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Bipolar disorder with comorbid binge eating history: a genome-wide association study implicates APOB.
Journal of affective disorders - 1 Aug 2014
Winham Stacey J, Cuellar-Barboza Alfredo B, McElroy Susan L, Oliveros Alfredo, Crow Scott, Colby Colin L, Choi Doo-Sup, Chauhan Mohit, Frye Mark A, Biernacka Joanna M
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BACKGROUND: Bipolar disorder (BD) is a highly heritable disease. While genome-wide association (GWA) studies have identified several genetic risk factors for BD, few of these studies have investigated the genetic etiology of specific disease subtypes. In particular, BD is positively associated with eating dysregulation traits such as binge eating behavior (BE), yet the genetic risk factors underlying BD with...
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