FRC) and National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD) We thank E. Abadie, C. Bulach and M.J. Pereira Gomes for technical assistance. We also thank J.R. Richard. We thank bipolar patients for their participation ,
In addition, families were provided by Dr. Carlos Pato at the University of Southern California and his staff. This work was sponsored by NIMH grants MH52618 and MH058693. Genotyping services were provided by the Center for Inherited Disease Research (CIDR) CIDR is fully funded through a federal contract from the National Institutes of Health to The Johns Hopkins University ,
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