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The relationship between parental depressive symptoms and offspring psychopathology: evidence from a children-of-twins study and an adoption study.
Psychological medicine - 1 Jan 2015
McAdams T A, Rijsdijk F V, Neiderhiser J M, Narusyte J, Shaw D S, Natsuaki M N, Spotts E L, Ganiban J M, Reiss David, Leve L D, Lichtenstein P, Eley T C
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BACKGROUND: Parental depressive symptoms are associated with emotional and behavioural problems in offspring. However, genetically informative studies are needed to distinguish potential causal effects from genetic confounds, and longitudinal studies are required to distinguish parent-to-child effects from child-to-parent effects. METHOD: We conducted cross-sectional analyses on a sample of Swedish twins and...
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