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. 2009 Jun;5(6):299-300.
doi: 10.1038/nrneurol.2009.71.

Neuropsychiatric disorders: Shared genetics of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia

James B Potash  1 , O Joseph Bienvenu
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Neuropsychiatric disorders: Shared genetics of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia

James B Potash et al. Nat Rev Neurol. 2009 Jun.

Abstract

Bipolar disorder and schizophrenia share common clinical features, and antipsychotic medications can treat both conditions effectively. An assessment of 73,929 people with bipolar disorder and/or schizophrenia from a Swedish registry found evidence that the two disorders also share more than half of their genetic determinants.

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