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Friday - Oct 14, 2005

09:30 AM - 11:30 AM Educational Session 1: Epigenetics
Chair: Dr. Arthur Petronis
America North - Educational Workshop

09:30 AM - 11:30 AM Educational Session 2: Family-Based
Association Tests: The FBAT and PBAT
Chair: Dr. Nan Laird and Dr. Christoph Lang
America South - Educational Workshop

09:30 AM - 12:00 PM Educational Session & Gene Workshop Registration
Essex Ballroom Foyer - Registration

11:30 AM - 01:00 PM Lunch on Own - Friday
America North - Ballroom Closed

11:30 AM - 01:00 PM Lunch on Own - Friday
America South - Ballroom Closed

11:45 AM - 12:45 PM Armchair Boston
Chair: Conference Organizer
Nausett - Business Meeting

12:00 PM - 02:30 PM ISPG Board Meeting
Defender Board Room - Business Meeting

12:45 PM - 01:45 PM Portuguese Investigators Meeting
Chair: Michele and Carlos Pato
Nausett - Business Meeting

01:00 PM - 03:00 PM Educational Session 3: Genetic Counseling
Chair: Dr. Christine Finn
America North - Educational Workshop

01:00 PM - 03:00 PM Educational Session 4:Family-Based Association Tests: The FBAT and PBAT
Chair: Dr. Nan Laird & Dr. Christoph Lang
America South - Educational Workshop

01:00 PM - 06:00 PM Conference Registration, Friday
Essex Ballroom Foyer - Registration

02:15 PM - 03:00 PM Gene Workshop Leader Meeting and Review
Chair: Dr. Nick Craddock
Nausett - Gene Workshops

02:45 PM - 04:00 PM Program Committee Meeting - Sardinia
Defender Board Room - Business Meeting

04:00 PM - 05:30 PM Gene WorkShop DISC1
Chair: John Rice
America North - Gene Workshops

04:00 PM - 05:30 PM Gene WorkShop SLC6A3 (DAT)
Chair: Cathy Barr, Co-Chair Gerome Breen
America Central - Gene Workshops

04:00 PM - 05:30 PM Gene WorkShop DAOA (formerly G72)
Chair: Markus Nöthen ,Co-Chairs: Thomas Schulze, Johannes Schumacher
America South - Gene Workshops

04:00 PM - 05:30 PM Gene WorkShop COMT
Chair: Michael ODonovan
St. Georges A - Gene Workshops

04:15 PM - 05:30 PM Program Committee Meeting - New York
Defender Board Room - Business Meeting

Saturday - Oct 15, 2005

07:30 AM - 05:30 PM Conference Registration, Saturday
Essex Ballroom Foyer - Registration

07:45 AM - 08:30 AM Arrival Coffee Break-Saturday
America Ballroom 1-2-3 - Coffee Break

08:30 AM - 08:45 AM WCPG 2005 Congress Welcome Remarks
America Ballroom 1-2-3 - Congress Event

08:45 AM - 09:45 AM Pasko Rakic: Genetic and Environmental Determinants of Neuronal Migration
Chair: Pasco Rakic
America Ballroom 1-2-3 - Plenary Session

09:45 AM - 10:00 AM Mid Morning Coffee Break - Saturday
America Ballroom 1-2-3 - Coffee Break

10:00 AM - 11:45 AM Avoiding False Candidate Gene Findings: Can We Set a Standard for the Field?
Chair: Steve Faraone, Lynn Delisi
America Ballroom 1-2-3 - Special Forum

11:45 AM - 01:15 PM Ballroom Closed for Lunch Break
America Ballroom 1-2-3 - Ballroom Closed

11:45 AM - 01:15 PM Poster Viewing - Lunch on Your Own
Essex Ballroom - Poster Viewing - Lunch on Own

11:45 AM - 01:15 PM Early Career Investigator Mentoring Program (ECIMP)
Chair: Michele Pato
Defender Board Room - Business Meeting

01:15 PM - 03:15 PM COS: Linkage Studies of Bipolar Affective Disorder
Chair: Homero Vallada, Maria Del Zompo
America North - Concurrent Oral Session

Bipolar Disorder Genome Screen, Conditioning on the Presence of Psychosis
M Hamshere, T Schulze, J Schumacher, et al
The Bipolar Affective Disorder (BPAD) Phenome Database: A Resource for Genetic Studies
F McMahon, B Phenome Group
Combined Analysis from Eleven Linkage Studies of Bipolar Disorder Provides Strong Evidence for Susceptibility Loci on Chromosomes 6q and 8q
M McQueen, B Devlin, S Faraone, et al

