Autism, profound mental retardation and atypical bipolar disorder in a 33-year-old female with a deletion of 15q12.

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2788.1990.tb01530.x

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Autism, profound mental retardation and atypical bipolar disorder in a 33-year-old female with a deletion of 15q12.

Journal of mental deficiency research - 1 Apr 1990

Kerbeshian J, Burd L, Randall T, Martsolf J, Jalal S

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A case report of a 33-year-old woman with atypical bipolar disorder, autistic disorder, profound mental retardation and a chromosomal anomaly is presented. This patient is behaviourally similar to a patient reported by Akuffo et al. (1986), who apparently did not have a chromosomal investigation....

Topics

Adult
Autistic Disorder
Bipolar Disorder
Chromosome Deletion
Chromosomes, Human, Pair 15
Female
Humans
Intellectual Disability
Phenotype

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