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The relationship between avoidant personality disorder and social phobia: a population-based twin study.

The American journal of psychiatry - 1 Nov 2007

Reichborn-Kjennerud Ted, Czajkowski Nikolai, Torgersen Svenn, Neale Michael C, Ørstavik Ragnhild E, Tambs Kristian, Kendler Kenneth S

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OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to determine the sources of comorbidity for social phobia and dimensional representations of avoidant personality disorder by estimating to what extent the two disorders are influenced by common genetic and shared or unique environmental factors versus the extent to which these factors are specific to each disorder. METHOD: Young adult female-female twin pairs (N=1,427)...

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PMID: 17974938
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2007.06101764

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