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Nonlinkage of bipolar illness to tyrosine hydroxylase, tyrosinase, and D2 and D4 dopamine receptor genes on chromosome 11.
The American journal of psychiatry - 1 Jan 1994
De bruyn A, Mendelbaum K, Sandkuijl L A, Delvenne V, Hirsch D, Staner L, Mendlewicz J, Van Broeckhoven C
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OBJECTIVE: Previous linkage and allelic association studies using DNA polymorphisms, cosegregation of cytogenetic abnormalities with psychiatric illness, and assignment of genes involved in neutotransmitter metabolism suggested that chromosome 11 may harbor a gene predisposing to bipolar illness. The authors examined linkage in the families of 14 probands with bipolar illness, with the candidate genes tyrosine...
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