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Psychiatric disorders in the relatives of probands with prepubertal-onset or adolescent-onset major depression.
Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - 1 Nov 2000
Wickramaratne P J, Greenwald S, Weissman M M
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OBJECTIVE: To determine whether the familial risk of major depressive disorder (MDD) varies with either onset, recurrence, or continuity of MDD in adulthood in prepubertal- compared with adolescent-onset probands. METHOD: Seventy-six prepubertal-onset MDD, 59 adolescent-onset MDD, and 78 never psychiatrically ill probands were assessed as children or adolescents and were evaluated 10 to 15 years later as adults,...
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