No evidence for the involvement of CAG/CTG repeats from within 18q21.33-q23 in bipolar disorder

European Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 385-388

  Goossens, Dirk ^b   Villafuerte, Sandra ^b   Tissir, Fadel ^b   Van Gestel, Sofie ^b   Claes, Stephan ^b   Souery, Daniel ^b   Massat, Isabelle ^b   Van Den Bossche, Dirk ^b   Van Zand, Karel ^b   Mendlewicz, Julien ^b   Van Broeckhoven, Christine ^b   Del Favero, Jurgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Bipolar disorder; CAG CTG; Chromosome 18; Trinucleotide repeat; YAC fragmentation

Indexed keywords

REPETITIVE DNA; SERINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 18; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MANIC DEPRESSIVE PSYCHOSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

BIPOLAR DISORDER; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, YEAST; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 18; FEMALE; HUMANS; KARYOTYPING; MALE; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

EID: 0034037538     PISSN: 10184813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.ejhg.5200469     Document Type: Article

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