**Author details**

Adriana Díaz-Anzaldúa1 , Rigoberto Rosendo Gutiérrez2 , Alejandro Díaz-Anzaldúa3 and José Octavio Hernández Lagunas1

1 Department of Genetics, National Institute of Psychiatry "Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz", Mexico City, Mexico

2 Periferic Unit of Research in Population Genomics Applied to Health, National Institute of Genomics, Mexico City, Mexico

3 Outpatient Clinic, National Institute of Psychiatry "Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz", Mexico City, Mexico

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