Family, Twin, and Adoption Studies of Bipolar Disorder

American Journal of Medical Genetics - Seminars in Medical Genetics

Volumn 123 C, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 48-58

  Smoller, Jordan W ^a   Finn, Christine T ^a  

^a WAC 812 ^*

Author keywords

Adoption studies; Bipolar disorder; Family studies; Genetic epidemiology; Twin studies

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION; BIPOLAR DISORDER; FAMILY; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HEREDITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELATIVE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; TWIN ZYGOSITY;

EID: 0242354132     PISSN: 15524868     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.c.20013     Document Type: Review

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