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Cardiff depression study. A sib-pair study of life events and familiality in major depression.
The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science - 1 Feb 2000
Farmer A, Harris T, Redman K, Sadler S, Mahmood A, McGuffin P
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BACKGROUND: An excess of both depression and undesirable life events in first-degree relatives of probands with depression as compared with controls has been reported. This association may have reflected a familial factor in common. AIMS: To examine the familiality of life events and depression and whether there may be a common familial factor influencing vulnerability to depression and the experiencing of life...
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