Genetics of Bipolar Disorder

Bipolar Disorder: Clinical and Neurobiological Foundations

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 110-123

  Lohoff, Falk W ^a   Berrettini, Wade H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF); Candidate gene studies of bipolar disorder; Genetic epidemiology of bipolar disorders; Genetics of bipolar disorder; Genome wide association study (GWAS) design; Linkage studies of bipolar disorder; Model of risk and protective alleles involved in psych; Search for bipolar disorder (BPD) susceptibility genes; Sequence variation in human genome a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP); Serotonin transporter (5HTT)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885962222     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470661277.ch12     Document Type: Chapter

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