Age of onset anticipation in anxiety disorders.

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Anticipation, an increase in severity or a decrease in the age of onset inherent in the transmission of a disease gene from an affected parent to a child, is being increasingly described in human diseases. In this study we searched for possible anticipation in anxiety disorders. Seventeen unilineal families who had anxiety disorders were compared across two successive generations as to age at the onset of anxiety...

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