Parsing the Comorbidity Between Bipolar Disorder and Anxiety Disorders: A Familial Risk Analysis

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BACKGROUND: A growing literature suggests that anxiety disorders (ANX) co-occur with bipolar disorder (BPD), but the nature of this overlap is unknown. Thus, we investigated the familial association between BPD and ANX among the first-degree relatives of children with BPD with and without comorbid ANX. METHODS: We compared relatives of four proband groups defined by the presence or absence of BPD and ANX in the...

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