Sharma V, Ainsworth P J, McCabe S B, Persad E, Kueneman K M
Mood Disorders Unit, London Psychiatric Hospital, Ontario, Canada.
J Psychiatry Neurosci. 1997 Mar;22(2):132-5.
The authors describe a pair of monozygotic twins with bipolar disorder but with a different course of the illness including age of onset, sequence of episodes, and cycle length. Based on these findings, the clinical course of bipolar illness does not appear to be genetically determined.
作者描述了一对患有双相情感障碍的同卵双胞胎,但他们的疾病病程不同,包括发病年龄、发作顺序和周期长度。基于这些发现,双相情感障碍的临床病程似乎并非由基因决定。