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[Hunting the susceptibility gene for psychosis: a study of a family overloaded with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder].
Turk psikiyatri dergisi = Turkish journal of psychiatry - 1 Jan 2003
Ozer Suzan, Ulusoy Semra, Okur Hamza, Göğüş Ahmet, Akarsu Nurten A, Uluşahin Aylin
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: It is a long-standing debate whether schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are separate clinical entities or different poles on a spectrum. In this paper we present a family overloaded with schizophrenia, and schizoaffective, bipolar and unipolar disorders. Common loci for bipolar affective disorder and schizophrenia were tested by linkage analysis. METHOD: The pedigree of an index family which had been...
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