de pacientes con esquizofrenia en el Valle Central de Costa Rica 

      Montero Vega, Ana Patricia; Dassori, Albana; Escamilla, Michael; Raventós Vorst, Henriette; Contreras Rojas, Javier (AMC, vol 50 (3), julio-setiembre 2008, 2008)
      La esquizofrenia es una enfermedad crónica con importantes repercusiones sociales que afecta al 1% de la población mundial. Se describe las características de la esquizofrenia en una muestra de pacientes del Valle Central ...

    • Diagnosis of Schizophrenia in Latino Populations. A Comparison of Direct Interview and Consensus Based Multi-Source Methods 

      Dassori, Albana; Medina, Rolando; Ontiveros Sánchez de la Barquera, Jose Alfonso; Nicolini Sánchez, José Humberto; Muñoz, Rodrigo; Escamilla, Michael; Contreras Rojas, Javier; Raventós Vorst, Henriette (Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 2009;197: 530–535, 2009-07)
      We determined the rates of agreement between diagnoses, using the Diagnostic Interview for Genetic Studies (DIGS) and diagnoses arrived at, using additional sources of information, to establish whether there are differences ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • Resultados de la categorización de una muestra de pacientes con diagnóstico de egreso de esquizofrenia 

      Montero Vega, Ana Patricia; Balderas, Teresa; Lizano, Arturo; Armas, Regina; Medina, Rolando; Contreras, Salvador; Dassori, Albana; Katz, Israel; Levinson, Doug; Jacques, Jean; Escamilla, Michael; Pereira Castro, Mariana; Raventós Vorst, Henriette (Acta Médica Costarricense, abril-junio 2002, vol 44 (2), 2002-04)
      La esquizofrenia es una enfermedad que afecta aproximadamente al 1% de la población mundial. Es una de las enfermedades psiquiátricas más debilitantes con un alto costo económico, social, familiar y personal. En Costa ...

    • 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 ...

    • The serotonin transporter 5-HTTPR polymorphism is associated with current and lifetime depression in persons with chronic psychotic disorders 

      Contreras Rojas, Javier; Camarena, Beatriz; Glahn, David C.; Dassori, Albana; Medina, Rolando; Contreras, Salvador; Ramírez, M.; Armas, Regina; Muñoz, Rodrigo; Mendoza Rodríguez, Ricardo; Raventós Vorst, Henriette; Ontiveros Sánchez de la Barquera, Jose Alfonso; Nicolini Sánchez, José Humberto; Palmer, R.; Escamilla, Michael; Hare, L. (Acta Psychiatr Scand 2009: 119: 117–127, 2009-01-11)
      Objective: Variation in the serotonin transporter gene (SLC6A4) promoter region has been shown to influence depression in persons who have been exposed to a number of stressful life events. Method: We evaluated whether ...