Familial aggregation of anxiety-related quantitative traits in generalized social phobia: clues to understanding "disorder" heritability?

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Social phobia, particularly the generalized form, is strongly familial. Given the probable continuity from extremes of normative personality (e.g., shyness) to social phobia to personality disorder (e.g., avoidant personality disorder), it is unlikely that social phobia itself, at the level of an Axis I disorder, is transmitted. Rather, it seems more parsimonious, and in keeping with current notions about the...

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