Molecular genetics and the epidemiology of bipolar disorder.

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The methodologies of epidemiology and molecular genetics are complementary approaches to identifying risk factors in bipolar disorder. Genetic linkage studies have revealed several chromosomal loci likely to contain genes that increase the risk of bipolar disorder, but major uncertainties remain about the mode of inheritance of the condition and the definition of the phenotype. Epidemiological findings have...

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