Twin studies of psychopathology: why do the concordance rates vary?

doi:10.1016/0920-9964(91)90079-7

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Twin studies of psychopathology: why do the concordance rates vary?

Schizophrenia research - 1 Oct 1991

Walker E, Downey G, Caspi A

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Many current discussions of hereditary factors in psychopathology focus on twin studies as the primary source of evidence supporting the importance of genetic determinants. In summarizing the results of these studies, authors often derive estimates of concordance rates by collapsing across studie...

Topics

Affective Disorders, Psychotic
Diseases in Twins
Humans
Meta-Analysis as Topic
Phenotype
Risk Factors
Schizophrenia
Schizophrenic Psychology
Twins, Dizygotic
Twins, Monozygotic

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