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Genetic covariance structure of the four main features of borderline personality disorder.
Journal of personality disorders - 1 Aug 2010
Distel Marijn A, Willemsen Gonneke, Ligthart Lannie, Derom Catherine A, Martin Nicholas G, Neale Michael C, Trull Timothy J, Boomsma Dorret I
Abstract excerpt
The patient population of borderline personality disorder (BPD) is heterogeneous; many different combinations of BPD symptoms can lead to a BPD diagnosis. We investigated to what extent the covariance among four main components of BPD is explained by shared genetic and environmental factors. Using an extended twin design, multivariate genetic models were applied to the scales of the PAI-BOR, a self-report...
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