Bipolar Disorder

New evidence for whole genome linkage in bipolar disorder

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, May 2nd, 2004

Affymetrix, Inc., (AFFX) announced that a team of researchers from Upstate Medical University, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), the University of Coimbra, and the Broad and Whitehead Institutes discovered new evidence for whole genome linkage in bipolar disorder.

The study on this complex psychiatric disease is one of the first published using the GeneChip Mapping 10K Array, a higher resolution, easier, and faster alternative to microsatellites for linkage and linkage disequilibrium analyses, according to the company.

The study, slated for the May 2004 issue of the American Journal of Human Genetics, identified two new loci on...

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