Article
A trial to apply the concept of genomic imprinting to the manic-depressive illness.
Romanian journal of neurology and psychiatry = Revue roumaine de neurologie et psychiatrie - 1 Jan 2000
Grigoroiu-Serbănescu M
Abstract excerpt
The phenotypic indicators of genomic imprinting were applied to the familial psychopathology data collected through the family history method about 886 adult relatives of 65 manic-depressive probands directly investigated. The probands and their relatives were diagnosed according to DSM-III/DSM-III-R criteria. A first analysis of the age at onset of the BP illness by affective status of the probands' parents...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Bipolar Disorder
- Child
- Female
- Humans
- Male
- Models, Genetic
- Phenotype
- Risk Factors
- Sex Chromosome Aberrations
- X Chromosome