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An analysis of the segregation of restriction fragment length polymorphisms in an Old Order Amish pedigree has made it possible to localize a dominant gene conferring a strong predisposition to manic depressive disease to the tip of the short arm of chromosome 11.
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Egeland, J., Gerhard, D., Pauls, D. et al. Bipolar affective disorders linked to DNA markers on chromosome 11. Nature 325, 783–787 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1038/325783a0
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