01:15 PM - 03:15 PM COS: Roles of Gene Expression in Understanding
Major Mental Disorders
Chair: MIng Tsuang
America Central - Concurrent Oral Session

A Novel Approach to Identifying Schizophrenia Biomarkers provides
Concurrent Validation of SELENBP1 Gene
S Glatt, I Everall, W Kremen, et al
Convergent Functional Genomics: Bipolar Disorders and Schizophrenia
H Le-Niculescu, J Tan, B Bertsch, et al
Gene Expression Profile of G Protein Coupled Receptor and Related
signaling Pathways in Mood Disorder
H Tomita, S Evans, J Li, et al
A Novel Approach to Identifying Schizophrenia Biomarkers provides Concurrent Validation of SELENBP1 Gene Up-Regulation in Blood and Brain
M Tsuang, S Glatt, I Everall, et al

01:15 PM - 03:15 PM COS: Novel Analytical Approaches to Gene
Discovery
Chair: Paul van Eerdewegh, Hung-Teh Kao
America South - Concurrent Oral Session

SNPs on Chips: A word of caution or the hidden genetic code in
expression arrays
M Burmeister, F Meng, E Sliwerska, et al
novoSNP: automated SNP and mutation discovery software
J Del-Favero, C Van Broeckhoven, P De Rijk
Clinical covariates in association analysis: sequential addition of cases
S Macgregor, P Holmans, N Craddock
A flexible framework for data mining and knowledge discovery in
psychiatric genetics
J Moore, J Gilbert, N Barney, et al
Streamlined analysis of pooled genotype data in SNP-based
association studies
V Moskvina, N Norton, N Williams, et al
A novel approach to the analysis of autism associated cytogenetic
regions of interest using gene interaction networks.
J Vorstman, L Franke, W Staal, et al

03:30 PM - 05:30 PM COS: Poster Forum Review
Chair: Timothy Crow, Michele Pato
St. Georges - Concurrent Oral Session

07:00 PM - 09:00 PM Welcome Reception - Skyline at the
Prudential Center
Social Event /Off Premise - Social Event

Sunday - Oct 16, 2005

07:30 AM - 08:15 AM Arrival Coffee Break - Sunday
America Ballroom 1-2-3 - Coffee Break

07:30 AM - 05:30 PM Conference Registration, Sunday
Essex Ballroom Foyer - Registration

08:15 AM - 09:15 AM David Bartel: Small RNAs that Repress Gene
Expression
America Ballroom 1-2-3 - Plenary Session

09:15 AM - 09:45 AM Mid Morning Coffee Break - Sunday
America Ballroom 1-2-3 - Coffee Break

09:45 AM - 11:45 AM Has Psychiatric Genetics Found Pathways to Discovery? A Plenary Debate
Chair: Steve Faraone, Lynn Delisi
America Ballroom 1-2-3 - Special Forum

11:45 AM - 01:15 PM Ballroom Closed for Lunch Break
America Ballroom 1-2-3 - Ballroom Closed

11:45 AM - 01:15 PM Poster Session & Author Presentations - Light Lunch Fare Provided
Essex Ballroom - Poster Session

11:45 AM - 01:30 PM Multicenter Genetic Studies of Schizophrenia (Douglas F. Levinson, M.D.)
Chair: Douglas F. Levinson, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry
Defender Board Room - Business Meeting

01:15 PM - 03:15 PM COS: Schizophrenia 1
Chair: Hai-Gwo Hwu, Carlos Pato
America North - Concurrent Oral Session

TBX1 – a VCFS candidate with relevance to Autism Spectrum disorder and Schizophrenia?
B Glaser, S Monks, A Gerrish, et al
Genome-Wide Scan for Schizophrenia in the Molecular Genetics of Schizophrenia (MGS1) Collaboration Pedigrees Suggests Linkage in 8p23.3-p12 and 11p11.2-q22.3. Results of Fine Mapping.
P Gejman, B Mowry, R Freedman, et al
Appraising Neurocognitive Endophenotypes for Schizophrenia
D Glahn, M Escamilla, G Burk, et al
A Linkage Disequilibrium Map of Chromosome 5q in a Large Han Chinese Schizophrenia Cohort
M Orr, H Salter, S Furlong, et al
Identification of genes involved in prepulse inhibition of startle, an endophenotype of schizophrenia, in mouse chromosome substitution strains
T Petryshen, A Kirby, G Rockwell, et al
Beyond Positional Cloning and Association: the search for schizophrenia liability variation in the DTNBP1 gene in the Irish Study of High Density Schizophrenia Families (ISHDSF).
B Riley, D Thiselton, V Vladimirov, et al
Identification of epistatic interactions in two examples: myelin related genes in bipolar disorder and GABAA receptor subunit genes in schizophrenia
P Sklar, R Perlis, J Fagerness, et al

