Affected-sib-pair analyses of bipolar disorder using data on chromosome 18.

doi:10.1002/(SICI)1098-2272(1997)14:6<641::AID-GEPI15>3.0.CO;2-Q

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Affected-sib-pair analyses of bipolar disorder using data on chromosome 18.

Genetic epidemiology - 1 Jan 1997

Haghighi F, Li W, Fann C S

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Our aim was to analyze the GAW10 bipolar data on chromosome 18, using three well-known affected-sib-pair methods. Analyses were carried out on both individual and combined data sets. In these analyses we defined the affected phenotype to include only individuals with diagnosis of bipolar I. We ob...

Topics

Alleles
Bipolar Disorder
Chromosome Mapping
Chromosomes, Human, Pair 18
Gene Frequency
Genetic Linkage
Genetic Markers
Humans
Matched-Pair Analysis
Nuclear Family
Phenotype
Statistics, Nonparametric

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