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Chunk #28 — Methods — Macaque RNA-seq (the “CMC_Macaque” study)

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CommonMind Consortium provides transcriptomic and epigenomic data for Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder.
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Subjects from a cohort of N = 34 Rhesus macaques born between 1995 and 2004 were randomly selected for four treatment groups: 7 for high doses of haloperidol (4 mg/kg/d), 10 low doses of haloperidol (0.14 mg/kg/d), 9 clozapine (5.2 mg/kg/d), and 8 vehicle (Table 2). Monkeys were administered the antipsychotic drugs orally for six months, mixed with powdered sugar and given in peanut butter or fruit treats. Monkeys were raised at Wake Forest University and received standard enrichment, including social enrichment, human interaction, variety in diet, and age-appropriate objects as dictated by the Animal Welfare Act and the Emory University and Wake Forest School of Medicine policies for nonhuman primate environmental enrichment. Animal care procedures strictly followed the National Institutes of Health Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals and were approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees of Emory University and Wake Forest School of Medicine. Monkeys were killed for analysis and necropsied on average at age 6.2 years (range between 3.6 and 8.2 years old) after the six-month treatment protocol by an overdose