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The genetics of obsessive-compulsive disorder: a review.
Dialogues in clinical neuroscience - 1 Jan 2010
Pauls David L
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Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a serious psychiatric disorder that affects approximately 2% of the populations of children and adults. Family aggregation studies have demonstrated that OCD is familial, and results from twin studies demonstrate that the familiality is due in part to genetic factors. Only three genome-wide linkage studies have been completed to date, with suggestive but not definitive...
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