## Abstract Neurotransmission pathways/systems have been proposed to be involved in the pathophysiology and treatment of bipolar disorder for over 40 years. In order to test the hypothesis that common variants of genes in one or more of five neurotransmission systems confer risk for bipolar disorde
Family, twin, and adoption studies of bipolar disorder
β Scribed by Jordan W. Smoller; Christine T. Finn
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 120 KB
- Volume
- 123C
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1552-4868
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