The biography of psychiatric genetics: From early achievements to historical burden, from an anxious society to critical geneticists'

American Journal of Medical Genetics - Neuropsychiatric Genetics

Volumn 136 B, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 2-7

  Propping, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Association studies; Genetics of affective disorders; Genetics of schizophrenia; History of psychiatric genetics; Linkage studies

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; INHERITANCE; MEDICAL GENETICS; MENTAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

AUTOBIOGRAPHY; EUGENICS; GENETICS, BEHAVIORAL; GENOME, HUMAN; GERMANY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; PSYCHIATRY;

EID: 21444435037     PISSN: 15524841     EISSN: 1552485X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.b.30188     Document Type: Review

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