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Comparison of clinical characteristics of familial and sporadic obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Comprehensive psychiatry - 1 Oct 2014
Arumugham Shyam Sundar, Cherian Anish V, Baruah Upasana, Viswanath Biju, Narayanaswamy Janardhanan C, Math Suresh Bada, Reddy Y C Janardhan
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BACKGROUND: Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a heterogeneous condition with evidence of familiality in a considerable proportion of patients. A classification into familial and sporadic forms has been proposed to explain the heterogeneity. The current study aims to compare the demographic, clinical and comorbidity patterns of patients with and without a family history of OCD in first-degree relatives....
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