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The structure of genetic and environmental risk factors for fears and phobias.

Psychological medicine - 1 Aug 2014

Loken E K, Hettema J M, Aggen S H, Kendler K S

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BACKGROUND: Although prior genetic studies of interview-assessed fears and phobias have shown that genetic factors predispose individuals to fears and phobias, they have been restricted to the DSM-III to DSM-IV aggregated subtypes of phobias rather than to individual fearful and phobic stimuli. METHOD: We examined the lifetime history of fears and/or phobias in response to 21 individual phobic stimuli in 4067...

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PMID: 24384457
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291713003012
PMCID: PMC4079768

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