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Obsessive-compulsive symptom dimensions in affected sibling pairs diagnosed with Gilles de la Tourette syndrome.
American journal of medical genetics. Part B, Neuropsychiatric genetics : the official publication of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics - 1 Jan 2003
Leckman James F, Pauls David L, Zhang Heping, Rosario-Campos Maria C, Katsovich Liliya, Kidd Kenneth K, Pakstis Andrew J, Alsobrook John P, Robertson Mary M, McMahon William M, Walkup John T, van de Wetering Ben J M, King Robert A, Cohen Donald J
Abstract excerpt
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is an etiologically heterogeneous disorder. Recent factor analyses have consistently identified several symptom dimensions, two of which are associated with increased familial risk for OCD; aggressive, sexual, and religious obsessions and checking compulsions (FACTOR 1) and symmetry and ordering obsessions and compulsions (FACTOR 2). Both of these symptom dimensions are also...
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