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High Concordance of Bipolar I Disorder in a Nationwide Sample of Twins

2004-10-01

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OBJECTIVE: The few studies of bipolar I disorder in twins have consistently emphasized the genetic contribution to disease liability. The authors report what appears to be the first twin study of bipolar I disorder involving a population-based twin sample, in which the diagnoses were made by using structured, personal interviews. METHOD: All Finnish same-sex twins (N=19,124) born from 1940 to 1957 were screened fo...

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Literature Corpus work: 8762a656-0082-5deb-a69b-87d8a4788fa3
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.161.10.1814

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