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Possible evidence for a common risk locus for bipolar affective disorder and schizophrenia on chromosome 4p16 in patients from the Faroe Islands.
Molecular psychiatry - 1 Jan 2004
Als T D, Dahl H A, Flint T J, Wang A G, Vang M, Mors O, Kruse T A, Ewald H
Abstract excerpt
Patients with schizophrenia (n=11) and bipolar affective disorder (n=17) from the relatively isolated population of the Faroe Islands were genotyped for 34 polymorphic markers on chromosome 4 in a search for allelic association and haplotype sharing among distantly related patients. When considering bipolar patients only, there was no clearcut support for any region on chromosome 4. The two-marker segment...
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