Molecular Neurobiology of Mental Illness (MNMI)

Project Number

Convenors


Steering Committee chaired by Dr. Jacques Mallet (LGN, CNRS, Paris, France).

14 contributing ESF Member Organisations.

 

 

Abstract


First an ESF Network (1987-89), this Programme co-ordinates the mapping of the whole of the human genome for linkage to schizophrenia and affective disorder, to identify the genes conferring susceptibility to these illnesses.

Duration

The Programme was launched in 1990 for a period of five years and after positive assessment was granted a two year extension in November 1994 (end of the Programme: 31 December 1996)