title: A linkage map of chromosome 6 based on 2 large kindreds segregating bipolar affective disorder.
abstract: Twenty-eight markers, both simple sequence repeats (SSRs) and restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs), were genotyped on members of 2 large pedigrees (OOA, BIP167) segregating bipolar affective disorder. Using the multipoint program "build" of CRIMAP and odds of placement 1000:1, a unique sex-averaged map was generated that spans 227 cM and includes 26 markers. The two other markers were placed on the map with a lower likelihood. The female recombination map is larger than the male recombination map by about 80%. Linkage analysis between the polymorphisms and the disease in the OOA screening pedigree did not result in any significantly positive lod scores nor did a non-parametric, identity-by-descent, method generate any significant p-values. BIP167 was analyzed for allele sharing at the simple sequence repeat loci and significant associations were not found. At present we conclude, that the pedigrees under study do not have a major predisposition gene for bipolar affective disorder on chromosome 6 under the diagnostic and transmission models analyzed by the 2 different methods.
authors.affiliation: Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA. gerhard@genetics.wustl.edu
authors.forename: D S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Gerhard
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Labuda
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Marshall
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Otten
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Reich
authors.forename: R D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Todd
mesh_terms: D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000235:genetics*; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D002896:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 6 / Q000235:genetics*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010375:Pedigree