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Heritability of obsessive-compulsive symptom dimensions.
American journal of medical genetics. Part B, Neuropsychiatric genetics : the official publication of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics - 5 Jun 2008
van Grootheest Daniël S, Boomsma Dorret I, Hettema John M, Kendler Kenneth S
Abstract excerpt
Recent research has shown that obsessive-compulsive symptoms (OCS) differ remarkably among patients and can be divided into several symptom dimensions. OCS are influenced by genetic components, but it is unknown to what extent these symptom dimensions are heritable. The phenotypic heterogeneity also raises the question to what extent the symptom dimensions are influenced by specific or shared genetic factors. We...
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