A population-based heritability estimate of bipolar disorder – In a Swedish twin sample

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 278, Issue , 2019, Pages 180-187

  Johansson, Viktoria ^a,b   Kuja Halkola, Ralf ^a   Cannon, Tyrone D ^c,d   Hultman, Christina M ^a   Hedman, Anna M ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM COUNTY COUNCIL   (Sweden)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bipolar disorder; Epidemiology; Heritability; Inverse probability weitghing; Liability threshold; Registry data; Sex differences; Structural equation modeling; Twin study

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENOTYPE; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; SWEDEN; ADULT; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; REGISTER; SEXUAL CHARACTERISTICS; TWIN STUDY; TWINS;

ADULT; BIPOLAR DISORDER; DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; REGISTRIES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SWEDEN;

EID: 85067172470     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: 18727123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2019.06.010     Document Type: Article

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