Bipolar disorder is a heritable mental illness with complex etiology. We performed a genome-wide association study of 41,917 bipolar disorder cases and 371,549 controls of European ancestry, which...
[4] Many genes, each with small effects, may contribute to the development of the disorder.[4][8] Genetic factors account for about 70–90% of the risk of developing bipolar disorder.[9]...
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Epigenetics of bipolar disorder is the effect that epigenetics has on triggering and maintaining bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorder is a chronic mood disorder, characterized by manic and depressive episodes. The symptoms of a manic episode include high mood, low sleep, and reduced inhibiti...
A team of researchers, affiliated with UNIST has made a significant breakthrough in the search for the potential root causes of bipolar disorder. The
Objective: In the study of bipolar affective disorder and schizophrenia, there is some evidence suggesting a phenotypic and genetic overlap between the two disorders. A possible link between bipola...
There isn’t a single cause of bipolar disorder. Rather, it’s thought that a combination of factors contributes to the mood disorder. Find answers here.
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It has been conventional for psychiatric research, including the search for predisposing genes, to proceed under the assumption that schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are separate disease entities...
The aim of the investigation was to test genes for predisposition to bipolar affective disorder. Therefore, we studied candidate genes in a sample of unrelated patients (n = 102) and healthy contro...