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Sibling aggregation for psychiatric disorders in offspring at high and low risk for depression: 10-year follow-up.
Psychological medicine - 1 Nov 1999
Rende R, Warner V, Wickramarante P, Weissman M M
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BACKGROUND: A unique way of determining patterns of parent-offspring transmission of risk to affective disorders is to focus on aggregation within sibling pairs. We attempt to extend our previous finding that sibling aggregation is notable for anxiety disorders in a 10-year follow-up of siblings at high and low risk for depression, by virtue of parental diagnosis. METHODS: The sample, which included 173 unique...
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