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Genetic and environmental factors in alexithymia: a population-based study of 8,785 Danish twin pairs.

Psychotherapy and psychosomatics - 1 Jan 2007

Jørgensen Michael Martini, Zachariae Robert, Skytthe Axel, Kyvik Kirsten

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BACKGROUND: The role of genetic and environmental factors for developing alexithymia is still unclear, and the aim of this study was to examine these factors in a large population-based sample of twins. METHODS: The Toronto Alexithymia Scale-20 (TAS-20) was included in a mail survey of 46,418 individuals born between 1931 and 1982 and registered with the Danish Twin Registry. The response rate was 75.3%. A total...

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PMID: 17917473
DOI: 10.1159/000107565

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