Article
Genetics of psychiatric disorders methods: molecular approaches.
The Psychiatric clinics of North America - 1 Mar 2010
Avramopoulos Dimitrios
Abstract excerpt
The practice of psychiatry has long suffered from the limited information available on the biological basis of mental disorders. This limitation is now coming to an end. Advances in DNA analysis technologies and in our understanding of the human genome, together with our new knowledge of the properties of the genome and significant efforts toward generating large patient and control sample collections, have paved...
Topics
- Epigenesis, Genetic
- Genetic Variation
- Genome, Human
- Genome-Wide Association Study
- Genotype
- Humans
- Linkage Disequilibrium
- Mental Disorders
- Phenotype
