Gershon E S, Goldin L R
Clinical Neurogenetics Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892.
Genet Epidemiol. 1989;6(1):201-9. doi: 10.1002/gepi.1370060136.
Recent data on chromosomal linkage markers in affective disorders indicate that single locus inheritance is involved in these disorders. The presence of a single locus has not been detectable using segregation analysis on family study data from large populations, possibly because of both heterogeneity and birth cohort and sex differences in diagnostic frequencies.