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Colombo Twin and Singleton Study (CoTASS): a description of a population based twin study of mental disorders in Sri Lanka.

BMC psychiatry - 27 Jun 2008

Siribaddana Sisira H, Ball Harriet A, Hewage Suwin N, Glozier Nick, Kovas Yulia, Dayaratne Dark, Sumathipala Athula, McGuffin Peter, Hotopf Matthew

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BACKGROUND: The Sri Lankan twin registry is one of the first to be established in a developing country, and its design has ensured sampling from a wide range of environmental conditions. It thus has great potential to examine environmental and genetic influences on diverse phenotypes, including psychiatric disorders, in the context of a diversity of environmental exposures, which may not have been fully explored...

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PMID: 18588676
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-8-49
PMCID: PMC2475532

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