Large Scale Genetic Research on Neuropsychiatric Disorders in African Populations is Needed.

Journal: EBioMedicine

Volume: 2

Issue: 10

Year of Publication: 2016

Affiliated Institutions:  MRC/UCT Human Genetics Research Unit, Division of Human Genetics, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Observatory, Cape Town, South Africa ; Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town, Observatory, Cape Town, South Africa. Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town, Observatory, Cape Town, South Africa ; Medical Research Council (MRC) Unit on Anxiety and Stress Disorders, Cape Town, South Africa. Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA ; Stanley Center for Psychiatric Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA ; Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. Department of Mental Health, School of Medicine, Moi University College of Health Sciences, Eldoret, Kenya. Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa. Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda ; MRC/UVRI Uganda Research Unit on AIDS, Entebbe, Uganda. Medical Research Council (MRC) Unit on Anxiety and Stress Disorders, Cape Town, South Africa ; Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town, Observatory, Cape Town, South Africa. KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya ; Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. MRC/UCT Human Genetics Research Unit, Division of Human Genetics, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Observatory, Cape Town, South Africa. Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Stanley Center for Psychiatric Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA ; Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA ; Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit and Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.

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Citations :  Campbell M.C., Tishkoff S.A. African genetic diversity: implications for human demographic history, modern human origins, and complex disease mapping. Annu. Rev. Genomics Hum. Genet. 2008;9:403–433.
Authors :  18

Identifiers

Doi : 10.1016/j.ebiom.2015.10.002
SSN : 2352-3964

Study Population

Male,Female

Mesh Terms

Africa

Other Terms

Africa;Genetics;Neuropsychiatry;Psychiatry

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Publication Country

Netherlands