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Early onset bipolar disorder: possible linkage to chromosome 9q34.
Bipolar disorders - 1 Apr 2006
Faraone Stephen V, Lasky-Su Jessica, Glatt Stephen J, Van Eerdewegh Paul, Tsuang Ming T
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OBJECTIVES: Bipolar disorder (BD) is characterized by manic and depressive states that onset at various times in life. Research shows that early onset forms of BD are associated with a stronger genetic loading for the illness. We hypothesized that using age at onset to look at subsets of BD families in a genetic linkage analysis would prove useful in separating etiologically homogeneous BD sub-groups and...
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