01:15 PM - 03:15 PM COS: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): Genotypes, Phenotypes and
Chair: Florence Levy, Jan Buitelaar
America Central - Concurrent Oral Session

Endophenotypes for Molecular Genetic Studies of ADHD: Do Alternative Continuous Performance Task Error Indices Mediate and/or Moderate Previously Observed Associations between ADHD and DAT1 and DRD4?
I Gizer, I Waldman
A pharmaco-behavioral genetic study of the Dopamine transporter gene (SLC6A3) in children with attention deficit hyperactivity.
R Joober, N Grizenko, L Ben Amor, et al
Family based association analysis of a statistically derived quantitative trait for ADHD reveals an association in DRD4 with inattentive symptoms in ADHD individuals
J Lasky-Su, C Lange, N Laird, et al
Testing for Genetic Dissociation between Two Dopamine Genes and Measures of Executive Functions Relevant to ADHD
I Waldman, I Gizer
Collaborative Analysis of DRD4 and DAT Genotypes in Population-Defined ADHD Subtypes
R Todd, H Huang, S Smalley, et al
Analysis of Genetic Factors, Prenatal Smoking and Drinking Factors, and Their Interactions on Subtypes of ADHD
R Neuman, L Sun, R Todd

01:15 PM - 03:15 PM COS: Anxiety Disorder: Of Mice and Men
Chair: Richard Ebstein, Kathleen Merikangas
America South - Concurrent Oral Session

Extraversion and neuroticism as indices of genetic and environmental risk for social phobia
O Bienvenu, J Hettema, M Neale, et al
Transcriptome analysis in a murine model of anxiety overexpressing the neurotrophin-3 receptor (NTRK3)
M Guidi, Y Espinosa-Parrilla, A Amador-Arjona, et al
ASSOCIATION BETWEEN GLUTAMIC ACID DECARBOXYLASE (GAD) GENES AND MOOD AND ANXIETY DISORDERS
J Hettema, S An, M Neale, et al
Investigation of Rgs2 and Rgs13 Gene Polymorphisms in Human Panic Disorder
C Hohoff, A Jung, C Freitag, et al
Phenotypic effects of knocking out the 5-HT1A receptor depend on background strain
M van Bogaert, B Olivier
Genome-wide linkage scan of obsessive-compulsive disorder: significant evidence for susceptibility loci on chromosomes 3q21-27
Y Yao, J Samuels, v willour, et al
Association between Blutamic Acid Decarbozylase (GAD) Genes and Mood and Anxiety Disorders
J Hettema, S An, M Neale, et al

03:30 PM - 05:30 PM COS: Can Genetic Variation Be Imaged?
Chair: Jim Kennedy, Jonathan Pollack
America North - Concurrent Oral Session

DISC-1 Genetic Variation and Human Brain Development and Function
J Callicott
Neuroimaging-Based Phenotype Delineation of Non-Mendelian Diseases of the Brain as a Prelude to Genetic Association Studies
G Gasic, H Brieter
Imaging Genomics: Principles and Practices
D Weinberger

03:30 PM - 05:30 PM COS: Anxious / Depression: The Hunt for Genetic Influences
Chair: James Hudziak, Dorret Boomsa
America Central - Concurrent Oral Session

Twin Studies of Anxious/Depression in Childhood and Adolescence.
J Hudziak, C van Beijsterveldt, E Derks, et al
An update on replicate EDAC linkage studies of anxious depression in Australia and The Netherlands
N Martin, D Boomsma, A Birley, et al
Elucidating the Genes for the Susceptibility to Depression and Anxiety: Update on the GENESiS project
M Nash, P Huezo-Diaz, S Purcell, et al
sMRI in monozygotic twins discordant for anxious depression
D Boomsma, E de Geus, S Wolfensberger, et al
Molecular Consequences of Pathogenic CREB1 Promoter Mutation in RE-MDD
G Zubenko

