Familial resemblance of borderline personality disorder features: genetic or cultural transmission?

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0005334

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Familial resemblance of borderline personality disorder features: genetic or cultural transmission?

PloS one - 1 Jan 2009

Distel Marijn A, Rebollo-Mesa Irene, Willemsen Gonneke, Derom Catherine A, Trull Timothy J, Martin Nicholas G, Boomsma Dorret I

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Borderline personality disorder is a severe personality disorder for which genetic research has been limited to family studies and classical twin studies. These studies indicate that genetic effects explain 35 to 45% of the variance in borderline personality disorder and borderline personality features. However, effects of non-additive (dominance) genetic factors, non-random mating and cultural transmission have...

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Borderline Personality Disorder
Cultural Characteristics
Female
Genetic Variation
Humans
Male
Models, Genetic
Phenotype
Social Environment
Twins

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PMID: 19390632
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005334
PMCID: PMC2669723

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