Unipolar Relatives in Bipolar Pedigrees: A Search for Elusive Indicators of Underlying Bipolarity

American Journal of Medical Genetics - Seminars in Medical Genetics

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 445-454

  Blacker, Deborah ^a,d   Faraone, Stephen V ^a,b,c,d   Rosen, Amy E ^a   Guroff, Juliet J ^g   Adams, Phillip ^e,f   Weissman, Myrna M ^e,f   Gershon, Elliot S ^g  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS MENTAL HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e The New York Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^f NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^g NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Bipolar disorder; Caseness index; Linkage analysis; Major depression; Phenotype

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIPOLAR DEPRESSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; ONSET AGE; PEDIGREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELATIVE;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; ALCOHOLISM; BIPOLAR DISORDER; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DYSTHYMIC DISORDER; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; MORBIDITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PANIC DISORDER; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 0029745015     PISSN: 01487299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8628(19960920)67:5<445::AID-AJMG2>3.0.CO;2-J     Document Type: Article

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