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Suggestive evidence for association of the circadian genes PERIOD3 and ARNTL with bipolar disorder.
American journal of medical genetics. Part B, Neuropsychiatric genetics : the official publication of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics - 5 Apr 2006
Nievergelt Caroline M, Kripke Daniel F, Barrett Thomas B, Burg Elyssa, Remick Ronald A, Sadovnick A Dessa, McElroy Susan L, Keck Paul E, Schork Nicholas J, Kelsoe John R
Abstract excerpt
Bipolar affective disorder (BPAD) is suspected to arise in part from malfunctions of the circadian system, a system that enables adaptation to a daily and seasonally cycling environment. Genetic variations altering functions of genes involved with the input to the circadian clock, in the molecula...
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