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The influence of genetic factors and life stress on depression among adolescent girls.
Archives of general psychiatry - 1 Mar 1999
Silberg J, Pickles A, Rutter M, Hewitt J, Simonoff E, Maes H, Carbonneau R, Murrelle L, Foley D, Eaves L
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BACKGROUND: The possible causes of greater depression among adolescent girls were investigated by examining variation in the influence of genetic and environmental risk factors among 182 prepubertal female, 237 prepubertal male, 314 pubertal female, and 171 pubertal male twin pairs from the Virginia Twin Study of Adolescent Behavioral Development. OBJECTIVES: To compare the trajectory of depressive symptoms among...
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