A 6.9-Mb high-resolution BAC/PAC contig of human 4p15.3-p16.1, a candidate region for bipolar affective disorder.

Bipolar affective disorder (BPAD) is a complex disease with a significant genetic component and a population lifetime risk of 1%. Our previous work identified a region of human chromosome 4p that showed significant linkage to BPAD in a large pedigree. Here, we report the construction of an accurate, high-resolution physical map of 6.9 Mb of human chromosome 4p15.3-p16.1, which includes an 11-cM (5.8 Mb) critical region for BPAD. The map consists of 460 PAC and BAC clones ordered by a combination of STS content analysis and restriction fragment fingerprinting, with a single approximately 300-kb gap remaining. A total of 289 new and existing markers from a wide range of sources have been localized on the contig, giving an average marker resolution of 1 marker/23 kb. The STSs include 57 ESTs, 9 of which represent known genes. This contig is an essential preliminary to the identification of candidate genes that predispose to bipolar affective disorder, to the completion of the sequence of the region, and to the development of a high-density SNP map.

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