Human Population Genetics in the Faroe Islands. A research model and a haplotype study on bipolar affective disorder Arvaeginleikakanningar í Føroyum Kanningarbygnaður og ein kanning innan tvípóla hýrissjúku

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Published Jan 1, 1998
August G. Wang Maria Vang Ole Mors Mette Nyegaard Torben A. Kruse Henrik Ewald

Abstract

Genetic studies concerning psychiatric illnesses have for some years created hope for new insight in mental illness. Isolated populations may offer a new approach. Here, the number of different alleles and mutations may be fewer and therefore more easy to detect.

Such models have been developed for patients in the Faroe Islands. The first illness to study has been bipolar disorder, or manic-depressive illness. Early results concerning chromosome 16 and 18 have especially pointed to two areas on chromosome 18 as interesting.

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