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Mood-incongruent psychosis in bipolar disorder: conditional linkage analysis shows genome-wide suggestive linkage at 1q32.3, 7p13 and 20q13.31.
Bipolar disorders - 1 Sept 2009
Hamshere Marian L, Schulze Thomas G, Schumacher Johannes, Corvin Aiden, Owen Michael J, Jamra Rami Abou, Propping Peter, Maier Wolfgang, Orozco y Diaz Guillermo, Mayoral Fermin, Rivas Fabio, Jones Ian, Jones Lisa, Kirov George, Gill Michael, Holmans Peter A, Nöthen Markus M, Cichon Sven, Rietschel Marcella, Craddock Nick
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OBJECTIVE: The majority of research into functional psychosis has proceeded under the assumption that schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are distinct entities with separate underlying disease processes and treatments. This view has been increasingly challenged in both clinical and genetic studies. Findings in recent association studies at two specific genes suggest that the occurrence of mood-incongruent...
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