DISC1 and schizophrenia: Following linkage analysis and association studies demonstrated that DISC1 is significantly associated with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and major depression (Ekelund et al., 2001, 2004; Macgregor et al., 2004; Hamshere et al., 2005; Hashimoto et al., 2006; Liu et al., 2006; Thomson et al., 2014), although it has not been confirmed by a recent mega-analysis of GWASs (Schizophrenia Working Group of the Psychiztric Genomics Consortium, 2014).