Heterozygous β-thalassaemia as a susceptibility factor in mood disorders: Excessive prevalence in bipolar patients

Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health

Volumn 1, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Bocchetta, Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN A2;

ARTICLE; BETA THALASSEMIA; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHROMATOGRAPHY; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ELECTROPHORESIS; FISHER EXACT TEST; GENETIC RISK; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; MENTAL PATIENT; OUTPATIENT; PREVALENCE; SAMPLE SIZE; SCHIZOAFFECTIVE PSYCHOSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 33845216877     PISSN: 17450179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-0179-1-6     Document Type: Article

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