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The risk for major depression and bipolar disorder in the offspring of informative parental mating types: a Swedish population-based study.
Psychological medicine - 11 Feb 2026
Kendler Kenneth, Sundquist Jan, Sundquist Kristina, Abrahamsson Linda
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BACKGROUND: Seeking to clarify the parent-offspring transmission of Major Depression (MD) and type I Bipolar Disorder (BD), we examined offspring MD and BD risk in five informative parental pairs: Unaffected x MD, Unaffected x BD, MDxMD, MDxBD and BDxBD. METHODS: We identified 289,637 individuals born in Sweden 1970-1990, followed through 2018, from parents with MD and/or BD identified from Swedish medical...
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