Can single genes matter in a polygenic world?

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 68, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 783-784

  Perlis, Roy H ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHETAMINE; CALCIUM CHANNEL L TYPE; LAMOTRIGINE;

BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BIPOLAR DISORDER; GENE DELETION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC RISK; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MANIA; MENTAL DISEASE; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS;

EID: 77957893000     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2010.09.010     Document Type: Note

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