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Summary: The aim of this thesis consisted in investigating the influence of chosen SNPs of already known and replicated risk genes (TCF4 rs12966547, ZNF804A rs1344706 plus CACNA1C rs1006737, MIR137 rs1625579, MIR137 rs1198588, WWC rs17070145, SCN1A rs10930201 and MHC rs13194053) on single cognitive domains as e.g. executive functions, verbal memory or retentiveness in first-episode patients with only short antipsychotic treatment and chronically affected schizophrenia patients. This study was the first to compare the influence of the genes of interest between these different patient samples...