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Anticipation of age at onset of obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Psychiatry research - 5 Aug 2002
Cavallini Maria Cristina, Albertazzi Monia, Bianchi Laura, Bellodi Laura
Abstract excerpt
Anticipation of age at onset has been observed in several neuropsychiatric disorders. Recent studies have associated anticipation with the presence of unstable DNA and have suggested that trinucleotide repeats may be the main cause in some of these diseases. However, several selection biases may mimic the presence of such an effect. In this study we evaluated the presence of this effect in 40 families of probands...
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