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Genome-wide association study of temperament in bipolar disorder reveals significant associations with three novel Loci.
Biological psychiatry - 15 Aug 2012
Greenwood Tiffany A, Akiskal Hagop S, Akiskal Kareen K, Kelsoe John R
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BACKGROUND: The many attempts to identify genes for bipolar disorder (BD) have met with limited success, which has generally been attributed to genetic heterogeneity and small gene effects. However, it is also possible that the categorical phenotypes used in genetic studies of BD are not the most informative or biologically relevant. Although quantitative phenotypes provide an alternative to categorical...
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