Article
Family and genetic association studies of bipolar disorder in children.
Child and adolescent psychiatric clinics of North America - 1 Apr 2009
Mick Eric, Faraone Stephen V
Abstract excerpt
The risk of bipolar disorder (BPD) (15-42%) in first-degree relatives of children with BPD are consistently larger than the 8.7% estimate of recurrence risk of BPD in first-degree relatives of adult BPD cases. There have been no family linkage studies of pediatric BPD, but secondary analyses of adult linkage samples suggest that early-onset BPD both increases the strength of associations in linkage studies....
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