MN blood groups and bipolar disorder: evidence of genotypic association and Hardy-Weinberg disequilibrium.

doi:10.1016/s0006-3223(98)00013-4

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MN blood groups and bipolar disorder: evidence of genotypic association and Hardy-Weinberg disequilibrium.

Biological psychiatry - 1 Sept 1998

Alda M, Grof P, Grof E

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BACKGROUND: MN blood groups have been studied in the past as a genetic marker of biopolar disorder (BD). Several previous studies reported an association of the illness with lower frequency of blood group NN. METHODS: We analyzed distribution of MN blood groups in a sample of 174 patients with BD...

Topics

Alleles
Bipolar Disorder
Genotype
Humans
Linkage Disequilibrium
MNSs Blood-Group System
Schizophrenia

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