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Heritability of substance abuse and antisocial behavior: a study of monozygotic twins reared apart.

Biological psychiatry - 15 Jun 1990

Grove W M, Eckert E D, Heston L, Bouchard T J, Segal N, Lykken D T

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Thirty-two sets of monozygotic twins reared apart since shortly after birth (31 pairs and one set of triplets; median age at separation was 0.2 years) were interviewed separately and blindly using the Diagnostic Interview Schedule for presence of DSM-III Axis I psychiatric disorders and antisocial personality. Because the sample was recruited from a nonclinical population, predictably few subjects met criteria...

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Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Alcoholism
Antisocial Personality Disorder
Diseases in Twins
Female
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Phenotype
Risk Factors

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Substance-Related Disorders

Twins, Monozygotic

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PMID: 2364118
DOI: 10.1016/0006-3223(90)90500-2

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