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William G. Iacono, PhD
Department of Psychology University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN 55455

Anne S. Bassett, MD
New York State Psychiatric Institute 722 W 168th St New York, NY 10032

Barry D. Jones, MD
Department of Psychiatry Royal Ottawa Hospital 1145 Carling Ave Ottawa, Ontario Canada KlZ 7K4

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1988;45(12):1140-1141.

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To the Editor.—

In their recent article, Holzman et al¹ showed that schizophrenia and deviant smooth-pursuit eye tracking may both be transmitted by an autosomal dominant gene. These investigators concluded from their findings that family studies in which eye tracking as well as manifest schizophrenia and related disorders are assessed may enhance the productivity of molecular genetic investigations of schizophrenia. Herein we present data from a case study that are consistent with this view.

Report of Cases.—

Recently, Bassett et al² identified a family in which the proband and his maternal uncle had partial trisomy of chromosome 5 and schizophrenia. The proband's mother had a balanced translocation in which genetic material deleted from chromosome 5 was inserted into chromosome 1. The mother was otherwise normal, as were the proband's other firstand second-degree relatives who had normal karyotypes. These findings suggest that genes in the trisomic area of chromosome 5 . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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