Nature Medicine
2, 521 - 522 (1996)
doi:10.1038/nm0596-521
Genetic studies of manic−depressive illnessKay Redfield Jamison
& Melvin G. McInnisDepartment of Psychiatry, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21287-7381, USA Inconclusive results from linkage studies of bipolar illness mirror the complexity of the disease. REFERENCES
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