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Genome-wide association study of 40,000 individuals identifies two novel loci associated with bipolar disorder
21 Jun 2016
Abstract excerpt
Bipolar disorder (BD) is a genetically complex mental illness characterized by severe oscillations of mood and behaviour. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified several risk loci that together account for a small portion of the heritability. To identify additional risk loci, we performed a two-stage meta-analysis of >9 million genetic variants in 9,784 bipolar disorder patients and 30,471...
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