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Linkage of a bipolar disorder susceptibility locus to human chromosome 13q32 in a new pedigree series.
Molecular psychiatry - 1 May 2003
Shaw S H, Mroczkowski-Parker Z, Shekhtman T, Alexander M, Remick R A, Sadovnick A D, McElroy S L, Keck P E, Kelsoe J R
Abstract excerpt
Bipolar (BP) disorder or manic depressive illness is a major psychiatric disorder for which numerous family, twin and adoption studies support a substantial genetic contribution. Recently, we reported the results of a genome-wide search for BP disorder susceptibility loci in 20 pedigrees. Suggestive evidence for linkage was found in this study at three markers on 13q, representing possibly two peaks separated by...
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