The heritability of bipolar affective disorder and the genetic relationship to unipolar depression

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 497-502

  McGuffin, Peter ^a   Rijsdijk, Fruhling ^a   Andrew, Martin ^b   Sham, Pak ^a   Katz, Randy ^c   Cardno, Alastair ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIPOLAR DISORDER; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MANIA; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS;

BIPOLAR DISORDER; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DISEASES IN TWINS; FAMILY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; LONDON; MODELS, GENETIC; REGISTRIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 0037629099     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.60.5.497     Document Type: Article

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