Article
Tourette syndrome: a hereditary neuropsychiatric spectrum disorder.
Annals of clinical psychiatry : official journal of the American Academy of Clinical Psychiatrists - 1 Dec 1994
Comings D E
Abstract excerpt
The objective was to determine if the high frequency of behavioral problems in Tourette syndrome (TS) probands is the result of the pleiotrophic expression of the Gts genes or due to ascertainment bias. It was possible to distinguish between these two hypotheses by comparing the frequency of these behaviors in nonproband relatives with TS to relatives without TS. Twenty behavioral problems were prospectively...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity
- Behavior, Addictive
- Comorbidity
- Female
- Gene Frequency
- Genetic Markers
- Humans
- Male
- Middle Aged