Genetic linkage of bipolar disorder to chromosome 6q22 is a consistent finding in Portuguese subpopulations and may generalize to broader populations

American Journal of Medical Genetics - Neuropsychiatric Genetics

Volumn 134 B, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 119-121

  Pato, Carlos N ^a,b,c,d   Middleton, Frank A ^a,b,c   Gentile, Karen L ^b,c   Morley, Christopher P ^b,c   Medeiros, Helena ^a,b,c,d   Macedo, Antonio ^e   Azevedo, M Helena ^e   Pato, Michele T ^a,b,c,d  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

^d GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Genechip; Heterozygosity; Microarray; Non parametric; SNP

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CHROMOSOME 6Q; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DNA MICROARRAY; ETHNIC GROUP; FAMILY STUDY; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; NONPARAMETRIC LINKAGE; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ALLELES; AZORES; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 6; FAMILY HEALTH; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PORTUGAL;

EID: 15744382207     PISSN: 15524841     EISSN: 1552485X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.b.30159     Document Type: Article

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