able to take advantage of discoveries being made in these areas. The endophenotype then can inform us about the function of those specific markers. For instance, two recently published studies examined a number of these markers now known to be related to schizophrenia as well as markers related to other disorders, and each reported an association between a marker and P300 amplitude that survived correction for multiple testing (Del Re et al., 2014; Hall et al., 2014). If replicated, these findings may ultimately shed light on mechanisms governing poor attention allocation and working memory in schizophrenia.