Article
Tourette's syndrome and related disorders.
Child and adolescent psychiatric clinics of North America - 1 Apr 2001
State M W, Pauls D L, Leckman J F
Abstract excerpt
The past two decades of research have demonstrated that Tourette's syndrome (TS) is likely to be more genetically heterogeneous than initially appreciated. Nonetheless, important progress toward the understanding of genetic influences in TS has been made by the combination of family and twin studies, segregation analyses, parametric and nonparametric linkage analyses, and association studies. The identification...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Child
- Chromosome Aberrations
- Chromosome Disorders
- Diseases in Twins
- Female
- Genetic Linkage
- Genetic Markers
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Humans
- Male
- Social Environment
- Tourette Syndrome
- Twin Studies as Topic