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Genetics of patients with borderline personality disorder.
The Psychiatric clinics of North America - 1 Mar 2000
Torgersen S
Abstract excerpt
An overview of the existing literature suggests that traits similar to BPD are influenced by genes. It is too early to say to what extent BPD is also influenced by genes, but because personality traits generally show a strong genetic influence, this should also be true for BPD. Nonetheless, if the equal-environment assumption were to be violated for MZ and DZ pairs, twin studies may be overestimating genetic...
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