Cloning and characterisation of a bipolar disorder susceptibility gene on chromosome 15q

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/510216

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Bipolar disorder is a severe mood disorder, characterised by aberrant mood swings resulting in periods of mania and depression. We need to define more clearly the biological basis of bipolar disorder to improve diagnosis and treatment. Bipolar disorder is highly heritabile allowing the use of genetics to identify the predisposing genes. Our aim is to identify a bipolar susceptibility gene on chromosome 15 and to understand how this gene contributes to the risk of developing bipolar disorder.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2008

End Date: 01-01-2009

Funding Scheme: NHMRC Project Grants

Funding Amount: $347,621.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Neurogenetics

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

aetiology for neuropsychiatric disorders | bipolar affective disorder | functional characterisation | genetic susceptibility | manic depression | molecular neuroscience | mood disorder | positional cloning | susceptibility genes

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