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Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.12.1355

Manic-depressive illness and the Xg blood group, a genetic marker located on the X chromosome, showed measurable linkage in successive generations of six families. These data suggest that a dominant X-linked factor is involved in the transmission of manic-depressive illness within the families studied.

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