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An association and haplotype analysis of porcine maternal infanticide: a model for human puerperal psychosis?
American journal of medical genetics. Part B, Neuropsychiatric genetics : the official publication of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics - 1 Dec 2012
Quilter C R, Sargent C A, Bauer J, Bagga M R, Reiter C P, Hutchinson E L, Southwood O I, Evans G, Mileham A, Griffin D K, Affara N A
Abstract excerpt
An association analysis using the Illumina porcine SNP60 beadchip was performed to identify SNPs significantly associated with porcine maternal infanticide. We previously hypothesised that this was a good animal model for human puerperal psychosis, an extreme form of postnatal mood disorder. Animals were selected from carefully phenotyped unrelated infanticide and control groups (representing extremes of the...
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