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Depression spectrum disease, I: The role of gene-environment interaction.
The American journal of psychiatry - 1 Jul 1996
Cadoret R J, Winokur G, Langbehn D, Troughton E, Yates W R, Stewart M A
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OBJECTIVE: This study used an adoption study design to separate genetic from environmental factors in the etiology of depression spectrum disease, a type of major depression characterized by families in which male relatives are alcoholic and females are depressed. The genetic etiology hypothesis of depression spectrum disease proposes that an alcoholic genetic diathesis predisposes to depression in females but...
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