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Support for the presence of bipolar disorder susceptibility loci on chromosome 5: heterogeneity in a homogeneous population in Quebec.
Progress in neuro-psychopharmacology & biological psychiatry - 1 Dec 2002
Shink Eric, Morissette Jean, Villeneuve André, Bordeleau Lise, Rochette Denis, Gagné Bernard, Laprise Carmen, Plante Micheline, Barden Nicholas
Abstract excerpt
A very large pedigree derived from the Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean region of Quebec contains a branch where a distal chromosome 5q haplotype seems to cosegregate with bipolar affective disorder. The authors used a diagnosis model where Bipolar Types I and II and schizoaffective disorder bipolar type were considered as affected, while single or recurrent episode major depression was classified as unknown and all the...
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