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Chromosome abnormalities, mental retardation and the search for genes in bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.
Neurotoxicity research - 1 Oct 2008
Blackwood D H R, Thiagarajah T, Malloy P, Pickard B S, Muir W J
Abstract excerpt
Genetic factors contribute to schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, and linkage and association studies have been successful in identifying several candidate genes. However these genes explain only a very small part of the total population risk and the psychoses appear to be very heterogeneous with several models of genetic inheritance relevant to different groups of patients, including some cases caused by...
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