Schizophrenia and the affective disorders, here comprising bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder, are psychiatric illnesses that lead to significant morbidity and mortality worldwide. Whilst
Objectives The SLCO6A1 gene belongs to a superfamily of genes which is known to be a solute carrier family of OATPs (SLCO). The SLCO6A1 gene encodes OATP6A1 protein in humans. A previous genome-wide a
Despite the high heritability of schizophrenia, extensive genome-wide association studies generally have not found individual variants or genes that might in of themselves predispose strongly to schiz