Genetic Epidemiology of Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorders : a review

ABSTRACT

There is considerable significance for partial genetical overlap between schizophrenia and bipolar disordersbased on family and twin studies. Though the two disorders are treated differently by their diagnosticcategories, recent evidence supports that they are more closely associated. Inspite of considerable overlapin epidemiologic features, there is no specification of the risk factors. Moreover, a significant overlap in thegenes contributing to schizophrenia and bipolar disorder has been revealed by family and twin studies.Keeping all these in view, the findings in various studies from the worldwide are reviewed after a carefulresearch of articles published in Indian journal of psychiatry, Libigenesis, Scihub and Pubmed