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Chromosome 9: linkage for borderline personality disorder features.
Psychiatric genetics - 1 Dec 2008
Distel Marijn A, Hottenga Jouke-Jan, Trull Timothy J, Boomsma Dorret I
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: A large-scale twin study implicated genetic influences on borderline personality disorder (BPD) features, with a heritability estimate of 42%. To date, no genome-wide linkage study has been conducted to identify the genomic region(s) containing the quantitative trait loci that influence the manifestation of BPD features. METHODS: We conducted a family-based linkage study using Merlin regress. The...
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