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Studies using the Continuous Performance Task (CPT) have shown that the d' signal detection component of CPT performance has a heritability among normal subjects of 0.49 [ 22 ] . The Span of Apprehension task (SPAN), a visual search task, has been shown to have an heritability among normal subjects of 0.65 [ 23 ] and the P/N ratio of the Spontaneous Selective Attention Task (SSAT) was shown to have an heritability among normal subjects of 0.41 [ 24 ] . Twin studies using discordant twins affected with schizophrenia show that spatial working memory, divided attention, choice reaction time and selective attention [ 25 ] and attentional set-shifting [ 26 ] are underlain by inherited factors.
The answer, paranoid schizophrenia, is expected to provide Weston's insanity defense.
For example, a widely studied functional genetic marker in COMT (rs4680) is probably not associated with schizophrenia [20], but nearby genetic markers assessed in a minority of studies may be [21].
There are many important assumptions and methodological issues with these studies [8]; however, genetic epidemiological studies of schizophrenia have yielded a remarkably consistent set of findings, as summarized in Table 1 [9, 10].
These “discovery science” approaches have been applied to schizophrenia, and are summarized in Figure 2. The 27 samples shown here included from one to 294 multiplex pedigrees (see Glossary) (median 34) containing 32 to 669 (median 101) individuals affected with a narrow definition of schizophrenia.
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