03:30 PM - 05:30 PM COS: Genetics of Memory and Dyslexia
Chair: David Pauls, Catherine Barr
America South - Concurrent Oral Session

Association Study of Developmental Dyslexia and the genes for VMP, DCDC2, KIAA0319, TTRAP and THEM2 on Chromosome 6p
J Couto, K Wigg, Y Feng, et al
Genotypic Effects on Episodic Memory: Recent Experience from BDNF, G72, and GRM3
T Goldberg, M Egan, R Straub, et al
Genetic variability of human episodic memory
A Papassotiropoulos, D de Quervain
Association Analysis of Dyslexia in an Afrikaner Population
J Platko, J O' Rourke, J Birns, et al
Association between genotype at an exonic SNP in DISC1 and normal cognitive aging
P Thomson, S Harris, J Starr, et al
Strong Evidence that KIAA0319 is a Susceptibility Gene for Developmental Dyslexia on Chromosome 6p.
J Williams, N Cope, D Harold, et al

07:00 PM - 10:00 PM Congress Social Event - Odyssey Cruise Ship
Social Event /Off Premise - Social Event

Monday - Oct 17, 2005

07:30 AM - 08:15 AM Arrival Coffee Break - Monday
America Ballroom 1-2-3 - Coffee Break

07:30 AM - 05:30 PM Conference Registration, Monday
Essex Ballroom Foyer - Registration

08:15 AM - 09:15 AM Nora Volkow: Imaging the Addicted Brain
America Ballroom 1-2-3 - Plenary Session
Imaging the Addicted Brain
N Volkow

09:15 AM - 09:45 AM Mid Morning Coffee Break - Monday
America Ballroom 1-2-3 - Coffee Break

09:45 AM - 11:45 AM COS : Molecular Genetics of Human Cognition
Chair: Larry Seidman, Frank Middleton
America North - Concurrent Oral Session

Differential Effects of DISC1 and DTNBP1 Risk Genotypes on Cognition: New Evidence for Specificity.
K Burdick, B Funke, C Hodgkinson, et al
IL-10 RECEPTOR 1: ASSOCIATION STUDY IN MAJOR DEPRESSION
J Kindler, A Schosser, H Aschauer, et al
‘Generalist Genes’ and Mathematics
Y Kovas, N Harlaar, S Petrill, et al
The risk for Alzheimer’s disease is related to a cluster of genes involved in brain cholesterol metabolism
A Papassotiropoulos, M Wollmer, M Tsolaki, et al
ALTERED BRAIN ACTIVATION IN DORSOLATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX IN ADOLESCENTS AND YOUNG ADULTS AT GENETIC RISK FOR SCHIZOPHRENIA: AN FMRI STUDY OF WORKING MEMORY
L Seidman, H Thermenos, R Poldrack, et al

09:45 AM - 11:45 AM COS: Genetic Studies of Smoking and Co-Morbidity
Chair: Danielle Dick, Michael Lyons
America Central - Concurrent Oral Session

Linkage Findings from Independent Studies Suggest a Gene on Chromosome 2p with Pleiotropic Effects on Multiple Psychiatric Phenotypes
D Dick, G Dunn, L Bierut, et al
Genetic Vulnerability for Nicotine Dependence: Linkage Results from the NAG (Nicotine Addiction Genetics) Project
P Madden, S Saccone, M Pergadia, et al
GENETIC VULNERABILITY TO COMORBID ANXIETY ATTACK AND DSM-IV NICOTINE WITHDRAWAL IN AUSTRALIAN FAMLIES: THE NICOTINE ADDICTION GENETICS PROJECT (NAG)
M Pergadia, A Agrawal, S Saccone, et al
Genome-Wide Genetic Linkage Analysis of a Quantitative Trait in an Australian and Finnish Study of Nicotine Dependence
S Saccone, A Agrawal, M Pergadia, et al
Association of the Serotonin Transporter Gene with Nicotine Dependence
S Santangelo, G Papandonatos, J McCaffery, et al
Association of DNA polymorphisms in the synaptic vesicular amine transporter gene (SLC18A2) with alcohol- and nicotine dependence
D Wildenauer, M Knapp, P Franke, et al

09:45 AM - 11:45 AM COS: Frontiers in Statistical Methods
Chair: Laura Almasy, John Rice
America South - Concurrent Oral Session

