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Parental concordance for affective disorders: psychopathology in offspring.

Journal of affective disorders - 1 Jan 2000

Merikangas K R, Prusoff B A, Weissman M M

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This paper examines the effects of parental concordance for affective disorders and psychopathology among the 219 offspring of probands with major depression and normal controls. The lifetime prevalence of psychiatric disorders was significantly higher among the spouses of depressed probands as compared to those of normal controls. The spouses of 37% of the normals and 69% of the depressed probands met criteria...

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Adolescent
Alcoholism
Anxiety Disorders
Child
Depressive Disorder
Female
Humans
Male
Mood Disorders
Phenotype
Risk Factors

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PMID: 2975300
DOI: 10.1016/0165-0327(88)90025-0

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