Genetic linkage and complex diseases, with special reference to psychiatric disorders.

doi:10.1002/gepi.1370070103

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Genetic linkage and complex diseases, with special reference to psychiatric disorders.

Genetic epidemiology - 1 Jan 1990

Risch N

Abstract excerpt

Recent linkage findings for psychiatric disorders, in particular schizophrenia, manic-depression, and Alzheimer disease, have raised a number of important conceptual issues regarding the genetic etiology of these diseases, as well as the appropriate interpretation of linkage results in studying c...

Topics

Alleles
Genetic Linkage
Heterozygote
Humans
Mental Disorders
Phenotype
Schizophrenia

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