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Bipolar illness and schizophrenia as oligogenic diseases: implications for the future.
Biological psychiatry - 1 Feb 2000
Gershon E S
Abstract excerpt
As with most complex inheritance diseases, there are at this time no identified susceptibility genes for schizophrenia, bipolar manic-depressive illness, major depression, childhood autism, and other inherited brain disorders whose manifestations are primarily behavioral. Nonetheless, progress has occurred. Genetic epidemiologic research, based on reliable phenotypic definitions, has demonstrated the heritability...
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