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Clinical characteristics of major depression that predict risk of depression in relatives.

Archives of general psychiatry - 1 Apr 1999

Kendler K S, Gardner C O, Prescott C A

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BACKGROUND: Major depression (MD) is both clinically and etiologically heterogeneous. We attempt to relate clinical and etiologic heterogeneity by determining those features of MD that reflect a high familial liability to depressive illness. METHODS: Our sample, 3786 personally interviewed twin pairs from a population-based registry, contained 1765 people with a lifetime history of MD by DSM-III-R criteria, of...

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PMID: 10197826
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.56.4.322

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