Article
Genetic and environmental factors in the aetiology of menstrual, premenstrual and neurotic symptoms: a population-based twin study.
Psychological medicine - 1 Feb 1992
Kendler K S, Silberg J L, Neale M C, Kessler R C, Heath A C, Eaves L J
Abstract excerpt
Symptoms during the premenstrual and menstrual phases of the female reproductive cycle were assessed in 827 pairs of female same-sex twins from a population-based registry. By conventional factor analysis, premenstrual and menstrual symptoms were relatively independent of one another and of basel...
Topics
- Adult
- Diseases in Twins
- Female
- Genes, Dominant
- Humans
- Individuality
- Models, Genetic
- Personality Inventory
- Phenotype
- Premenstrual Syndrome
- Psychometrics
- Risk Factors
- Social Environment
- Twins, Dizygotic
- Twins, Monozygotic