Article
Heritability and linkage analysis of personality in bipolar disorder.
Journal of affective disorders - 1 Nov 2013
Greenwood Tiffany A, Badner Judith A, Byerley William, Keck Paul E, McElroy Susan L, Remick Ronald A, Dessa Sadovnick A, Kelsoe John R
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The many attempts that have been made to identify genes for bipolar disorder (BD) have met with limited success, which may reflect an inadequacy of diagnosis as an informative and biologically relevant phenotype for genetic studies. Here we have explored aspects of personality as quantitative phenotypes for bipolar disorder through the use of the Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI), which...
Topics
- Adult
- Bipolar Disorder
- Depressive Disorder, Major
- Endophenotypes
- Family
- Female
- Genetic Linkage
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Genome-Wide Association Study
- Genotype
- Humans
