Article
Linkage analysis in psychiatric disorders: the emerging picture.
Annual review of genomics and human genetics - 1 Jan 2002
Sklar Pamela
Abstract excerpt
Gene finding in genetically complex diseases has been difficult as a result of many factors that have diagnostic and methodologic considerations. For bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, numerous family, twin, and adoption studies have identified a strong genetic component to these behavioral psychiatric disorders. Despite difficulties that include diagnostic differences between sample populations and the lack of...
Topics
- Bipolar Disorder
- Genetic Linkage
- Humans
- Linkage Disequilibrium
- Mental Disorders
- Phenotype
- Schizophrenia