Allelotyping over 10,000 SNPs using DNA pools and microarrays nominates four SNPs associated with mild mental impairment
L Butcher, E Meaburn, J Knight, et al
Critical Parameters For The Genetics Of Schizophrenia
P Lichtenstein, C Björk, C Hultman, et al
Minor genotyping error can result in substantial elevation in type I error rate in haplotype based case control analysis
V Moskvina, N Craddock, P Holmans, et al
Genome-wide association: practical application of current technology to overcome multiple testing
B Neale, S Cherny, P Sham
A gene-based approach to epistasis in large-scale association studies
S Purcell, J Smoller, M Daly, et al
The control of false discoveries in large scale genetic studies
E van den Oord, J Bukszar

11:45 AM - 01:15 PM Ballroom Closed for Lunch Break
America Ballroom 1-2-3 - Ballroom Closed

11:45 AM - 01:15 PM Poster Session & Author Presentations - Light Lunch Fare Provided
Essex Ballroom - Poster Session

01:15 PM - 03:15 PM COS: The Kraepelin Dichotomy - Dead or Alive?
Chair: Ming Tsuang, Peter McGuffin
America North - Concurrent Oral Session

Molecular Genetic Evidence for Overlap Between Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia
A Malhotra, K Burdick, B Funke, et al
The beginning of the end for the Kraepelinian dichotomy - response to Craddock & Owen.
T Crow
Genetic variation at or near COMT influences susceptibility to a phenotype characterized by the co-existence of marked features of mania and psychosis
N Craddock, R Raybould, E Green, et al
Variation at the DAOA/G30 locus influences susceptibility to major mood episodes but not psychosis in patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
N Williams, E Green, S Dwyer, et al

01:15 PM - 03:15 PM COS: Genetic Studies of Alcohol and Illicit Drug Use
Chair: Michael Lyons, Pamela Madden
America Central - Concurrent Oral Session

A Genome-wide Linkage Scan for Illicit Drug Phenotypes in Australian Adults from the Nicotine Addiction Genetics (NAG) Project
A Agrawal, M Pergadia, S Saccone, et al
SNPs at the brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) gene show association with opioid addiction
R de Cid, F Fonseca, M Bayés, et al
Longitudinal modelling of measures of peer group deviancy (PGD) and the genetic and environmental sources of covariance between PGD, drug use, abuse and dependence in adult male twins.
N Gillespie, C Gardener Jr, M Neale, et al
Whole genome linkage scan for alcohol consumption in a selected sibling sample
P Huezo-Diaz, M Nash, R Williamson, et al
Elucidating the Comorbid relationship between Panic Disorder and Alcohol Dependence in Vietnam Era Male Twins
M Grant, M Lyons, C Lehman, et al
Methamphetamine Differentially Regulates Immediate Early Genes in the Prefrontal Cortex of High as Compared to Low Responders
P Shilling, R Kuczenski, D Segal, et al

01:15 PM - 03:15 PM COS: Pharmacogenetics
Chair: Jurgen Del Favero, Anil Malhotra
America South - Concurrent Oral Session

A Multigene Neural Network Based Predictor of Lithium Response
J Kelsoe, R McKinney, T Barrett, et al
Association of the Serotonin Transporter and Other Candidates with Therapeutic Response to SSRI Antidepressants in the Kaiser Permanente Study on Genetics of Response to Antidepressants
C Schaefer, S Rowell, L Shen, et al
A gene expression study of clozapine compared to haloperidol and how these drugs interact with genes implicated in schizophrenia
M Rizig, H Gurling, A McQuillin, et al
Discovery of genetic markers associated with clozapine induced agranulocytosis
A Malhotra, M Athanasiou, C Reed, et al
Chronic Antipsychotic Administration Alters Messenger RNA Editing
M Sodhi, D Airey, E Sanders-Bush
Evidence that SSRI response in depression is influenced by a functional haplotype in HTR1B and the C-1019G SNP in HTR1A
S Villafuerte, K Vallabhaneni, E Young, et al

03:15 PM - 03:45 PM Mid Afternoon Break - Monday
America Ballroom 1-2-3 - Coffee Break

03:45 PM - 04:45 PM Eric Lander: Biology as Information: Genomics & Medicine
Chair: Eric Lander
America Ballroom 1-2-3 - Plenary Session

04:45 PM - 05:45 PM Membership Meeting
America Ballroom 1-2-3 - Congress Event

05:45 PM - 06:15 PM Award Program: Laura Almasy and Nigel Williams
America Ballroom 1-2-3 - Congress Event

