Article
A pedigree series for mapping disease genes in bipolar affective disorder: sampling, assessment, and analytic considerations.
Psychiatric genetics - 1 Jan 1994
Baron M, Endicott J, Lerer B, Loth J E, Alexander J R, Simon R, Sharpe L, Gibbon M, Hasin D, Lilliston B
Abstract excerpt
A series of 57 extended pedigrees with high density of bipolar affective disorder is described. Ascertainment and diagnostic procedures are documented and simulation studies to assess statistical power are carried out. The pedigrees, obtained in the US and Israel, are comprised of 1508 adult individuals with best estimate consensus diagnoses (12-71 relatives per pedigree), 490 of whom (including 401 sib pairs)...
Topics
- Bipolar Disorder
- Chromosome Mapping
- Cohort Studies
- Computer Simulation
- Female
- Genetic Linkage
- Humans
- Lod Score
- Male
- Pedigree
- Phenotype
