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Further genotyping and association analyses of a set of SNPs spanning the entire genomic region of <jats:italic>ZNF804A</jats:italic> (520 kb) identified no association except for SNP rs359895 (<jats:italic>P</jats:italic> = 7.8 × 10<jats:sup>−5</jats:sup>, N = 5,172), a newly reported risk SNP located in the <jats:italic>ZNF804A</jats:italic> promoter region with functional implications. This suggests that <jats:italic>ZNF804A</jats:italic> may also contribute to schizophrenia susceptibility in Asians although the risk SNP is different from that in Europeans, and it was supported by the detected up‐regulation of <jats:italic>ZNF804A</jats:italic> mRNA expression in the blood cells of Chinese schizophrenia patients compared with normal controls (<jats:italic>P</jats:italic> = 0.004). Additionally, the linkage disequilibrium (LD) structure analyses using data from HapMap indicated distinct LD blocks across <jats:italic>ZNF804A</jats:italic> between Chinese and Europeans, which may explain the different association patterns between them, and also highlight the compounding difficulty of genetic studies of complex diseases like schizophrenia when studying multiple ethnic populations. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.</jats:p>","journal":"American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric 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