Unravelling the genetic causes of bipolar disorder: lessons from rare but highly penetrant variants in very heritable forms of illness

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1063960

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Bipolar disorder is a severe mood disorder affecting over 350,000 Australians, for which the causes remain largely unknown. This project will apply a powerful new technology, exome sequencing, to rare families with highly heritable forms of bipolar disorder to identify specific genetic factors which increase disease risk. A greater understanding of the genetic causes of this illness may eventually lead to improvements in diagnosis, treatment and quality of life of people suffering with this debilitating mental illness.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2014

End Date: 01-01-2017

Funding Scheme: Project Grants

Funding Amount: $705,834.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Neurosciences not elsewhere classified

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

bioinformatics | bipolar disorder | gene identification | genetic mapping | schizophrenia and related disorders

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