Anticipation in migraine with affective psychosis.
Anticipation is the term given to the apparent occurrence of an inherited disorder at a progressively earlier age of onset in successive generations. A family of a mother and two children, a 17-year-old girl and a 13-year-old boy, all experienced migraine with affective psychosis. There is a strong genetic predisposition to the psychiatric disorder of affective psychosis along with a dominant pattern of migraine in the family, which suggests a genetic connection between migraine and affective psychosis.
Kneesworth House, Psychiatric Hospital, Herts, United Kingdom, UK. slees@piclibrary.freeserve.co.uk
Fawad
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Kaiser
D000293:Adolescent; D000341:Affective Disorders, Psychotic / Q000235:genetics*; D005192:Family Health; D005260:Female; D005799:Genes, Dominant / Q000235:genetics; D020022:Genetic Predisposition to Disease / Q000235:genetics; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008881:Migraine Disorders / Q000235:genetics*