06:15 PM - 06:45 PM Membership Wine and Cheese Reception
America Ballroom 1-2-3 - Congress Event

Tuesday - Oct 18, 2005

07:30 AM - 08:15 AM Arrival Coffee Break - Tuesday
America Ballroom 1-2-3 - Coffee Break

07:30 AM - 11:30 AM Conference Registration, Tuesday
Essex Ballroom Foyer - Registration

08:15 AM - 10:15 AM COS: Schizophrenia 2
Chair: Irving Gottesman, Ridha Joober
America North - Concurrent Oral Session

Combined approach of Microarray gene expression and Genetic association in Schizophrenia
K Chowdari, J Wood, D Campbell, et al
Evidence for association and interaction between G72 and DAAO markers in an Irish case-control schizophrenia sample
A Corvin, K McGhee, K Murphy, et al
Analysis of COMT, ProDH and ZDHHC8 risk variants does not provide evidence for a single or combined-synergistic risk effect of these genes to schizophrenia
B Glaser, V Moskvina, G Kirov, et al
GENES BEHIND COMPLEX DISEASE IN A SIMPLE POPULATION: SCHIZOPHRENIA SUSCEPTIBILITY GENES IN FINLAND
T Paunio, T Partonen, J Lönnqvist, et al
An animal model for psychosis
D Rujescu, J Genius, A Hartmann, et al

08:15 AM - 10:15 AM COS: Genetic Studies of Developmental Psychopathology
Chair: Anita Thapar, Richard Todd
America Central - Concurrent Oral Session

Chromosome 11-q24 region in Tourette Syndrome: Association and linkage disequilibrium study in the French Canadian population
A Díaz-Anzaldúa, J Rivière, M Dubé, et al
Association between the Dopamine D5 receptor (DRD5) marker and autism
R Ebstein, C Rosenberg, S Salomon, et al
The Identification of Novel Microdeletions and Microduplications Causing Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Using 1 Mb Array-Comparative Genomic Hybridization (array-CGH)
M Koochek, C Harvard, Y Qiao, et al
The extent of genetic influences on performance on reaction time, inhibition and ‘delay aversion’ tasks
J Kuntsi, G Swinard, H Rogers, et al
A genome-wide scan of Gilles de la Tourette syndrome.
D Pauls, Tourette, Syndrome, et al

08:15 AM - 10:15 AM COS: Association Studies of Bipolar Affective Disorder
Chair: Markus Nothen, Michele Pato
America South - Concurrent Oral Session

Positional cloning, association analysis, and expression studies provide convergent evidence that the cadherin gene FAT contains a bipolar disorder susceptibility allele.
I Blair, A Chetcuti, R Badenhop, et al
Association of GRIK2 haplotypes with bipolar affective disorder and potential interaction between GRIK2 and alpha-laminins
S Buervenich, N Akula, T Schulze, et al
High Density SNP Association study of 22q13 Identifies CACGN2 as a Susceptibility Locus for Bipolar Disorder in Two Independent Samples
S Liang, T Shekhtman, M Gaucher, et al
Variations in the vesicular monoamine transporter 1 gene (VMAT1 / SLC18A1) are associated with bipolar I disorder
F Lohoff, J Dahl, T Ferraro, et al
Further investigation of association between bipolar disorder and BDNF: characterization of population genetic structure and haplotype association studies in four patient samples
T Petryshen, P Sabeti, K Aldinger, et al
Further evidence that the DAOA(G72) gene is a risk factor for bipolar disorder: Results from a family based association study
D Müller, T Sicard, N King, et al

10:15 AM - 10:45 AM Mid Morning Coffee Break - Tuesday
America Ballroom 1-2-3 - Coffee Break

10:45 AM - 11:00 AM Volunteer Recognition
America Ballroom 1-2-3 - Congress Event

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Edward Scolnick:Are there Sequence Defined Risk Genes for Schizophrenia or Bipol
America Ballroom 1-2-3 - Plenary Session

12:00 PM - 01:00 PM Summary of Gene Workshops for COMT, DAOA(G72), DISC1 and SLC6A3 (DAT): findings
Chair: Nick Craddock
America Ballroom 1-2-3 - Plenary Session

01:00 PM - 01:15 PM WCPG 2005 Congress Closing Remarks
America Ballroom 1-2-3 - Congress Event