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Transmission of symptoms of anxiety and depression in nuclear families.
Journal of affective disorders - 1 Feb 1991
Tambs K
Abstract excerpt
Anxiety and depression symptom scores from the SCL-90 questionnaire were observed in a large sample of nuclear families, and the effects of genes or family environment were estimated. Assuming no environmental transmission from parents to offspring, heritability was estimated at 0.43 for both anxiety and depression scores, and common sibling environment or reciprocal sibling influence explained 19% of the...
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